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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• Own the interaction and visual design for the NotPublic app, website and all marketing collateral

• Create and evolve design systems for the app and brand

• Identify target user groups and carry out interviews or other types of inquiry to help understand user needs with the app

• Define UX solutions through flow diagrams, storyboards and pattern flows tailored to the user's objectives

• Lead early-stage planning, prototyping, and prototype testing

• Collaborate with the global agile engineering team to ensure excellent implementation of customized user experiences for the app

• Provide guidance on the implementation of UX research techniques and testing activities to assess user behavior

• Maintain a competitive edge against competitor products and industry trends

• Perform tests on user interface elements such as CTAs, layouts, target links, landing pages and banners

• Understand product specifications and user psychology (Hook Model) and predict what might work for both

• 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.

• You want to leverage technology to amplify a good idea into something amazing that can benefit millions.

• You are highly autonomous, detail-oriented, and comfortable working on global cross-functional teams in a fast-paced Agile environment.

• 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:

• You have a "rising tides" approach to success where the enjoyment and fullfillment comes from "doing it together".
   

Your Ideal Background

• Expertise in mobile app design and principles.

• Experience in human-centered design methods and techniques.

• Excellence in distilling complex ideas into simple concepts, defending the work and being the expert in the room.

• Experience with customer research and experimentation in user testing

• Understanding of business metrics and ability to translate company goals and objectives into mobile digital experiences

• Attention to detail and mastery of information design.

• Proficient knowledge and understanding of accessibility standards, Interaction and Visual Design trends and best practices.
   

You enjoy

• User interface challenges and solving for user experience deficits

• Collaborating and solving problems with others, keeping solutions as simple as possible

• Ambiguity and engaging with customer research and data to educate decisions

• Working both independently and in a team

• Learning new skills and keeping up to date with developments in technology

• A creative hobby that you are more than happy to share with us.
   

You are an expert

• Figma and comfortable with other design tools such as Principle, Sketch, Adobe XD, Abstract, Miro, Anima, Canva, and lottie.

• Prototyping, testing and iterating on new and existing designs

• Communication tools (Slack, Trello, Notion, etc)

• Communicating your ideas to developers and the product team

• In a design system methodology or methodologies.
   

Big Bonus Points If You Have...

• Experience working with startups

• Experience with Xcode (Specifically - UIKit, AVFoundation, coreHaptics using AHAP, various UI Pods such as Snapkit).

• Experience building Icon Style Guides

• Experience with Creative Writing.
   

Required Reading and activities on your first day:

• Hooked: How to build habit Forming prodiucts : Eyal Nir

• As a man thinketh : James Allen

• Think like a Monk : Jay Shetty

• 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:

• A highly competitive salary based upon experience.

• A bonus and options package.

• Generous PTO.

• Health, Dental, Life insurance.

• Gym membership re-imbursement.

• A full-service office environment.

• A pet friendly and pet encouraged workplace.

• The latest Apple Tools.

• 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.