Job description
Who are we?
We’re Bee Talents, an IT recruitment agency that has been helping clients from all around the world in building their technical teams since 2015. Today, we would like to invite you to participate in the recruitment process for Zypsy.
Founded in 2018 in San Francisco, Zypsy is a design studio dedicated to founders. They’re a global team of thinkers, designers, developers and entrepreneurs, passionate about shaping the next wave of design-forward companies and bringing exceptional experience from top firms in design and tech.
Zypsy is a design team first, helping founders create and launch standout products. Their vision is to design tomorrow’s most valuable companies with today’s most exceptional humans. Now, they invest in them through Zypsy Capital - an investment fund that supports startups with design expertise and financial capital.
They’ve collaborated with numerous founders and launched to market over 40 new ideas that resonated deeply with users. Together, their clients have seen their valuations rise by $2B+. They’re excited to continue partnering with exceptional people to create the next wave of breakthrough products.
We’re looking for a Contract Senior Product Designer, who will help them develop top-quality digital products for new and upcoming startups.
What Zypsy can offer you:
🎯 Role: Contract Senior Product Designer
💰 Salary: 40-50 USD/h B2B
⏱ Working hours: depending on the client with 4 hours of overlapping with US so you can still work mostly in the Polish timezone
👩💻 Working mode: 100% remotely
🇬🇧 Speaking language: English on a B2/C1 level as we work in multinational environment.
The biggest challenge in Contract Senior Product Designer at Zypsy will be: working in a highly variable environment and full end-to-end ownership of your project(s) - but it’s also the thing that drives us! On a daily basis, you will be responsible for conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, wireframes and prototypes. You will communicate directly with the startup founders and facilitate product design meetings & core product decisions.
Responsibilities:
- partnership with product managers, developers, external stakeholders and other members of the design team to define user problems,
- facilitating research to identify design problems and discover new opportunities through conducting UX research initiatives,
- articulating clearly a design rationale to peers and stakeholders, while always addressing technical feasibility and business goals,
- designing purposeful solutions that are relentlessly focused on solving real user problems,
- helping to establish, promote and support human-centred design principles, best practices and accessibility standards,
- contributing to the ever-growing design system and visual design language,
- providing guidance and mentorship to other designers to help us continue to foster an inclusive and collaborative team environment.
What you’ll need?
- min. 6 years of experience working as a Product Designer (or similar role), ideally in fast-paced SaaS companies, working alongside developers and product managers,
- a portfolio showcasing a strong understanding of interaction and visual design in addition to product strategy and design thinking,
- a deep understanding of building scalable design solutions that are inherently accessible,
- experience working in a collaborative and lean/agile environment (startup, product, agency, studio),
- exceptional written and verbal communication skills,
- experience using Figma,
- building design systems.
What you’ll get?
- salary of 40-50 USD/h B2B,
- partnership with a start-up with all advantages of such type of a company: autonomy, ownership, flexibility, fast decisions and being close to the client in the fast-changing environment,
- cooperating with founders of client companies that can positively your career,
- being both a part of a local Polish team and a part of a global company - still with around 10 AM - 6 PM working timezone!
Sounds interesting? Send us your CV and your portfolio and let’s talk! :)
PS Recruitment stages:
1. 30-minutes initial Google Meets with Recruiter Marta KK from Bee Talents.
2. 30-minutes Zoom meeting with Vivian, COO from Zypsy.
3. 30-60-minutes Zoom meeting with Darek, Director of Product Design from Zypsy (process design, presentation about best project, Q&A - going deeper into experience).
4. Task to solve at home (more details later)
5. Decision/Offer call with Vivian, COO and Darek, Director of PD.
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