We have a complex customer product that requires thoughtful design and UX to make the complexity manageable. In addition, our product includes a lot of data visualization to provide insights and analyses to our customers. Hence a continued focus on providing the best interface in the space is important to set us apart and help our customers simplify their daily revenue management tasks.
If you’re interested in building a great user experience and taking designs from exploration to production, then this job is for you. We expect you to be a tech-savvy professional, who is curious about new digital technologies and aspires to exceptional computational design.
Responsibilities
- Help discover problems, needs, opportunities
- Clearly define the above & share via written documentation & in-person
- Use design tools such as Figma to explore and mock up new designs
- Use React to implement your designs as prototypes and in production
- Collaborate with other designers and engineers on the team
- Optimize applications for maximum speed
- Implement unique and insightful data visualizations
- Release, analyze, and gather insights
- Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
Requirements and skills
- 6+ years of experience in front-end engineering
- 5+ years design experience
- Experience with React, CSS.
- Experience with Chakra, Redux, Ruby on Rails, and Next.js is beneficial.
- Experience with design in the context of a data-heavy product, e.g. in the financial industry
- Facility with programming codes, knowing what is easy and possible, hard and possible, or difficult and impossible for now
- Practice being a humanist technologist who asks questions about what's being made, who's making it, and why
- Combine Design X Tech X Business to make thoughtful, well-informed decisions for the product, team, and business as a whole
- Prototype ideas quickly in the medium the product will be used
Perks and Benefits:
- Competitive salary and equity (Base salary range of $185,000 - $200,000 depending on experience)
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for each US employee
- Fidelity 401k available for each US employee
- Unlimited PTO
- And…more!
About Us:
Wheelhouse is a fintech platform for the $500B+ flex rental space. Most specifically, we enable short & mid-length stay providers with 1 to 100,000+ listings to earn 20%+ more from their rental properties.
In 2021, our target customer segment voted our platform “Innovation of the Year” at the Data & Revenue Management conference. This sentiment is shared by our customers, as evidenced by our platforms low churn and rapidly growing ARPU. In 2022, we closed a significant funding round, with participation from many of the best tech, travel & real estate investors. We’re lucky to have a long runway, low burn, and rapidly growing revenue.
As a team, we enjoy shipping products our customers love, on time or ahead of schedule, while balancing work/life & having fun together. We’re best described as transparent & collaborative, and we strive to set our teammates up for success - both professionally & personally. We’re a remote-first, work-anywhere, and “yes - you should make time for that adventure/vacation” company, who believes that “healthy hustle” is the key to good growth.
We’re experienced business & product builders who have founded multiple companies together, know our category extremely well, and recognize how rare/special it is to be perfectly positioned around a big opportunity with a very strong cross-functional team.
We’d be eager to say hello and learn more about you!