Head of Product Design

SUMMARY

Company Stage: Seed 3 Million Employer Tech Stack: Ruby on Rails, React Company Size: ~6 Engineering Team Size: ~3 Address: Chicago, IL, 60615

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Our mission at Halo is to move science forward. Incubated at the University of Chicago, our platform connects scientists directly with companies that can help bring their innovations to market. We work with the R&D teams at some of the world’s largest companies – including PepsiCo, Bayer, Baxter, Georgia‑Pacific, Reckitt and P&G – on topics ranging from sustainability to human health. Since going live in January 2020, more than 2,000 scientists from 65 countries and 6 continents have joined. We are funded by Village Global, the venture firm backed by Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Reid Hoffman and other tech luminaries.

POSITION OVERVIEW

We are currently in search of our first full-time product designer to lead all design initiatives and help realize our vision as we enter this next phase of growth. You should be passionate about our mission, energized by the challenge and come with a portfolio filled with user‑centered designs that are beautiful, delightful and easy‑to‑use. Read on to learn more about what you’ll do and who you are, check out our reviews on Glassdoor. What you’ll do: Work closely with our founder and engineering team to align product vision and prioritize feature development. Develop a deep understanding and empathy for our target personas and the problems we’re solving for them. Translate product requirements and user stories into elegant end‑to‑end experiences that delight our users. Champion an iterative approach that begins with journey mapping, sketches and rough wireframes and ends with high‑fidelity, interactive prototypes, while incorporating user feedback all along the way. Expand upon our existing design system and work with the engineering team to ensure proper implementation, consistency and scalability. Who you are: You are professionally precocious with a proven track record developing innovative designs that are beautiful, delightful and easy‑to‑use. A can‑do attitude, creativity and drive are more important to us than years of experience. You have experience at a fast‑growing startup and/or a marketplace, professional network or enterprise SaaS business. You know best practices in design and when not to “reinvent the wheel,” but also when best practices should be ignored and new paradigms explored. You're an excellent communicator and can justify design decisions based on qualitative insights or data. You appreciate feedback while not being shy to share your own. You are resourceful, organized and deadline‑driven with a bias towards action. You are adept at using design and behavioral psychology to nudge users down a desired path. You know Figma inside and out. You’re fun (like us) and don’t take yourself too seriously. While technically a job, this shouldn’t feel like work because you're inspired by the mission and energized by the challenge. #J-18808-Ljbffr Hired Recruiters