Product Designer
Spekit
Product, Design
United States
Posted on Sep 20, 2024
Our Mission
Headquartered out of Denver, CO, we’re a small but mighty team on a mission to be the best and easiest way to learn at work.
We imagine a world where learning happens in the flow of work. Where employees maximize the minutes of their lives. Where knowledge is contextual, personalized and instantly accessible. Where learning at work is as easy and joyful as it is in our personal lives. This is the future we’re building at Spekit.
Our Product
Say goodbye to distracted zoom training sessions and lengthy LMS courses your teams will forget. Spekit is the leading just-in-time enablement platform that meets your reps when and where they need it, in the tools they use every day.
Spekit takes all of your training & enablement - for applications, processes, sales playbooks, SOPs and more and embeds that training directly in your employees’ tools & workflows. Think of Spekit as your employee’s digital sidekick that delivers real-time, personalized enablement in their flow of work™. Our unified enablement platform prioritizes three pillars: content, user experience, and flexibility. We focus on delivering the right answer, at the right time – all within a streamlined and intuitive interface. No more information overload, no more hunting for answers. That's Simple, yet Spektacular.
With over $60M in VC funding from Bonfire Ventures, Matchstick Ventures, The Foundry Group, Renegade Partners, The Operator Collective and other top VCs, thousands of employees from scaling startups to Fortune 400 organizations leverage Spekit to onboard new hires, facilitate change management and drive adoption of their tools and applications.
Location: Strongly preferred Denver, CO or the surrounding Denver area. Open to remote US locations only within CA, IL, MA, MD, MI, NC, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, TX, VT, WA, or WI, for candidates with specific industry-related experience. Must be willing and able to travel to Denver at least 2-4x per year.
**We are unable to sponsor VISA's at this time or accept applications from anyone outside of the US**
Your impact:
As a Product Designer at Spekit, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the platform and driving its continued success. Your responsibilities will go beyond traditional design tasks, as you will be expected to provide strategic input and lead design initiatives that align with the overall product vision. You will be the advocate for users, championing their needs and ensuring that the Spekit platform is intuitive, user-friendly, and tailored to meet their real-world requirements.
As a key member of the team, you will have the autonomy to drive change and innovation. Your focus on design quality and user-centricity will set the standard for the entire organization, inspiring others to prioritize the user experience in their respective roles. By championing a culture of continuous improvement, Product Designers will make a lasting impact on the success and growth of Spekit.
What you'll get to do every day:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers and engineers, to define product requirements and create comprehensive design strategies
- Contribute to and lead strategic discussions around the product roadmap and rationale for feature development based on user needs, market trends, competitor offerings, and company goals
- Own the design process from concept to delivery, ensuring high-quality, pixel-perfect designs
- Conduct in-depth user research to understand user needs and pain points
- Evolve our design practice (including our Design System), and ensure we’re working as efficiently as possible. Things change, teams change, goals change.. and we want Spekit’s design practice to evolve with the change
- Communicate design decisions effectively, incorporate feedback, and advocate for a user-centered design approach across the organization
- Keep up-to-date on design trends, best practices, growing technologies, and ways we can incorporate them into Spekit
- Work with an excellent product team:) who are open to growth, collaboration, and design-thinking
What you’ll need to be successful on Day 1:
- 3-4+ years experience working on SaaS product design (not only marketing and brand work)
- Experience conducting user research, speaking with customers, and applying user-centered design principles to inform design decisions
- Experience building and scaling a Design SystemProven track record of leading design initiatives, taking ownership of the design process from concept to delivery
- Extensive experience collaborating closely with product managers and cross-functional teams to develop product strategies and feature rationale
- Demonstrate ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with cross-functional teams
- Experience with accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design.A strong portfolio showcasing a foundation in problem-solving, visual design, and idea generation
- Advanced experience with Figma and user research tools such as UserTesting, Maze, or similar platforms
We've got you covered!
- 100% paid employee Medical, Dental, Vision, and Basic & Optional Life Insurance. Benefits begin on your first day!
- Insurance coverage for the whole family, including flexible spending accounts
- Meaningful equity -- every employee is granted stock options when they walk in the door
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) policy
- Hybrid work environment: Casual and open Denver, CO office with the ability to balance your time working from home
- 10 paid holidays days, sick leave, mental health days, and a 1-week end-of-year company shutdown
- Paid parental leave
- L&D stipend that can be used for learning opportunities at your discretion
- The chance to help build from the ground up. The hires we’re making now are foundational to our growth as a company!
Things we value, culture-wise:
Grit & Growth. We run towards challenges. If something seems unsolvable, it unleashes our persistence, our creativity, and our ability to move through uncertainty to create a solution.
Simple yet Spektacular. We’re in the early stages of building something really great and that requires a lot of hands on deck and a focus on execution. In this journey, we uncover joy in simplicity, obsess over the experience, pivot quickly and always reach for excellence.
Tenacity. The endless pursuit of customer love! We believe in collaboration, transparency, integrity, trust, listening, doing what is right, and always going above and beyond for our team and customers.
Belonging. We strive to build a company culture inclusive of all voices, differences of opinions, and the permission to be our authentic selves. We accept and celebrate what makes us unique and connects us to one another.
Enjoy the Journey. Love what you do and who you do it with! We embrace joy and kindness and we bring our authentic selves to work each day. We seek to share our optimism and compassion with everyone around us.
About the Team
At Spekit, we strive to be the change we seek. And the change we seek is a wealth of diversity in technology and the workplace. As a company with two female founders, we know that diverse and inclusive cultures drive innovative results. We’ve committed as an organization to elevate underrepresented minorities in technology through awareness, partnerships and even hosting our own scholarships to do our part in changing the status quo. If this sounds like the right place for you, we'd love to chat!
