### 🚀 About Compa
At Compa, we are on a mission to build the future of compensation. Our
flagship product has ushered in a new era of real-time compensation market
data. It’s shaken up how industry leading compensation teams approach
benchmarking. Teams like: Airbnb, Netflix, NVIDIA, Stripe, Dropbox, and
DoorDash.
Now, backed by a fresh round of Series A funding, we’re accelerating into
additional product offerings — equity, employees, and skills-based market data
to name a few.
[Read more about our team here](https://www.trycompa.com/about-us).
_Please note: We are an equal opportunity employer and remote-first company.
At this time, we can only support hiring within North America for this role._
### 🎨 About the role
As our first full-time Product Design hire, you will lead product design on
several projects simultaneously. In this role, you will report to our Product
Manager who has an extensive background in both product design & engineering.
You’ll also work closely with our Head of Product & CEO, and Head of
Experience.
We believe great design starts with listening to customers and not a
predefined list of requirements. You’ll take an active role in shaping product
strategy by consistently advocating for user needs. You’ll know, because
you’ll be talking with them.
Good design is much more than how things look — it’s how they work. We
encourage our engineering and growth teams to engage actively in product
discussions. Your facilitation will be crucial in drawing out the best ideas
from across our teams, fostering a culture of innovation, and navigating the
trade-offs necessary to build the _right_ products.
We expect a broad set of design capabilities. As our lead product designer you
will:
* Collaborate with the team on problem discovery and definition
* Uncover and distill user needs / insights through customer interviews and product analytics
* Design and prototype multiple ideas quickly, connecting regularly with users to validate them
* Deliver balanced user experiences that are high quality, easy to use, and ship quickly
* Have a strong point of view on how our product should look & feel
* Evaluate shipped work to ensure they solve our user needs and meet our goals
* Continuously improve our design processes
* Occasionally work on other design-related projects as they come up — e.g. brand, swag, pitch decks, marketing collateral, etc.
### 👋 About you
* An exceptional UI designer, and consider it a core skill within your broader product design capabilities.
* 7+ years in product design roles
* Experience working with remote teams as a design lead on large projects
* Relentlessly iterate and simplify to find the right trade-offs help us ships sooner to users
* Experience in designing data-based UIs & data visualizations is a plus
* Communicate clearly, concisely, and proactively
* Can deftly articulate rationale behind design decisions
* Get things done, are incredibly resourceful, and have an ownership mindset
* Are humble, and give/take constructive feedback well
### 🧰 Our Design Tech Stack
* Figma
* Notion
* Linear
* Storybook
* Mixpanel
* Slack
### Include the following in your response to be considered
* What company’s product design do you admire and why?
* A link to product UI that you’ve designed