Senior Product Designer
We are hiringcontract-basedsenior and director level product designerswith experience leading complex product design projects.
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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 includesGoogle,Stripe,Figma,Hinge,Black Socialists in America,ACLU,Pratt,Parsons,Mozilla,The Nobel Prize,MIT,Gnosis,Etsy&Gagosian. Were the software team behind innovative products likeThe Light Phone&Mill, and we a global, decentralized community space collective calledIndex 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 aSenior 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 to AI enabled interfaces. 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 were looking for is happy, relaxed and easy to get along with. Theyre 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!
Our pay scale ranges from$85 p/hrto$150 p/hrpending client/seniority. Our projects are rarely less than 6 full time weeks.
We prefer long standing relationships with highly accountable and communicative team members, so we encourage candidates to expect longer term engagements.
The person were looking for is happy, relaxed and easy to get along with and appreciates a commitment to a culture of transparency, non-dictatorial leadership styles, and alternative methodologies. Theyre flexible on anything except conceits that will lower their usually outstanding work quality. They work smart by carefully managing their workflow and team.
Once we have reviewed all applications and identified a profile thatmatches our requirements, a member of our team will reach out. Our interview process starts with an intro call to answer any questions you have about the role and to learn a bit more about your experience and interests.
From there, well follow up with a panel interview call where you get to meet a few members of our team, to openly discuss some of our challenges and ensure your skills and interests align with where were going as a business.
For qualified candidates, the process wraps with a reference call, and an offer to follow.
We believe that theres 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. Were 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 have been certified climate neutral since 2021.
- 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 ourSubstack, over here, or ourMedium, over there.
Important Reminders:
We kindly ask that yousubmit a complete and thoughtful application, including relevant links that help verify your work experience and identity. Applications with missing or insufficient information will not move forward in the review process.
Our team carefully reviews every complete submission, and we truly appreciate the time and effort you put into applying.
