Overview
Do you take big bets? Do you love designing beautiful products that users love? Are excited to build the next big tech company, that helps bring the world closer together? Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Aeone. Aeone (a software startup) seeks to hire a Founding Product Designer, to work on various products, including our first products: Creatr and Veucast. As one of the founding team members; this role will give you an opportunity and exposure to lead, own, design, and help build to state-of-the-art product innovations in the creator economy and SaaS space from the ground up.
Aeone’s vision is to bring the world closer together and create genuine value for society, by building an ecosystem that empowers creatives and builders—to build safer spaces online, build strong communities, enhance their livelihoods, and to solve the world's biggest problems. Aeone has two products: Creatr (a SaaS product in the Creator Economy) and Veucast (a social media platform), with more in the pipelines. Our products are available on iOS, Android, Web, and Desktop. We have ambitious goals to scale growth and adoption of our services around the world and delight our customers with a great product.
The long-term vision of the Aeone Product team is to be the voice of the customer and design products that solve our customer’s problem and that our customers love; by designing user-friendly products/services and working with cross-functional teams to ensure that these solutions are realized.
Key Job Responsibilities
As a Founding Product Designer, design both functional and appealing features that address our clients’ needs and help us grow our customer base—more specifically, you will start off owning web and mobile design for Creatr and work on other company-owned products as need arises. This opportunity will allow you to experience full product life cycle, develop deep business acumen and hone your decision-making skills.
At Aeone, you will work on the founding team, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions, and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.
What we are looking for: You are an entrepreneurial product thinker, with proven experience designing and launching creator, SaaS, or consumer-facing products at scale, and clients that connect to them. You are a data-driven leader, with experience establishing and measuring impactful KPIs. You are a natural collaborator, with experience aligning multidisciplinary, cross-functional teams. You are an independent, problem-solver that can confidently lead teams through ambiguity. You are customer obsessed and excited to build products for the creative. You are excited about taking on more responsibility and an opportunity to scale your career. You enjoy building client applications and know that great software not only does the job, but does it with a great flow and look and feel. You love building software that makes people say “wow, that is amazing” and “I did not know you could do that” and “I want to kiss whoever built this”. You love working with a smart, talented team members because you know that makes you better.
Build
Build mobile & web app product(s) design from 0 to 1
Championing the role of human-centered design throughout our organization;
Build comprehensive design system with scalable components and document all design methodologies and ideas
Conducting user research to gain a deeper understanding of users’ needs and behaviors, as well as and apply insights to guide design decisions.
Creating and understanding user personas, as well as their drivers
Performing usability testing to uncover issues in designs;
Designing user-flows (user journey maps), storyboards, wireframes, Hi-Fi comps, and prototypes—ensuring high usability and on-brand visuals.
Execute a wide range of other design tasks, from marketing website and collateral to motion and video design.
Designing and conducting user interviews to test your hypothesis, wireframes, prototypes, or other product features and ideas.
Developing cohesive and consistent user experiences for a variety of products.
Collaborating with engineers and other designers to implement design.
Crystallize and uphold our brand identity across all internal and external design communications
Contributing to pattern libraries, style guides, and other guideline documentation.
Much more...
Own
Report directly to the founder
Own product design from start to finish
Lead and mentor the design team you help build
Conduct user interviews and demos, to help build or improve the product(s)
Define
Set the design culture, branding, velocity and priorities from day 1
Ensure design is integrated into all aspects of the business and culture and aligns with our values
Grow
Help recruit, interview, and hire the early design team
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of interaction design experience with knowledge to define how an experience should behave based on understanding people's needs.
3+ years of experience building and shipping applications or software at the level of whole features/products across a variety of platforms.
3+ years of experience in prototyping.
2+ years of visual design experience with proficiency in typography, desktop/mobile UI, color, layout, iconography and aesthetic sense.
3+ years of strategic product thinking with the experience of understanding product goals, identifying opportunities, and making decisions based on the impact to people and the company.
Highly experienced (expert-level) in Figma
Knowledge in clearly and succinctly articulating the goals of your team.
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Strong collaboration skills that allow you to work with both technical and non-technical individuals
Demonstrated ability to work independently, autonomously, and cross-functionally
Preferred Qualifications
5+ years of interaction design experience with knowledge to define how an experience should behave based on understanding people's needs.
5+ years of experience building and shipping applications or software at the level of whole features/products across a variety of platforms.
5+ years of experience in prototyping.
5+ years of visual design experience with proficiency in typography, desktop/mobile UI, color, layout, iconography and aesthetic sense.
5+ years of strategic product thinking with the experience of understanding product goals, identifying opportunities, and making decisions based on the impact to people and the company.
Knowledge in clearly and succinctly articulating the goals of your team.
A bachelor’s degree (any field, as long as you have experience in UI/UX Design)
You will be a great fit if
You are an experienced Product Designer, who is adoptable.
Willing to commit at least 10 hours per week before the seed round closes.
You are able and willing to learn and do both front-end and backend engineering, when needed.
You are here for the long-haul, and believe in Aeone's vision and its products.
You are a creator or have an interest in the creator economy, social media, and Extended Reality (AR/VR).
You are metric, result, and data-driven; you are able to analyze and back up your ideas with data. You take ownership of decisions you make.
You have a backbone and communicate your ideas even when it’s difficult to do so.
You understand there are no defined roles at early-stage startups, and that you may be asked to perform tasks outside this role or job description.
You are willing to do what it takes, including taking on tasks that are not “sexy” or outside your perceived job “scope”, to make the product and company successful. Example: “you may be asked to respond to customers, or attend a conference, or pitch at an event, or travel”.
You are a self-starter; you anticipate business needs and don’t wait to be told what to do.
You thrive in an ambiguous environment; you understand that you won’t always be told everything, and you would need to take initiative and figure things out.
You are willing to sometimes go past work hours or work on weekends to address business needs (i.e. writing emergency code or fixing emergency bugs on the weekend).
You value documenting all your processes.
You value being a part of something bigger than yourself, and building products that make a global impact.
What’s in it for you?
2% equity. Please note that this position starts off paid in equity only, until we raise our Seed Round.
You can start part-time and remote, until we raise our Seed Round.
Competitive salary when we raise our $2.9M Seed Round.
Work alongside very smart people, which will propel you level up!
Opportunity to build and impact the company's Design team from scratch
Opportunity to impact the company's culture as a Design leader.
Be a part of something bigger than yourself, and help build a global software company from scratch.