Senior Product Designer at Searchlight

Last updated 16JULY.2021

Why Searchlight?

• Searchlight is creating a new category of data-driven hiring, focused on data infrastructure that closes the loop between recruiting and post-hire outcomes.

• Fresh funding from top-tier investors like YC, Accel, and Founders Fund

• Fast-growing team tackling an initial $140B market opportunity with a category-defining product

• 77 NPS with customers like Zapier, Udemy, and Coda

• Women-led and mission-driven company, founders are Forbes 30U30 with backgrounds from Stanford, Uber, Google, and McKinsey

• Opportunity for meaningful ownership, leadership, and autonomy

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We are looking for a teammate we can count on to:

• Lead the end-to-end design process of major features, and the redesign of existing features based on customer feedback

• Collaborate closely with engineers and founders to prioritize, scope, design, ship, and iterate on our suite of products

• Be shockingly efficient and results-driven to deliver v0 and v1 quickly and iterating

• Own the design function by proactively identifying key areas of design investment

• Participate in customer success conversations and lead user research

• Play a key role in building our design org

Relevant Experience:

• 5+ years of relevant design experience at a product and design driven company

• Experience designing and shipping products, ideally in the B2B/SaaS space

• Have an exceptional portfolio that demonstrates strong product and visual design sensibilities, highlighting care given to user journeys and interaction details

• Mastery of at least one  design tool (we use Figma at Searchlight)

Success Profile:

• Exceptional communicator, both verbal and written, around design decisions and project deadlines

• Creative and strong eye for visual design

• Self-starter and fast learner

• Sharp at problem solving, critical thinking, and systems thinking

• Deeply motivated to deliver high impact solutions to users

• Biased towards action and speed of delivery

Key Teammates:

Anna Wang - CTO/Cofounder

More about Searchlight

Companies with the best talent win. But the way that companies hire hasn’t changed in decades, and recruiting as a core business function has been largely left behind by technology innovations in other functions like sales, customer success, marketing, etc. Job descriptions are still written in silo-ed documents, recruiting metrics end at time-to-fill instead of quality-of-hire, and we have a devastating diversity problem. While these are big challenges, we see a huge opportunity for Searchlight to own a ton of whitespace in the recruiting tech landscape.

Searchlight's full-cycle talent platform gives companies the right data and infrastructure to assess candidates and scale winning cultures. 

Logistics:

• Remote through Sep 2021 

• Located out of the San Francisco, CA office beyond Sep 2021 with hybrid in-person and remote work

• Weekly team dinners (remote) sponsored by the company

• Salary range $140-180k 

• Significant Equity

• 401(k), Unlimited PTO, Health Insurance (100% paid premiums)

What Hybrid Work Means to Us

We are a fast-paced, tight-knit team that enjoys quality time working synchronously during core business hours. We have a PDX office and will have a SF office by EOY2021. We encourage team members to come into the office 2-3 times a week. 

Diverse and Inclusive Employer

We’re committed to providing equal treatment and opportunity to all applicants at every stage of the hiring cycle and throughout their life at the company.  We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected status.

Note: Research says men tend to apply even if they only meet ~60% of the job qualifications, whereas women and other marginalized groups are hesitant to do so. If you don’t match 100% of the job qualifications but think you’d be a great fit, we encourage you to apply!

Searchlight's mission is to build the best teams by helping companies hire the whole person, beyond resumes and interviews.

Searchlight's intelligent hiring software creates a profile of a candidate's team fit, strengths, and areas of growth through the people who've worked with them before. Our platform then matches the candidate to unique team profiles to predict top performers. Our customers like Udemy, Masterclass, and TrueCar now have the data they need to hire efficiently and effectively.

Our investors include Accel, Founders Fund, and Soma Capital.