Staff Product Designer

Logistics is one of the single largest industries in the world. Globally, logistics is an $8-$12 trillion dollar industry and in the US alone, ~$2 trillion, representing ~10% of GDP. A single percent of improvement drives profound change to every corner of the world --- from the cost of our goods, to the livelihoods of local communities, to even the impact on our environment. To reshape the industry, at TruckSmarter, our focus is first on truck drivers. Trucks move 71% of freight in America (~$800bn annually) & the trucking industry represents nearly 6% of the full-time jobs in the country. If you look around you, every item has sat on a truck at one point on its journey to you. However, despite the industry being one of the greatest levers of innovation throughout history, it is still deeply fragmented & structurally misaligned. Our mission is to fix that—and we need your help.

The Role

We're looking for an experienced Staff Product Designer to partner with our team across a wide range of projects that will help grow our company and cement our brand as a leader in the space.

As a Staff Product Designer you will own product and design initiatives from end to end. You'll help raise the bar for creativity and craft meaningful brand experiences that are engaging, thoughtful and reflect TruckSmarter's values as a human-centered technology company. If you want to be a part of a place where you can own and drive product design within a fascinatingly complex industry, then this is the place for you!

Working model: TruckSmarter offers an in-office collaborative culture. This role is based out of our downtown San Francisco office, and requires in-office presence three days per week (typically Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays).

What Excites You

1. A collaborative startup where you have full autonomy over your work, and can make direct impact on both the users and the team.
2. Solving problems with pragmatic yet sophisticated solutions --- you know how to strive for simplicity without compromising the more complex use cases.
3. Shaping the culture and leading the team through recruiting, mentorship, and establishing best practices.
4. Comfortable with giving feedback to and gathering feedback from other designers across product and brand.
5. Work cross-functionally with the team to shape the product from strategy, definition to execution, validation, and future iterations.
6. Producing high quality work from wireframes and user flows to pixel perfect design with delightful interactions.
7. Empathizing with the user and being an advocate for user experience.

What Excites Us

1. 8+ years experience as a user experience designer or similar design role.
2. Proficient in Figma (or similar tool such as Sketch. We use Figma exclusively at TruckSmarter).
3. Practice empathy, and understand how your designs will impact users.
4. A problem solver who loves a challenge.
5. Don't hold your biases too closely and understand when to compromise.
6. Works well in a collaborative environment, and are willing to show your work frequently.
7. Bonus points if you understand how your work will translate into code and how your design decisions affect engineering.
8. Additional bonus points if you can code and aid in smaller, front-end development efforts.

What Success Looks Like

1. Craft -- build experiences that delight developers and end users.
2. Ownership -- advocate for projects and solutions that you believe in and see them through to production.
3. Leadership -- level up your teammates by providing mentorship and guidance.

We Offer

1. Competitive Pay.
2. 401k.
3. Unlimited PTO.

We would love to have you be a part of something special, and are excited to review your application.