Job Description
About the Design team at Gorgias
Currently, Gorgias Design team has 6 designers and we're excited to welcome 3 more soon. Our designers are based in various time zones, including Paris, New York, LA, and the UK. While each designer primarily focuses on their respective product team, closely collaborating with PMs and engineers, we also make sure to prioritize a strong connection within the Design team as a whole.
We have regular meetings such as Design Ops Weekly and Design Critiques, and we're continuously experimenting with new methods of asynchronous collaboration. This helps us to ensure consistency in our work and to foster mutual support and mentorship among all team members.
About the Platform tribe
Being a member of a wider design team, your primary focus will be dedicated to the Platform tribe. It is a fundamental group that plays an important role in enabling the rest of the product team to develop exceptional features. The team is composed of multiple squads, and we focus on projects related to in-product analytics, billing, product-led growth, and account management. Moreover, we are responsible for maintaining an in-product app store with over 100 apps and integrations, including Shopify, Instagram and WhatsApp.
As a Product Designer, you will be involved in every stage of the product building lifecycle, from discovery and ideation to prototyping, validation, and impact measurement. Being a part of Gorgias means being part of a fast-paced and high-growth company. We value agility, concise execution, and precision. Honesty and candor are highly valued among our team, and we encourage open sharing and receiving of feedback to continuously improve both our products and operations.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other designers to understand the unique needs of shoppers and merchants and align design solutions with business goals.
- Conduct user research to inform design decisions and to ensure that they meet user needs and are accessible.
- Contribute to our design system by building and documenting new components, ensuring their scalability.
- Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that provide a consistent and cohesive user experience.
- Promote collaboration and constructive feedback within the design team. Foster relationships with other designers and gain knowledge of their projects.
- Utilize problem-solving skills to analyze and break down complex problems. Facilitate discussions with cross-functional teams to enable effective decision-making and the creation of impactful design solutions.
- Continuously evaluate and iterate designs based on internal and external feedback.
- Stay up-to-date with global design trends and tools, and proactively seek out opportunities to improve our design process and share your knowledge with the team.
Your skill set
- 3-5 years of product design experience and a portfolio that showcases your skills in UX and visual design and demonstrates quantifiable impact on past products you've worked on.
- Proficiency in designing and prototyping using Figma.
- Great stakeholder management and project management skills: communicating project updates, bringing up risks and actively seeking feedback.
- Experience in conducting user research using various research methods and writing research reports.
- Experience working on projects with sufficient level of designs ownership, encompassing the entire process from ideation to implementation, launch, and measuring business results.
- Growth mindset, proactively seeking knowledge, and being willing to continuously improve your skill set.
- Experience in designing for data-heavy SaaS products (a great plus).
Perks and Benefits
- ๐๏ธ 5-week vacation (We follow each country's appropriate PTO Laws)
- ๐ค Paid sick leave
- ๐งธ Paid parental leave (16 weeks)
- ๐ป MacBook Pro
- ๐ฝ๏ธ Daily lunch stipend ($15/ per workday)
- ๐ฅ Health insurance with up to 100% of premiums paid for employees - Blue Shield & Kaiser (CA only) explore our plans
- ๐ต๐ผ Retirement: Gorgias contributes to your 401k 100% of the first 3% of deferred W-2 income, 50% of the next 2% of deferred W-2 income.
- ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ Get up to $700 to set up your workstation at home (working from home should feel breezy)
- ๐ Get up to $2000 of learning material per year (includes books, courses, training sessions that are easily identified and linked with your job scope. This also covers individual coaching!)
- ๐ฅฐ Every quarter, we organize an online company-wide summit to discuss where weโre going and strengthen social bonds. Once per year we organize offsite team retreats and company retreats! (Here is the photo album from our last company retreat in Mexico in 2022, when we were a total of 200 people!)
Why join us?
๐ We're among the fastest-growing startups in the eCommerce ecosystem
๐ฆ We've built an extremely efficient go-to-market engine
๐ฅ Work with a talented team you'll learn a lot from
๐ Join a company where automation and good & clean data are core beliefs shared by all
๐ฅ Here is an interview with one of our team memberโs experiences from our most recent company retreat to Cancun!
More cool things to know about Gorgias... ๐
- Raised our Series C for $30M in 2022: TechCrunch Article โฌ ๏ธ
- We went from 0 to 10,000+ merchants using our platform since 2016
- We have a 4.7 rating on Glassdoor & 4.7 Comparably culture score
- What our customers are saying: apps.shopify.com/helpdesk#reviews
- Other positions: gorgias.com/about-us/jobs
- Discover the ">Gorgias Platform
- Learn about our Compensation Policy
Compensation Range: $129.6K - $143.3K
