Product Designer
Catalant is a venture backed software company changing the way the world works. We have two business lines - a Marketplace and a SaaS product. Our Marketplace product is disrupting the $250b consulting industry by connecting the largest companies in the world to over 70,000 high-end freelance business experts and boutique consulting firms for on demand work. Our SaaS product helps companies organize strategic work streams and dynamically connect the right people (including employees inside the company and experts from our marketplace) to the right work at the right time.
We’ve been one of the fastest growing companies in Massachusetts, and ended 2020 with consecutive record breaking quarters. 2021 will be our best year yet and we’re investing heavily in building the strongest team around.
Our growing product design team is looking for an exceptional Product Designer to create functional and engaging experiences that empower individuals and companies to transform how their work gets done. As a Product Designer at Catalant, you’ll work side-by-side with product management and engineering, applying your visual and interactive design skills to complex user problems and business needs. You’ll directly shape the future of our product, designing cross-platform to support our strategic vision and business objectives. You love your craft, and are ready to contribute to the success of both startup and enterprise-level digital products.
Our team values diversity in experience and backgrounds—we do our best work when we create space for different voices and perspectives. Whatever unique experiences or skill sets you bring, we look forward to learning from each other.
What you'll do
- Drive the design and success of our marketplace and solution platforms by contributing to all phases of a project, from wireframes to visual design, prototyping, and testing
- Work closely with Product team to identify opportunities for improvements and new features
- Work closely with Engineering team to gain technical insight and ensure product builds are reflective of the vision across multiple platforms
- Conduct user research activities to understand the needs of our users and bring those insights to life through our product
- Maintain and evolve our style guide, product design, documentation, and information architecture approach
- Collaborate in setting hypotheses and goals to use live product metrics and customer feedback in your design process with support from analytics and user research
- Use strong communication skills to present, articulate and defend design recommendations and decisions within small cross-functional teams and to executive stakeholders
- Actively seek out new ways to help grow and shape our creative output and culture
- Play an ongoing role in developing guidelines and design systems, and advocate the consistent use of design standards across experiences
What you'll bring
- 2+ years of professional experience in product design, interaction design, or service design leading projects for shipped consumer products
- Deep knowledge of design thinking along with interaction,and visual design standards/best practices for responsive web and SaaS Platform
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and can thrive in the changing pace of a startup
- Ability to communicate complex ideas, goals and problems in a way that is accessible even to those unfamiliar with the project; while leading group design conversations, keeping them on-track and focused on delivering actionable next steps.
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally in a team environment to deliver high-quality work while advocating for visual design, brand, and user experience consistency
- An online portfolio that demonstrates your visual skills and strategic thinking
- Be a good human
Benefits
At Catalant, we strive to offer a work environment where employees can bring however much of their full, authentic self as they desire. With this in mind, we are happy to offer our employees:
- Flexible paid time off
- Twelve weeks of paid parental leave regardless of how you choose to grow your family
- Generous health insurance coverage as well as optional vision and dental
- 401k to save for retirement
- Pre-tax commuter and flexible spending accounts
- A lifestyle spending account to be used towards health & wellness, home office set up, cell phone, commuting, and learning & development
- Catalant sponsored membership to Headspace
In response to COVID-19, our headquarters in Boston is not open for interviews at this time. We are hiring and conducting all interviews and onboarding virtually. Until further notice, new (and current) team members are able to work from the office permitting they are vaccinated and follow safety guidelines.