Sanctuary Computer: Senior Product Designer

Headquarters: New York City

URL: https://sanctuary.computer

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Senior Product Designer

We are worker-owned creative collective, innovating on everything from brands and IRL communities to IoT devices and cross platform apps. We share profit, open source everything, spin out new businesses, and invest in exciting ideas through financial and/or in-kind contributions.

Our client roster includes Google, Stripe, Figma, Hinge, Black Socialists in America, ACLU, Pratt, Parsons, Mozilla, The Nobel Prize, MIT, Gnosis, Etsy & Gagosian. We’re the software team behind innovative products like The Light Phone & Mill, and we a global, decentralized community space collective called Index Space.

We think of our garden3d as collective for creative people, prioritizing a happy, talented, and diverse studio culture. We work on projects that bring value to our world, and we balance deep care for the work we do with a genuine curiosity about life outside of our jobs.

Right now, we’re looking for a Senior Product Designer with expertise in user experience, interface design, and product strategy, who can collaborate directly with clients and cross-functional teams.

In this role, you’ll work on a variety of client projects to create intuitive, engaging, and effective digital products. You would work on products across many industries, from e-commerce to connected hardware products. Responsibilities will include:

• Leading the design process from discovery through implementation, working closely with clients to understand business goals and user needs
• Creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs while maintaining a focus on both user experience and visual consistency
• Participating in design critiques, providing constructive feedback to teammates and ensuring adherence to design systems
• Contributing to project success by managing design workstreams, collaborating with developers, and meeting project milestones
• Presenting design solutions to clients and iterating based on feedback while maintaining design integrity

The person we’re looking for is happy, relaxed, and easy to get along with. They’re flexible on anything except conceits that will lower their usually outstanding work quality. They work “smart”, by carefully managing their workflow and staggering features that have dependencies intelligently — they prefer deep work but are OK coming up to the surface now and then for top-level/strategic conversations.

We believe people with backgrounds or interests in design, art, music, food, or fashion tend to have a well-rounded sense of design & quality — so a variety of hobbies or side projects is a big nice to have!

🔑 Must-Have Competencies:

• 6+ years of experience in digital product design, with a proven track record of designing and bringing to market successful mobile and web applications
• Expert knowledge of modern design tools (Figma, Sketch) and prototyping platforms (Principle, Framer)
• Strong understanding of Web app, iOS and Android design patterns, guidelines, and best practices
• Expertise in user experience (UX) design methodologies, including user research, journey mapping, and usability testing
• Demonstrated ability to create and maintain comprehensive design systems across multiple platforms
• Experience with accessibility standards and designing inclusive digital experiences
• Portfolio showcasing complex digital products with elegant solutions to challenging design problems

💪 Nice to Have Competencies:

We’re always pitching for new and exciting technology niches. Some of the areas below are relevant to us!

• Experience with motion design and animation tools like After Effects, Principle, or Framer Motion
• Working knowledge of 3D design tools (Blender, Cinema 4D)
• Experience with design research methodologies and user testing frameworks
• Basic skills with front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Background in branding, visual design, or illustration
• Experience working with design systems at scale across multiple products or platforms

Our pay scale ranges from $85 p/hr to $150 p/hr pending seniority, and our projects are rarely less than 8 full-time weeks at 40 hours per week. Additionally, we pay discretionary bonuses for going over and above — like training & coaching others, winning new business, speaking at conferences, etc.

We prefer long-standing relationships with highly accountable and communicative team members, so we encourage candidates to expect longer-term engagements. A senior engineer working 40 weeks per year may take home $150k — $200k USD.

Our interview process starts with a call where you get to meet a few members of our team. From there, we’ll ask appropriate candidates to take part in a technical exercise that helps illustrate skill level and comfort.

→ It’s also a great way to see what it’s like to work with us and help support folks who may not have the ‘right title’ but have the experience and technical know-how for the role.

We believe that there’s a better balance between the poles of freelancing & full time, and for that reason Sanctuary works differently to most shops:

• Transparency & Ownership: We release out Profit & Loss statements to the community each year, open source our best ideas, and talk business & money with everyone in the company. We’re proud to run our business with integrity, and for that reason we share everything with our team & community.
• 150% Carbon Negative: Our studio offsets 150% of the carbon we use to do business each year, dated back to our founding in 2015. We turn down work that is not in-line with our morals, and we encourage our peers to do the same. We were certified climate neutral earlier this year.
• Strong Morals: Since our founding, we’ve turned down somewhere between $1mm – $2mm of work that didn’t meet our moral standards. (Most of that was DTC brands that can’t show a valid sustainability initiative).
• Async & Decentralized: We use tools optimized for calm, thoughtful communication, and opt for async whenever possible. We fight hard to maintain our focus time.
• Remote Friendly: Our company is fluent in remote work, making our workplace more decentralized, and democratized in the process.
• Ideas & Products: In our spare studio time, we work to build our own open source or internal products to diversify & bolster our income. We create amazing technology products for our clients, so why not for the studio?

→ Read more on our Substack, over here, or our Medium, over there.

We’re excited to hear from you! ❤

Feel free to apply using the link below or just click the apply button—whatever’s easier for you! →The garden3d Creative Network 

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