About Remote

Remote is solving global remote organizations' biggest challenge: employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible for businesses big and small to employ a global team by handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance. Check out remote.com/how-it-works to learn more or if you're interested in adding to the mission, scroll down to apply now.

Please take a look at remote.com/handbook to learn more about our culture and what it is like to work here. Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age and abilities to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. You can check out independent reviews by other candidates on Glassdoor or look up the results of our candidate surveys to see how others feel about working and interviewing here.

All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us!

The position

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Senior Product Designer joining our Mobile App Team.

The mobile team works on crafting the greatest experience for employees and contractors who use Remote's platform. On this team you will drive innovation and excellence for mobile users taking full advantage of native mobile platforms to provide on-the-go functionality that simplifies working with Remote. This is an exciting and impactful team to work on - you will get to consider and design for many touch points across the employment lifecycle - from expenses and time tracking to pay and invoicing - the work on the mobile team has many facets and challenges to inspire you and drive your growth as a designer. You will work a thriving cross-discipline team of designers, developers and PMs.

What we are looking for:

5+ years of related product design experience, ideally with the Fintech or HR tech space. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments.
3+ years experience designing for native mobile platforms, demonstrating a deep understanding of native mobile platforms
An impressive portfolio featuring iOS and Android native designs that deliver strong results for both the business and for end users
Past work that demonstrates your design craft via simplicity, typography, interaction design and UI design
Case studies that help us understand your full end-to-end design process from insight gathering through to defining the customer problem, conceptual design, delivery, measurement and optimization.
Evidence of close collaboration with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
Candidates that embody and demonstrate our core values at Remote: Care, Innovation,
Persuasive communication with, clear, fluent written and spoken English that will help you communicate effectively with colleagues all over the world.

In this role, you will:

Design exceptional mobile products from end to end, participating in all phases of design, from discovery and definition to delivery and optimization.
Create Figma flows that range from low-fidelity wireframes to prototypes and full-fidelity, pixel-ready designs that lead to intuitive user experiences.
Maintain your familiarity with both Google's Material Design Guidelines and Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, and the role they play in native app design.
Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to the features and functions of our native mobile apps.
Take a user-centered design approach. Help the organization understand the needs, challenges, and wishes of customers today and in the future.
Collaborate on project briefs and scoping. Partner strategically with Product Managers and Engineers to generate ideas and viable solutions.
Work directly with the engineering teams to implement new features and iterations and ensure quality standards are met.
Have a keen ability to create work autonomously to package and present solutions to the broader creative team quickly and superbly.
Contribute to creating and maintaining our design system, participate in team critiques and reviews, assist in user research, organize customer events and design workshops.
Help increase our design maturity as a team - drive yourself and your peers to deliver the best quality of work, while embracing and encouraging new methods and ways of working.
Contribute to our design culture - mentor and inspire, give and seek feedback in order to continually raise our bar for quality.

Design at Remote

Design is at the forefront of everything we do at Remote and the aspiration of our team is to move Remote's business forward through great design - we aim to craft the best experience in the category.

Our strategic and user-centered designers start with customer insights and envision how people experience Remote's products. They bring that vision to life, taking responsibility for the entire end-to-end design process from initial research, ideation, conceptualization, and execution, to testing and validation.

Read our Design Team Manifesto

Practicals

You'll report to: Director of Product Design
Team: Design
Location: Anywhere in the World
Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.
At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $51,500 - $173,900K. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

Application process

(async) Application & Portfolio review
Interview with recruiter
Interview with your Hiring Manager
(async) Case Study Presentation
Interview with design peers
Interview with team members
(async) Offer
Veremark employment verification check

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

work from anywhere
unlimited personal time off (minimum 4 weeks)
quarterly company-wide day off for self care
flexible working hours (we are async)
16 weeks paid parental leave
mental health support services
stock options
learning budget
home office budget & IT equipment
budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you'll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
If you don't have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it's important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

Summary
Company name: Remote
Remote job title: Senior Product Designer Mobile
Job tags: User Research, iOS, quality assurance