About Skylight
Skylight is a technology startup based out of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Our mission is to make technology that brings families together. We make consumer products, like Skylight Frame and Skylight Calendar, that are loved by millions of people across the globe. Our founders are former venture capitalists and serial entrepreneurs, who have scaled this business to $100M+ in annual revenue while being completely bootstrapped. We think often about the millions of smiles we are able to put on our customers’ faces each day, and it fills our hearts with purpose. That’s why we have been working hard to expand our team and invent, so that we can continue to bring the magic of Skylight to millions more loved ones throughout the world.
At Skylight, we have three values that guide our work and help us manage the business day to day: Autonomy, rigor, and care. These values show up early and often and help guide the work we do and the way we work.
About the role
As our Senior Product Designer, you'll steer the creation, validation, and launch of the next set of Skylight products while also lifting the bar on the quality and lovability of features used by millions of people daily.
Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you will:
- Become an expert in both our customers and our products
- Contribute significantly to roadmap discussions, prioritization and scoping
- Work with Product and Engineering from feature concept through completion
- Own the end-to-end design (interaction, visual, etc.) across multiple features and projects
- Develop creative solutions, validate with customers & data and make recommendations
- Push to keep solutions simple, scope tight and always focus on what truly matters
- Provide implementation guidance to engineers and ensure features launch at the highest quality
- Design new experiences or layouts that evolve visual systems
Requirements
Minimum qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in end-to-end consumer-facing mobile-first product design.
- A portfolio of work that demonstrates a breadth of visual and interaction design skills and a proven impact on business metrics
- Commitment to craft and product excellence
- Humble, collaborative, and service-oriented approach to your career
- Scrappiness and bias towards action
Preferred qualifications
- Experience delivering 0-1 products from concept to launch.
- Background in designing social networking mobile apps and consumer subscription apps.
- Experience with software design incorporating hardware components.
- General e-commerce design experience and designing for TV screens.
- Passion for connecting people and facilitating meaningful relationships.
- Leadership in product direction and strategic thinking.
- Demonstrated use of user research and data in your product design portfolio.
- Location: Los Angeles or San Francisco
Join Skylight and play a pivotal role in shaping products that bring joy to millions of families worldwide. Apply your design expertise and be part of a collaborative, innovative team committed to excellence
Benefits
Benefits
Our competitive compensation package includes:
- Competitive Salary + Equity Package
- 401K matching
- Wellness, learning, and home-office budgets
- Health, Dental & Vision Medical Plans
- Tremendous autonomy to set the direction of your work
- Unlimited PTO
- Company holidays on the first Friday of every month (Except November & December)
Equal opportunity employer
Skylight is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you’re the best person for the job, we want you on board!
For Colorado-based candidates, the range being offered for this role is $150K-175K based on experience and for California-based candidates, the range being offered for this role is $150K-175K based on experience. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of this law.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
