About Remote
Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.
We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.
If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!
What this job can offer you
This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Senior Product Designer - Pay Ecosystem. Senior Designers at Remote are highly experienced and are masters of their end-to-end design craft. They autonomously own design for a dev team or feature area while supported by their larger team.
The payroll team helps build experiences that empower our customers to pay anyone, anywhere safely and compliantly. This is one of our most strategically important and high profile teams at Remote. Here you will be challenged as a designer in the best way - this role is filled with fascinating, complex and meaty challenges that require primary research, robust strategy, innovative concepts and simple but brilliant execution.
You'll be working with a thriving cross-discipline team of designers, developers, and PMs, and with a talented, close-knit team of product designers who will inspire you and support your growth. The design team is a thriving and growing community of designers who are maturing Remote’s end-to-end design practice.
You can also check out our blog post on How to land a Design role at Remote, and the Youtube link to our Ask Me Anything event.
What you bring
- An individual contributor with an impressive portfolio of product design work demonstrating your maturity across the end-to-end design process, not only showcasing your ability to identify and understand problems to solve, but deliver delightful, well-crafted user interfaces that have tangible impact on users.
- Persuasive communication skills that help you build strong narratives around your design work, provide direction and guidance to others, as well as collaborate effectively with peers and stakeholders - with fluent written and spoken English.
- A systems thinker who champions the importance of holistic thinking, is comfortable in a high-growth, fast-paced environment and has a work history that demonstrates an ability to autonomously take ownership of design for complex domains and/or multiple projects.
- Strong evidence that you are an effective cross-functional collaborator with your product and engineering counterparts and are able to work effectively to build consensus and resolve debates and drive the business towards impactful outcomes.
- You are an engaged member of your design organization whose focus is not only delivering quality user experiences, but help shape our design culture and ways of working.
- Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex B2B SaaS solutions for industries like HRTech, FinTech etc.
- Candidates that embody and demonstrate our core values at Remote.
- While it is not required to have experience working remotely, it is considered a plus.
Key responsibilities
- Influence strategy for your product team, identifying opportunities for impact in collaboration with your stakeholders and cross-functional peers.
- Apply the right research methodology at the right time, helping you and your team empathise with customer challenges and develop an intimate knowledge of the problem being solved.
- Leverage AI prototyping as a tool for exploring conceptual ideas, iterating with your cross-functional peers and these bringing ideas to life with functional flows.
- Craft high-fidelity user interfaces with flair at velocity, expressing your maturity in interaction design and maintaining our exceptional bar for quality, while delivering at speed.
- Lead compelling vision initiatives for your team and domain, influencing and visualising the direction-of-travel and opportunities for innovation.
- Solve problems holistically with systems-thinking, understanding the ripple effect of your design decisions and ensuring scalability, while avoiding introducing unnecessary variation to our information architecture and experiences.
- Communicate persuasively, weaving storytelling narratives around your work to bring peers on the journey with you, while triaging their critique and feedback efficiently and effectively.
- Collaborate transparently in the open, proactively sharing your work with the wider organisation to solicit frequent feedback and identify opportunities for cross-domain collaboration.
- Advocate usage of our design system Norma to its best advantage, understanding when to follow it strictly or deviate, improve and contribute back.
- Champion our experience principles by ensuring simplicity, usability, scalability and accessibility in all user experiences we deliver.
- Be an active member of our cross-functional culture by advocating quality, shaping our ways of working and providing peer support, critique and feedback to others.
Practicals
- You'll report to: Senior Product Design Manager
- Team: Design
- Location: Anywhere in the World
- Start date: As soon as possible
Application process
- Interview with Recruiter
- Interview with Senior Design Manager
- Case study presentation (asynchronous)
- Interview with design and product team members
- Executive interview
- Bar Raiser interview
- Offer + Prior employment verification check (Read more at remote.com/employment-checks)
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Benefits
Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters: - work from anywhere
- flexible paid time off
- flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- mental health support services
- stock options
- learning budget
- home office budget & IT equipment
- budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces
How you’ll plan your day (and life)
We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.
You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.
If that sounds like something you want, apply now!
How to apply
- Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
- If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.
We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.
Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.
