Lead Product Designer ( UI/UX)

ActiveHours; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ActiveHours, located in Palo Alto, CA, is actively looking for a Lead Product Designer who is passionate about revolutionizing employee access to their pay. You'll reshape the ActiveHours experience and deliver polished designs across platforms including iOS, Android, and our website.

The ideal candidate has over 4 years of experience creating customer-centric mobile designs, excels in user experience, and has mastery in design tools like Illustrator and Photoshop. This is a unique opportunity to join a small, dynamic team facing exciting challenges.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in customer-centric mobile design.
• Strong skills in creating and innovating user experiences.
• Expertise in high-fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes.

Responsibilities

• Redesign the ActiveHours experience across platforms.
• Influence product specs and execute high-polish designs.
• Communicate design rationale effectively to stakeholders.

Skills

Customer-centric mobile designs

User experience innovation

Information architecture

High-fidelity mockups

Excellent graphic design

Oral and written communication

Design tools mastery

Prototyping tools proficiency

Pixel-perfect production assets

Collaborative team player

Tools

Illustrator

Photoshop

Job description

We're a passionate team of 20 people who want to improve the financial lives of hourly and shift workers. Our innovative Android and iOS apps enable people to receive their pay on-demand when they have completed their work instead of making them wait until the end of an arbitrary pay period. If you can call an Uber car in 5 minutes, why should you have to wait two weeks to get your pay? We make our money on tips, not fees and interest, which ensures that we stay focused on delighting our customers. Our founder is a successful repeat entrepreneur with deep financial services expertise and we've lined up some of the best venture capital firms in New York and Silicon Valley behind our vision.

Job Description

ActiveHours is seeking a Lead Product designer to help us revolutionize employees' access to their pay. By getting in on the ground floor, you will reshape the ActiveHours experience across the board, from branding to native product design, and from strategy to execution.

As a qualified candidate, you love to crystalize each experience down to its essence. You use animation and custom interactions sparingly, but forcefully, and have the technical chops to provide prototypes demonstrating your ideas. You ride the line between art and pragmatism with grace and style, seeking perfection while remaining open to lessons learned through iterative releases.

Create a unified personality for ActiveHours on iOS, Android, activehours.com, as well as both marketing and support emails.

Influence product specifications and execute design work with a high level of polish.

Know how to present your work effectively, and articulately communicate design rationale to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 4+ years shipping customer‑centric mobile designs
• Ability to innovate and delight through carefully crafted user experiences across all platforms
• Ability to generate comprehensive information architecture, wireframes, high‑fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes for iOS, Android, web, and email
• Excellent graphic design skills (layout, typography, color)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Mastery of design tools: Illustrator, Photoshop, or equivalent (pick your tools!)
• Mastery of one or more prototyping tools
• Ability to generate pixel‑perfect production assets
• Ability to work well on an ego‑free, highly collaborative, and cross‑functional team
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, dynamic startup environment

Additional Information

We are a small team and growing!!! Lots of technical challenges and career advancements!