Andela

Andela

Product Designer

North America · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 132 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptReactCSSTailwind CSSDevOpsRESTData EngineeringFigmaDesign SystemsAccessibilityProduct StrategyResearchLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • As the Staff Product Designer, you are a visionary leader who shapes how millions of people experience the future of work.
  • You will tackle Andela's most ambiguous product challenges, working across high-level business strategy and deep user empathy.
  • As an Andelan, you'll serve as a role model for the rest of the company.

Responsibilities

  • Experience Architecture: Lead the design of complex, multi-sided marketplace flows. You will be responsible for the "big picture" logic of our Talent Cloud, ensuring seamless transitions between client hiring needs and talent career growth.
  • Design Systems Governance: While you aren't writing the code, you are the "Source of Truth" for our design language. You will oversee the evolution of our component library to ensure accessibility, consistency, and a world-class aesthetic.
  • Data-Informed Innovation: Use qualitative research and quantitative data to validate your hypotheses. You should be comfortable navigating complex data dashboards to find the "why" behind user behavior.
  • Mentorship & Craft Excellence: Elevate the output of the design team through rigorous design reviews, workshops, and the introduction of new methodologies.
  • Design Mentorship: Act as a "Force Multiplier." You will lead design sprints, conduct high-level critiques, and mentor Senior Designers to help them reach the next level of their careers.
  • Elevate the output of the design team through rigorous design reviews, workshops, and the introduction of new methodologies.
  • Act as a "Force Multiplier." You will lead design sprints, conduct high-level critiques, and mentor Senior Designers to help them reach the next level of their careers.
  • 10+ years in Product Design, with a significant track record of delivering high-impact B2B, SaaS, or Marketplace products.

Requirements

  • You can think through edge cases, global localization, and complex state management without needing to see it in code first.
  • The Stack: Experience of Figma paired with professional-grade proficiency in React.js, TypeScript, and CSS-in-JS (or Tailwind).
  • 3+ years in a marketplace, platform, or multi-sided network business model
  • 2+ years managing or mentoring direct reports.
  • Experience of Figma paired with professional-grade proficiency in React.js, TypeScript, and CSS-in-JS (or Tailwind).

Nice to have

  • MBA or advanced degree preferred.
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Skills

  • As one of the world's largest talent marketplaces, Andela gives companies greater flexibility to quickly deploy qualified technologists.
  • Lead the design of complex, multi-sided marketplace flows.
  • Expert-level Figma skills, including advanced prototyping, auto-layout, and library management.

Company info

  • Think about the feedback your peers typically give you - if it usually sounds like the below, we want to hear from you.
  • You break silos across teams.
  • You put the company and mission first above your team alone.
  • As an Andelan, you'll serve as a role model for the rest of the company. Think about the feedback your peers typically give you - if it usually sounds like the below, we want to hear from you.
  • One team mentality: You break silos across teams. You put the company and mission first above your team alone.

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