US Senior Product Designer

Runna; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary reviews

23 days holiday/close

Private health insurance

Macbook

Running watch

Equity

Job summary

Runna is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our cross-functional product and engineering team in the US, with flexibility for remote work or 2–3 days in Harvard Square, Boston.

Lead end-to-end design from research to live features for iOS, Android and smartwatch integrations, collaborating with founders, PMs and customers.

Requirements: 4+ years of commercial experience, strong Figma and user research skills, English proficiency; salary $120,000–$150,000 plus equity.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of commercial design experience.
• Figma advanced proficiency.
• User research methods proficiency.
• English proficiency: intermediate.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional team and customers to discover and prioritise user needs.
• Conduct user testing sessions and apply feedback to your work.
• Improve Runna's design research and testing processes with other designers and PMs.
• Advocate for design within the company.
• Design customer journeys for complex problems.
• Create user flows, prototypes and wireframes in Figma.
• Coordinate with developers for handover and ensure great interaction.
• Develop and maintain the design library in Figma.

Skills

Figma

User research

User experience

English

Experience 4+ yrs

Job description

Who we're looking for

We are looking for talented, creative and positive team players to join our highly-skilled Cross-Functional Product and Engineering Team to help design new features for our iOS, Android and Apple watch applications and third-party integrations (Garmin, Strava, Coros, Suunto etc). You will work closely with our founders, engineers, PM and most importantly customers, to help shape the future of Runna, who will be there to support you all the way along this exciting journey. As a Senior Product Designer your role will to be involved in the full end-to-end product delivery from research to going live. You will be reporting directly to Dom (Co-Founder and CEO). You'll also be managing one of our incredible Product Designers based in New York and working closely with our amazing UI/UX Design Lead who's based in London. We are continuing to hire out our design function in the US as part of our overall US expansion - we want designers that (1) really understand our target user and market (2) are able to effectively conduct user research with our target users, on their time zone and (3) understand and are users of our app, our partners, competitors and the wider US running industry. As such, we are currently only open to US-based applicants for this role! Finally, Runna is growing incredibly quickly and we reinvest all of our profits into building a better product. As such the design team will be scaling quickly over the coming months and years and we’d expect you to play a pivotal role in this; from getting involved with hiring to helping set the design culture and practices!

What experience we're looking for

If you don't quite meet all of the below skills, we’d still love to hear from you as we might be able to tweak the role slightly or offer you a position better suited for you. We’re also open to more senior and more junior candidates for this role.

Responsibilities

• Working with the whole team as well as our amazing customers to discover and prioritise user's needs across their journey
• Conduct user testing sessions and incorporate feedback into your work
• Help improve Runna's user research and user testing processes, working with the other designers and PMs
• Be a voice for Design within the company
• Work with Product and create solutions / customer journeys for complex design problems
• Illustrate design ideas using user flows, prototypes and wireframes in Figma
• Collaborate with developers to handover designs and ensure great interaction
• Continue to iterate and develop our design library in Figma

Bonus points if you:

• Have worked with consumer/start-up/mobile apps before
• Have worked with React Native teams before and understand the design implications
• Have worked on smartwatch interface design
• Have an interest or background in fitness, running or health
• Have spent hours reading case studies from https://growth.design/

We offer a salary of $120,000 - $150,000 (depending on experience), plus equity of Runna stock options. We'll be growing our package of benefits over time. We currently offer:

Benefits and options

• Flexible working - either remote OR work 2-3 days in our office in Harvard Square, Boston
• Salary reviews every 6 months or whenever we raise more investment
• 22 days of holiday plus bank holidays
• A workplace pension scheme
• A brand new Macbook, a running watch of your choice, and anything else you need to do your best work
• Private health insurance
• Enhanced family care policy (3 months fully paid leave when a new Runna joins the family, fertility support & other benefits)
• An hour slot each week (during work time) to do a Runna workout

Requirements

• figma (advanced)
• User Experience (intermediate)
• user research (advanced)
• 4+ years of commercial experience
• Formal education: nice to have
• English (intermediate)

Tech stack

• figma
• User Experience
• user research
• UX/UI-Design
• iOS Development