Lead Designer - Vimes

Phaselaw; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative startup is seeking a Lead Designer to shape the future of government welfare solutions. This role offers the chance to work in a dynamic environment, contributing to impactful projects that streamline processes for social services. You'll design user-friendly interfaces and collaborate closely with a small team to turn concepts into reality. With a focus on creativity and problem-solving, you'll help build scalable design elements for a product that makes a real difference in people's lives. If you're passionate about design and eager to tackle challenges in a fast-paced setting, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Equity

Performance Bonus

Relocation Compensation

Monthly Stipend for Meals

Health Insurance

401K Match

Qualifications

• Extensive UI/UX design experience, especially in government or social impact.
• Strong skills in Figma and Adobe Illustrator for mockups.

Responsibilities

• Design mobile and web apps for large-scale government products.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to align designs.

Skills

UI/UX Design

Figma

Adobe Illustrator

Wireframing

Prototyping

User Research

Collaboration

Problem Solving

Job description

Lead Designer - Vimes

ABOUT US

Vimes is building the universal operating system for government welfare, starting with child protection: our cross‑platform crisis‑intervention software replaces the paper trails and traditional email threads that slow schools, hospitals, police, and social‑services agencies. In 12 months, we launched a nationally adopted child‑risk metric, published anacademically validated white paper, and cut average response times from 40days to 12hours for six pilot jurisdictions covering 320K citizens. Having recently closed a $2.2M pre-seed, we envision becoming the universal system of record for all of public safety, becoming a central hub for data and communications for all vulnerable populations.

We have a pipeline of 30+ cities, 15 states, and may cross $10M revenue barrier in the next 12 months. As we scale 10x and we’re looking for a lead designer to join us.

THE ROLE

We’re looking to bring a lead designer, for an in-person position in New York City or Bay Area (open to hybrid or remote but MUST LIVE IN U.S.).

As a small team, we work in a highly collaborative environment and you'll have the opportunity to participate in every stage of the company as we scale, reporting to the CTO/CEO.

️WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR (non-exhaustive list)

• Extensive UI/UX design experience, plus for those coming from government tech, police tech, social impact, etc.

• Strong skills developing detailed mockups on Figma/Adobe Illustrator

• Ability to take a feature from spec to completion (wireframing, UI, data/backend, prototyping/QA, future reworks/iterations)

• Have a startup-y background and love bringing products from concept to reality: the 0 → 1 phase.

• Proven ability to design complex systems with clear, simple user interfaces.

• Ability to learn new technologies quickly

WHAT THINGS YOU (MIGHT) DO

• App. You’ll be working with the team to design our mobile and web app, laying the foundations for a large-scale government and social impact product.

• Designing easily-scalable design elements.As we build out our product, you get to make important choices and lay the foundations of our design theme and function.

• Solving interesting technical problems.Bring your full creativity to solve any technical challenges along the way.

• Collaborate with engineers, executives and other stakeholders to align designs with business goals.

• Product. Help out with user research and product management duties as needed.

COMPENSATION

You will be joining a small-team, high-velocity startup and thus will be compensated competitively. Some terms:

• Competitive salary + offers equity

• Performance bonus

• Relocation compensation (if moving to the Bay Area / New York)

• Monthly stipend for meals

• Health insurance + 401K match

In any case, we hope you’ll join us because you find a fast-paced production velocity exciting and fulfilling, and you want to help us prove what’s possible.