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Product Designer

Smartcar is on a mission to make it easy for everyone to use the apps and services they love with their car. We build developer-friendly APIs which makes it easy for businesses to integrate their products with vehicles of any brand using a single integration.

Founded in 2015, Smartcar has raised $36M from Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, and Energize Ventures. We are now the leading developer platform for mobility businesses across North America and Europe serving amazing customers including brands like British Petroleum (BP), Turo, NRG, and more.

Innovative mobility companies use our API platform to verify mileage, issue digital car keys, manage EV charging, monitor fleets, and much more.

As Smartcar’s Product Designer, you will have the opportunity to partner with our product and engineering teams to create innovative and consistent designs throughout Smartcar’s visual experiences. You will be the owner of product design at Smartcar.

Feel free to check out what our interview process looks like.

This role is remote within California. We’d love for you to join us!

Key Responsibilities

Own Smartcar’s product design process end-to-end
Quickly produce concepts and prototypes before transforming into high fidelity detail
Transform research and ideas into new product features that delight our customers
Design the detailed interactions and workflows needed to bring new features to life
Utilize data to help inform design decisions and test new designs.
Balance short-term needs with evolving the vision and long term view
Organize and maintain our database of digital assets and design mocks
Work closely with our founders, product, and engineering teams to review product design and implement the design into code
Build personal and organizational empathy towards our app developers and consumers
Contribute to our company strategy and decision-making around our products

Who You Are

You have 2-5 years of experience as a product designer and have worked with in-house design teams
Proficient building designs in Figma
Experience designing cross-platform web-based interfaces
Ability to design and ship products that have a technical user base
Ability to quickly understand product requirements
Self-starter with a strong opinion and intuition for design
Demonstrated love for an iterative design process and for collaborating closely with engineers and marketers
Excellent communication and writing skills
Strong attention to detail

Manager

Sahas Katta, Co-Founder & CEO

Your Team

Roshan Srinivasan
Travis Joseph

Compensation and Benefits Package

Base salary determined by years of experience: $115,000 - $135,000
Equity
Remote work within California
Health, Dental and Vision covered at 90% for all plans and 80% coverage for dependents, which amounts to approximately $11,000 a year
401K matching at 4%
Unlimited PTO and 10 days of paid holidays
Wellness stipend of $50 a month
Cell phone and Internet stipend of $50 a month
$300 yearly learning and development stipend
$350 work-from-home stipend
8 weeks of 100% paid parental leave with a 1-week half day ramp back time and a 5 week Freshly subscription
10 days of paid bereavement leave

Sponsorship

We do not currently support any new sponsorship opportunities or sponsorship transfers for this role

Recruiter For This Role

Jackie Leary

Smartcar is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to reach out, in confidence, to mathilde@smartcar.com with how we can help make your interview process as comfortable as possible and how we can provide reasonable accommodations.

Smartcar Glassdoor Company Review

4.5

Smartcar DE&I Review

3.5

CEO of Smartcar

Sahas Katta

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By Smartcar

Empowering developers to build the future of mobility. While software has disrupted every other industry for more than a decade, innovation in the mobility space is still surprisingly slow. Today, 80% of cars sold in the U.S. feature built-in int...

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LOCATION

Hybrid, based in Mountain View, CA

DATE POSTED

January 26, 2023