Senior Digital Product Designer

Posted:
8/12/2024, 8:35:19 AM

Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ San Francisco, California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Product ⋅ UI/UX & Design

Who We Are

Humane is a team of proven industry experts who have invented, built, and shipped category-defining hardware and software products to billions of people across the globe. We're known for building the audacious, ambitious, and the impossible, and we're doing it again. Our vision for the next shift between humans and computing requires innovation across multiple emerging technologies in hardware and software, from devices to cloud services.

About The Role

The Humane Design team is dedicated to creating simple, delightful and transformative user experiences. We’re passionate about developing innovative yet familiar interfaces that feel like a natural extension of the human experience. We value collaboration across disciplines, from software engineering to hardware design. We’re excited to work with designers who see technology as a tool to help people tackle real-world problems. 

As a Senior Digital Product Designer, you’ll imagine, design, prototype, and ship compelling new experiences. The ideal candidate brings intense curiosity, a dedication to craft and learning, and an openness to sharing and developing ideas. You love to learn, experiment, and engage in the design process. You enjoy the constant iteration and refinement of an idea until it feels “just right” (and even then, you keep questioning how to make it better). At Humane, you’ll have the opportunity to develop features and products that people will love using every day.

We request that you submit a presentation (Keynote, PDF or Figma preferred) of 1-2 examples of your work, along with any passion projects, that you feel represent you as a designer. We’d love to learn how you think about product design and make decisions – from the experience of using a product to its look and feel, the craft behind it, and the trade-offs you made to ship.

What You Might Do

  • Explore, create and ship new experiences powered by AI
  • Work with other designers to refine and improve existing experiences
  • Collaborate deeply with various engineering teams (AI, computer vision, web, etc.)
  • Invent and prototype new ways to interact with computers
  • Contribute to the development of future products

Essential Qualifications 

  • 7+ years experience designing, prototyping, and shipping digital products
  • Fluency with digital product design tools such as Figma, Sketch, etc.
  • Some experience prototyping with tools such as Figma, Origami, Protopie, Play, etc.
  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills
  • Strong foundation in classical and user-centered design principles, including visual design and typography
  • Comfortable with ambiguity

Preferred Skills

  • Fluency with modern mobile, desktop and web platforms and their interaction patterns
  • Deep experience building high-fidelity prototypes with tools like Origami Studio, SwiftUI, or web technologies like WebGL, React/JavaScript, etc.
  • Advanced knowledge of motion graphics, shaders and animation principles
  • Building design systems and reusable components, iconography and type systems
  • Using and experimenting with AI technologies like LLMs, Stable Diffusion/Midjourney/ComfyUI, etc
  • Tinkering with physical objects, designing real world interactive experiences, or anything that bridges the gap between computers and the physical world

Salary Range: $175,000- $215,000

Compensation & Benefits (Full-Time Employees)

  • The salary range for this role is listed above. Final salary offered is based upon multiple factors including individual job-related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge and skills
  • At Humane, you'll enjoy benefits that include health & wellness and work/life balance offerings. Our portfolio of benefits include: comprehensive healthcare insurance, disability insurance, life insurance, flexible spending accounts, and a 401K plan
  • Humane employees also enjoy generous paid time off and leave programs, commuter benefits, team events, snacks and other perks

Why Humane?

  • Develop cutting edge technologies in a creative and innovative environment
  • Imagine new opportunities in areas that matter and will impact the world you live in
  • Be a part of a high performing team of the world’s best innovators and executors
  • Flexible work arrangements to support you in working in the way that you work best
  • Our values: trust truth +joy

At Humane, diversity is important to us.

Humane is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion (including, but not necessarily limited to, religious creed, dress, and grooming practices), citizenship, marital status, age, national origin, place of birth, height, weight, ancestry, mental or physical disability, genetic information, medical condition, U.S. (state and federal) military and veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex, gender, pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical condition), or any other characteristics protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws (“protected characteristics” or “protected categories”). Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and ordinances, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. At Humane, building a healthy and safe workplace is core to our mission. We prohibit harassment of any kind.