Product Designer
About Sittercity
Sittercity’s mission is to make child care finally work. We pioneered tech enabled child care in 2001, and we connect millions of parents with babysitters and nannies every year. With Sittercity and Chime, our on-demand service, we are building a platform that is radically simplifying the way we find, book and pay for trusted care. Headquartered in Chicago, we serve families and caregivers nationwide.
We are looking for:
- 3-5 years of experience
- Someone with a user-centric focus. Empathy for our customer during their journey is critical to your design success. You seek to deeply understand each persona so that you design an experience that delights. Talking to the customer to understand their needs is second nature to you.
- A design generalist, comfortable tackling projects in many aspects of the design stack (research, ID, UX, UI, QA)
- You meticulously test and iterate your design ideas through to implementation using feedback from user testing. You have a healthy respect for the importance of analytics data to inform design decisions, but know when to trust your own instincts.
- You can quickly communicate your ideas and the rationale for your decisions to the team to bring them along on the design journey and support your solutions.
- You will help grow a team responsible for the design and user experience of Sittercity’s products. You will help develop and maintain the visual design language for our applications, as well as the processes and tools we use as a team.
We would also like to see the following qualities:
- Frequent sketching
- Able to quickly prototype an idea, using a playground or prototyping tool
- Demonstrable experience designing for native mobile and responsive web, with a good understanding of accessibility considerations
- Understanding of interaction design and usability patterns on the web and mobile
- Designs using a consistent design language. Leans towards components that are familiar and intuitive.
- Prefers to take away from a design than to add to it
- Uses the devices and products they are crafting for
- Attention to detail, persistence to test and iterate to find the right solution for users
Why you should join us
We offer an innovative and fun environment that rewards passionate and curious individuals. Our office provides a bright and energized space for collaboration as well as many quiet areas for concentration. Additionally, you will receive the following benefits:
- Support for flexible and remote working environments
- Food and healthy snacks throughout the day
- Ping pong and on-site fitness center
- Company events, social outings and volunteer opportunities
- Open personal time off policy; Industry leading maternal and paternal leave
- Subsidized use of Chime for personal Childcare services
- Great benefits package, including; Health, dental, vision, disability, life, 401(k)
Sittercity is committed to hiring a diverse workforce. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other basis as prohibited by federal, state or local law.
Sittercity participates in E-Verify and background checks all employees.