

Director of UX and Design
You’ll be the first UX/UI hire at NotPublic, playing a critical role in shaping our design principles and the resulting products.
About Us
We’re a fast-growing mobile app company that is revolutionizing private communications. We’re on a mission to amplify privacy as a fundamental human right.
You’ll be joining a rapidly growing, highly curious, and extremely invested team that is laser focused on building and growing our privacy-first app to improve the lives of people everywhere.
The founding team is made up of engineers and entrepreneurs who have collectively started 7 companies employing over 500 people and having raised over $70MM in venture funding.
About the Role
You’ll be the first UX/UI hire at NotPublic, playing a critical role in shaping our design principles and the resulting products.
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You will lead interaction and visual design. You will architect and understand the user personas and journeys, help conduct user tests, and define and present solutions from your conclusions.
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You will lead brainstorming sessions, design wireframes, test features through rapid prototyping and work with engineering to define and support effective sprints and the resulting QA work.
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Our founders are technical. You will be working side-by-side with most of them on day 1!
This position is ideal for a creative self-starter with strong mobile design experience.
Key Responsibilities
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Own the interaction and visual design for the NotPublic app, website and all marketing collateral
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Create and evolve design systems for the app and brand
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Identify target user groups and carry out interviews or other types of inquiry to help understand user needs with the app
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Define UX solutions through flow diagrams, storyboards and pattern flows tailored to the user's objectives
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Lead early-stage planning, prototyping, and prototype testing
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Collaborate with the global agile engineering team to ensure excellent implementation of customized user experiences for the app
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Provide guidance on the implementation of UX research techniques and testing activities to assess user behavior
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Maintain a competitive edge against competitor products and industry trends
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Perform tests on user interface elements such as CTAs, layouts, target links, landing pages and banners
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Understand product specifications and user psychology (Hook Model) and predict what might work for both
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Provide Brand development leadership and more importantly OWNERSHIP.
About You
You have a love for all things beautifully designed and a passion for creating simple interfaces.
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You want to leverage technology to amplify a good idea into something amazing that can benefit millions.
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You are highly autonomous, detail-oriented, and comfortable working on global cross-functional teams in a fast-paced Agile environment.
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You have your own point of view, but you take feedback and ideas from others, and listen to data from users and testing to create solutions.
Additionally:
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You have a "rising tides" approach to success where the enjoyment and fullfillment comes from "doing it together".
Your Ideal Background
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Expertise in mobile app design and principles.
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Experience in human-centered design methods and techniques.
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Excellence in distilling complex ideas into simple concepts, defending the work and being the expert in the room.
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Experience with customer research and experimentation in user testing
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Understanding of business metrics and ability to translate company goals and objectives into mobile digital experiences
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Attention to detail and mastery of information design.
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Proficient knowledge and understanding of accessibility standards, Interaction and Visual Design trends and best practices.
You enjoy
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User interface challenges and solving for user experience deficits
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Collaborating and solving problems with others, keeping solutions as simple as possible
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Ambiguity and engaging with customer research and data to educate decisions
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Working both independently and in a team
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Learning new skills and keeping up to date with developments in technology
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A creative hobby that you are more than happy to share with us.
You are an expert
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Figma and comfortable with other design tools such as Principle, Sketch, Adobe XD, Abstract, Miro, Anima, Canva, and lottie.
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Prototyping, testing and iterating on new and existing designs
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Communication tools (Slack, Trello, Notion, etc)
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Communicating your ideas to developers and the product team
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In a design system methodology or methodologies.
Big Bonus Points If You Have...
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Experience working with startups
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Experience with Xcode (Specifically - UIKit, AVFoundation, coreHaptics using AHAP, various UI Pods such as Snapkit).
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Experience building Icon Style Guides
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Experience with Creative Writing.
Required Reading and activities on your first day:
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Hooked: How to build habit Forming prodiucts : Eyal Nir
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As a man thinketh : James Allen
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Think like a Monk : Jay Shetty
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Complete your team member board here
What We Offer:
This position will be on premise in our historic Fort Point Boston office, with flexibility to work remotely as sprints allow.
We offer:
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A highly competitive salary based upon experience.
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A bonus and options package.
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Generous PTO.
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Health, Dental, Life insurance.
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Gym membership re-imbursement.
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A full-service office environment.
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A pet friendly and pet encouraged workplace.
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The latest Apple Tools.
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Company Retreats, workshops and online tools designed for each member to pursue hobbies, interests and studies.
** We are literally weeks old! Some of the above might fall in the "promise" category while we get things properly set up - please be sure to ask about the status of any and all of these benefits when you chat with us.