Senior Product Designer

Overview:

Senior Product Designers at Weedmaps are talented, motivated team players with a deep understanding of user-centered design, and a passion for creating things people love.

In your day-to-day, you will identify, evaluate, and improve critical user journeys, making data-backed decisions about priorities and roadmap. Weedmaps is a data-first company and all projects and initiatives are backed by research and thoroughly tested. You must be able to communicate your ideas with crystal clarity in the form of verbal and written communication, user flows, wireframes, hi-fi comps, rapid and rich prototypes, and proper documentation. As a senior resource you will be expected to understand the business’ needs and goals, and tightly align your and your team’s efforts with those needs. You will also be expected to lead medium-sized projects.

Come join a team of designers and creatives passionate about fostering a culture of creativity and collaboration while shipping industry-shaping products. 

The impact you'll make:

• Help foster a culture of creativity throughout the company
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and other teams to identify needs, define requirements, discover solutions, execute, and ship
• Keep business needs and corporate goals front-of-mind, even as you design world class experiences
• Distill complex problems into discrete components with actionable solutions
• Maintain, guide, and push the boundaries of our design system
• Prototype and test interactions and user experiences objectively and without bias
• Use both qual and quant data and analytics to make informed decisions
• Actively participate in group critiques by both providing and receiving thoughtful, constructive feedback
• Effectively communicate your ideas at the right time, with the right tools, and in the right formats
• Create design artifacts including but not limited to: information architecture diagrams, user flows, user stories, use cases, research plans, wireframes, high-fidelity mock-ups, and interactive prototypes

What you've accomplished:

• 5+ years of professional experience with end-to-end product design
• A strong portfolio showcasing examples of human-centered designs, with clear indication of your specific contributions
• Ability to lead medium-to-large sized projects
• Experience designing and conducting usability tests
• Experience using analytics to make informed, data-driven decisions
• Experience working with design systems
• Strong work ethic, sense of accountability, autonomy, and self-management
• Capable of taking full ownership of the work assigned
• Crystal-clear communication skills

Bonus points:

• Knowledge of front-end coding concepts such as HTML5 / CSS / JavaScript
• Experience creating design systems
• Experience with Design Thinking and Design Sprints
• Knowledge of and passion for the cannabis industry

Our Benefits:

• 100% paid employee monthly Medical, Dental and Vision premiums AND 80% paid dependent monthly premiums
  • HMO (California residents only) and PPO option offered through United Healthcare
• Company-paid $50,000 in Basic Life/AD&D (Accidental Death and Dismemberment) coverage
• 401(k) Retirement Plan: 100% match on the first 1%. 50% match from 2-6% of employee contributions
• 3 weeks PTO (accrued) and 5 sick days (immediate)
• Supplemental, voluntary benefits
  • Kindbody (family planning/fertility) including up to $10,000 towards cash-pay services
  • Goodly (Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings) including a company contribution of up to $1,000/year 
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
  • Voluntary Life Insurance
  • Critical Illness
  • Accident Insurance
  • Short- and long-term disability
  • Pet Insurance
• Paid parental leave
• During current work-from-home:
  •  Reimbursements for home office setup and monthly WiFi

Our Culture:

• 11 company-paid holidays
• Catered lunch and snacks provided while working in the office
  • Snack boxes sent straight to your door during work-from-home
• Casual work environment, read no fancy clothes required, but you are free to dress to the nines!
• Monthly virtual happy hours
• Quarterly all-hands meetings

Weedmaps is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. We are looking for the smartest and most passionate people who want to join our team and develop the services, systems, and marketplaces that will serve the marijuana industry in the decades to come. Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify.

Applicants may be entitled to reasonable accommodations under the terms of the ADA and state/local laws.  Please inform us if you need assistance participating in the interview process.

About Weedmaps:

Founded in 2008, WM Technology is a leading technology and software infrastructure provider to the cannabis industry, comprising a B2C platform, Weedmaps, and B2B software, WM Business. The cloud-based SaaS solutions from WM Business provide an end-to-end operating system for cannabis retailers. WM Business’ tools support compliance with the complex, disparate, and constantly evolving regulations applicable to the cannabis industry. Through its website and mobile apps, WM Technology provides consumers with the latest information about cannabis retailers, brands, and products, facilitating product discovery and driving engagement with our retail and brand customers.

WM Technology holds a strong belief in the power of cannabis and the importance of enabling safe, legal access to consumers worldwide. Since inception, WM Technology has worked tirelessly, not only to become the most comprehensive platform for consumers, but to build the software solutions that power businesses compliantly in the space, to advocate for legalization, social equity, and licensing in many jurisdictions, and to facilitate further learning through partnering with subject matter experts on providing detailed, accurate information about the plant.

Headquartered in Irvine, California, WM Technology supports remote work for all eligible employees. Visit us at www.weedmaps.com.

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