Product Designer: Carb Manager

Design, Product Design
United States
June 11, 2024
Full time

Job Description

Description

We are looking for a qualified full-stack product designer to help us implement the best holistic user experience and inspire millions of users to take control of their health. The qualified candidate will be involved at every stage of the user experience design process, from research to implementation, and everything in between. This individual will also demonstrate a significant degree of drive, originality, craftsmanship, and a proactive attitude. 

Company Overview

We’re Carb Manager, and our mission is to promote and support our users to form healthy sustainable habits and relationships with food. Carb Manager is the #1 health and fitness app for people on low-carb, Keto, and other macro-focused diets, available on iOS, Android, and the web. Altogether, we’ve helped over 12 million people lose weight and achieve their health goals since 2010. Carb Manager is a top health and fitness app in the iOS App Store, with a 4.8/5 rating with over 500,000 five-star reviews.

Our people think we are an amazing company to work for because:

  • The benefits of a work-from-home lifestyle
  • The reach and impact of an established brand
  • The energy and dynamism of a startup
  • The stability of a profitable company 
  • A creative, entrepreneurial, friendly, and supportive culture
  • The ability to make a real, positive impact on millions of lives

The Role

We are looking for a Full-stack Product Designer who is passionate about solving complex problems and building creative, high-impact solutions that change the lives of our users. You’ll work closely with fellow designers, engineers, PMs, and leadership to understand problems and opportunities, prototype and test solutions, and implement a wide variety of beautiful and functional experiences for our users.

This work sits on one of our product teams that are fully empowered to drive measurable value creation for our users and the business. You will use your talents to elevate the experience and visual designs of both existing and new products through user research, strategic design roadmapping and story-telling, and shipping original and high-impact design solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Own design and collaborate with your team members for a specific product experience
  • Co-own the solution discovery work with the product manager on your team 
  • Contribute to team OKR planning and A/B testing planning
  • Create high-performance and iteratively improving designs that deliver value to users and hit business goals. This includes creating UX flows, wireframes, prototypes, and pixel perfect UI
  • Lead and participate in user research work and design sprint workshops 
  • Navigate between greenfield exploration and tactical designs
  • Present designs to leadership and cross-functional teams, with clear design rationale
  • Create graphic designs for marketing and branding initiatives

Requirements

  • 3+ of years experience designing world-class, consumer-facing (B2C) apps and web experiences
  • An impressive portfolio demonstrating your problem solving process, ability and work that drives results
  • An expert in Figma, encompassing everything from prototyping to the creation of intricate interface designs and the utilization of design systems.
  • Experience working closely with PMs and engineers, and being our users advocate and voice when creating a feature
  • The ability to deeply discern and systematically unpack complex problems, identify opportunities, and turn them into design roadmaps
  • Strong work ethic, strong communication and collaboration skills and the ability to prioritize multiple work streams in a fast-paced agile environment
  • A solid understanding of the Adobe suite, especially in Illustrator and Photoshop to assist with graphic design requirements

You are a good fit if…

  • You believe in craftsmanship and create elegant and compelling designs
  • You insist on first forming a deep and original view on the problem before diving into a solution
  • You thrive best when you are given ownership of a design outcome and proactively involve yourself in defining the requirements, not just translating them into design
  • You facilitate and draw the best design ideas from current and potential users, and cross-functional teammates
  • You know which details matter at each stage of the product life cycle, and how to involve engineers at the right time to deploy with velocity and high quality
  • You have a deep sense of the company’s business model and what will move the needle
  • You are able to navigate between setting strategic design objectives to tactical implementation of the best design solutions
  • You stay up to date with the latest design trends and practices
  • You care about helping others on your team and at Carb Manager thrive

Benefits

  • Work from anywhere
  • Competitive salary
  • Medical/dental/vision coverage
  • 401(k) for U.S. employees
  • Paid holidays, vacation day and generous personal days
  • Paid health and wellness benefits

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