Take the reins
About PINATA
PINATA is powerful and easy-to-use software, purpose-built for
the consumer brand industry to manage tasks and goals, measure
outcomes, and maximize ROI. From startups to Fortune 100s,
companies rely on PINATA to deliver systematic task management for
their large and decentralized teams.
PINATA has built a scalable platform that is already delivering
efficiency, transparency, and performance-improvement to major
food, beverage, beauty, and cannabis brands. Following a recent
Series A fundraising round, we are looking to build significant
scale in the near term.
About the role
We're seeking a highly motivated UI/Product Designer who is
creative, systematic, thoughtful, and hard working, in addition to
being technically skilled. You will be fully integrated into our
product team as a vital part of the software-development process.
Working directly with product and engineering - as well as business
leadership - you will ensure that PINATA's product is a model of
usability, clarity, elegance, and consistency. The individual
features, user flows, and overall design systems you help develop
must simultaneously delight our users, improve UX, and streamline
engineering. This role is an outstanding opportunity for an
up-and-coming enterprise-UI designer looking to take significant
ownership of major design challenges, while leveraging in-house
expertise, support, and systems.
Key callouts
PINATA is known for elegantly designed enterprise software.
While we put exceptional emphasis on aesthetics, our ultimate focus
is usability and customer experience. As such, we measure the
success of design not just in pixel-perfection, but also in the
day-to-day value it delivers to our hard-working users.Simply put:
This role is about designing usable software first and foremost.
The ideal candidate will relish system/UX/UI design in equal or
greater measure to visual design/branding.
This role will work closely with existing CPO and Lead Designer,
who will be primarily responsible for setting overall product
direction, scoping, and in some cases designing key screens that
will need elaboration. The ideal candidate will welcome the
opportunity to collaborate and learn from experienced colleagues,
while working within the stylistic and functional parameters they
establish.
Responsibilities
Translate mocks, sketches, or general design direction into
fully-realized screens across mobile and desktop, relying heavily
on an existent style guide and component library.
In collaboration with Product Management, produce
development-ready output that can be handed off to the Dev Team
with appropriate specifications (e.g. interaction notes, thorough
documentation of edge-case states, error messages, instruction copy
etc.)
Contribute to the development of a consistent, flexible, and
extensible design system and reusable components
Design with technical lift in mind, maximizing value for our
customers while minimizing developer effort/time to build.
QA dev-team outputs to assess both aesthetics, copy, and UX
The ideal candidate will also, on occasion and where
appropriate, support product marketing functions with static visual
output (one pagers, infographics, etc.). This is a great
opportunity to flex visual-design muscles as well.
Qualifications
Experience designing for enterprise utility (i.e. people who
need to get complex work done).Candidates with only
branding/visual-design experience will not be considered.
Minimum 2+ years of experience (with a preference for those who
have worked full-time or on long-form projects with a group of
developers)
Experience designing for both mobile web and desktop
Excellent verbal and visual communication skills
Experience using (and ideally contributing to) reusable and
extensible components
Knowledge of how your designs turn into code (aka,
dev-friendly)
A can-do attitude with a willingness to roll up your sleeves and
solve complex design problems on your own, iteratively and
quickly
The passion and energyto shape the future of a young company
that's poised to fundamentally change a major industry
The ideal candidate will also have...
Familiarity with front-end concepts (such as Elm or React), as
you will be designing interfaces primarily for the engineering team
using this framework
Some CSS/HTML is a plus
Experience with developer-friendly design tools such as Figma
and Zeplin.io
You'll receive
Competitive compensation plan/base/bonus relative to the role
and your experience
Full time employees benefits package includes 99% paid medical,
dental, & vision insurance - as well as life Insurance
401k with a discretionary match based on company performance
Pre-tax transit check program options
Long term disability leave policies
Generous maternity and paternity leave policy
12 paid company holidays and a flexible vacation policy - get
your work done and take the time off you need
Work from home/remote work option
Frequent team outings including retreats, happy hours, dinners,
game night, and more!
Ready to join us?
We're excited to meet you! Please send your resume and portfolio
links to
About our team
PINATA was co-founded by Josh Wand, CEO of ForceBrands, the
leading recruitment firm in the CPG industry. Josh founded PINATA
to serve the burgeoning experiential-marketing needs of his
manifold clients leveraging partners from both the CPG and
technology industries.
At PINATA, we've built a collaborative, hard-working, and
high-performing team that values dedication, diversity, and
positivity in equal measure. We support each other and are always
willing to go above and beyond to help our teammates and our users.
We work hard but know how to have a lot of fun while we're at it
too.
If you're looking to be part of something profound and build
something special from the ground up, PINATA is for you. Join us!
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