Member of Design Staff
- Location
- New York, NY (Hybrid)
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Department
- Design
- Compensation
- $355K – $545K, Offers equity
Benefits. A competitive package designed around the needs of every single employee. Coverage is total.
Compensation is set at the top 1% of the market for the role and location. Final offer amounts are determined by a single factor.
About the role
Califa is hiring a Member of Design Staff to take the company’s most ambiguous problems from a blank page to production. This is a senior individual-contributor role with no direct reports and significant influence.
Members of Design Staff work across the full product, from research through final visual design and the engineering handoff, and often past it. The role sets the standard the rest of the design staff is measured against, including the Other Member of Design Staff.
The right candidate has shipped a lot, is still shipping, and would like to ship more.
What you’ll do
- Lead the company’s most ambiguous projects end to end, without a brief.
- Conduct research, define the problem, and design the solution, in that order and then again.
- Produce production-ready designs, specs, and prototypes.
- Pair with engineers through implementation and sign off on every screen before release.
- Mentor the Other Member of Design Staff by example and in review.
- Contribute components, patterns, and documentation to the design system.
- Present work to the executive team and to customers.
What we’re looking for
- 10+ years of product design experience at companies with more than 10 million users, and at companies with fewer than 10.
- A portfolio of at least 30 shipped features, each with before-and-after metrics.
- Expert in Figma, with working fluency in React, TypeScript, and the command line.
- Experience running user research programs end to end, including recruiting, moderating, synthesis, and the resulting roadmap changes.
- Has designed for web, iOS, Android, desktop, watch, and at least one platform not yet released.
- Writes product specs that engineering ships without a follow-up question.
- Comfortable presenting to executives, customers, and a room of other designers, unprompted.
- Able to take direct feedback and to deliver it, in both cases immediately.
Nice to have
- A degree in human-computer interaction, computer science, or fine art.
- Published writing on design that other designers cite.
- Experience with design tooling, including building it.
- Accessibility certification.