At Automatic, we work hard to earn a place in our customers’ lives. We believe the key to that is creating thoughtful and elegant products that solve real problems, especially problems they don’t even know they have yet. Leading the design of Automatic is key to that mission.
This is an rare opportunity to lead and grow a design practice at a company working to make driving safer, more efficient, and more fun. You’ll work in and further develop a strong design culture at Automatic, where design works closely with our engineering and business teams. This is a unique opportunity to develop the design practice at a fast-growing company dedicated to creating impactful user experiences and transforming a giant industry. This is one of the things that makes working here so rewarding.
Responsibilities:
- Work with our head of product and design team to explore and design new product features and flows using user-centered design methodologies like structured brainstorming, sketching, prototyping, user testing, etc.
- Work with our user researcher to develop user questions and synthesize feedback from users about your designs. Incorporate feedback into subsequent iterations.
- Be responsible for crafting a consistent visual design language across all Automatic materials (apps, web, packaging, marketing, etc.) that furthers the Automatic brand.
- Coordinate with the engineering team to make sure designs are implemented as intended. Hear their ideas for how designs might change given implementation constraints.
- Hire designers and lead/mentor them as the company grows.
Requirements:
- Mastery of user experience design practice and principles spanning the entire product development process, from concepting to implementation to measuring the design’s success in the field.
- Exquisite design taste and attention to detail.
- Deep experience designing elegant and appropriate user experiences, interactions, and user flows for modern mobile software products.
- Exceptional communication skills; the ability to clearly explain design decisions and process to anyone in the company.
- Ability to get feedback and buy-in from non-designers about design direction and features.
- Success leading and growing a team of designers to create modern mobile software products.
- Skilled at talking with engineers to assure that product features are implemented as designed.
Nice to haves:
- Strong visual interface design skills.
- Expert knowledge of design and prototyping tools like Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Omnigraffle, etc.
- Experience designing mobile software for iPhone that’ve shipped.
- Something we’ve overlooked but you think would make a difference at Automatic. Let us know.
Automatic is a small team of smart and talented professionals working to transform people’s relationships to their cars and driving. We’re low on ego and honor individuals who go above and beyond to make a difference in the product and in the lives of their teammates.
