Senior / Staff / Principal Product Designer
About Rewind 👋
At Rewind, our vision is to give humans perfect memory. We believe a world in which you can easily recall anything you’re looking for unlocks the potential of human productivity. That’s why we built Rewind: the search engine for your life. It’s a macOS app that records anything you’ve seen, said, or heard and makes it searchable. For your privacy, we store all of the recordings locally on your Mac and only you have access to them. Instead of spending hours searching in different tools for that piece of information you desperately need, you can now find what you’re looking for in seconds with Rewind.
The product we have today is just the first step toward our audacious vision of giving humans perfect memory. We have raised over $15m from top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Moxxie Ventures, Sam Altman, Elad Gil, and Alexis Ohanian to help make that vision a reality.
Why Rewind 👀
Working at Rewind will be the most impactful job of your life. Our team is small and everyone plays a huge role. The work you’ll do will have tremendous impact on not just our company, but how the world works: making forgetting a thing of the past.
With this audacious goal comes a lot of company growth. And as the company grows, so will you. We will support you in building a career that energizes and fulfills you: giving you opportunities so that you can do the best work of your career. But don't just take our word for it, look at our track record. Our founding team has previously built Optimizely: a $120M annual revenue recurring business with 450 employees which was voted the #1 Best Place to Work.
Benefits 💯
Health insurance: best-in-class healthcare for employees and dependents. Includes vision and dental.Top-of-market compensation: we strive to offer top-of-market salary and equity.Unlimited vacation: we want you to take the time you need to rest and relax.Employee-friendly equity terms: we offer an extended exercise window and early exercise for any options offered.Remote first: we have team members all over the U.S. and everyone is treated equally regardless of location.401(k) plan: for US employees we offer a 401(k) plan with company matching.Office reimbursement: prefer working from an office? We provide a WeWork membership or reimbursement.Parental leave: we offer all parents 12 weeks of paid time off to spend time with their new family.Quarterly retreats: we have offsites quarterly to bring everyone together. Past retreats include Seattle, Breckenridge, Calistoga & Mexico.Choose your gear: we equip everyone with a new top-of-the-line Apple laptop with all the upgrades. Why we need you ✨
There’s no product quite like Rewind. Rewind allows you to search or ask for anything you’ve seen, said, or heard. It’s a native macOS app that’s primarily a fullscreen timeline-based UI. There’s no turnkey system or playbook for solving the types of challenges we face. You will be a valuable part of a small and fast design team focused on helping us build amazing product experiences as we continue growing and refining our product on macOS and other platforms. Some key design challenges include the following:Privacy and transparency: How can we be most transparent with data we capture, how and when we capture it as well as provide as much user control over this data as possible?Accessing information: How can we best help people find what they’re looking for—via search, rewinding the timeline, or by asking rewind—in a way that gets out of your way and feels like an extension of your OS. Cohesiveness: How can we best design experiences unique to the platform and customer needs once we expand to other platforms like iOS and macOS?
What will be your responsibilities 📓
Build deep customer empathy by looking at customer feedback, talking directly with customers, understanding data we have and figuring out what data we need. Own design challenges end-to-end to design thoughtful, simple solutions for intricate interactions and constraints. Your product experiences will delight and inspire.Proactively contribute to the product roadmap and design vision with your understanding of the product, customers, and business opportunities.Rapidly create production quality high-fidelity visual designs, complete with an excellent grasp of required interactions and motion.Work closely with engineering (or jump in the code yourself) to ensure your intended designs ship as you envisioned.Take on a variety of design tasks as needed. We’re a small design team and we all pitch in for everything from macOS product design to website visual design and implementation, and brand design. Soon we’ll be designing for iOS and Windows as well. What will help you be successful 👏
A strong desire to understand our customer needs, business goals and opportunities.Excellent visual, interaction, and UI skills. You have no problem designing websites and apps from scratch. You can take a rough idea and rapidly explore several directions in high-fidelity. You have a portfolio of work or detailed examples showcasing your track record of working on best-in-class products. Strong experience collaborating closely with software engineers in a fast-paced environment on a consumer-facing interactive application. You know that designs aren’t finalized in Figma, they’re finalized in code and you devote enough time and attention to getting details right in the finished product. A strong sense of balancing craft and speed by understanding customer needs and business goals to deliver a cohesive, considered high-quality product. You know when to go the extra mile, and when to ship something today and learn quickly from customers.Deep understanding of systems design and macOS/iOS platform conventions, but know when it makes sense to respect the system vs challenge it.Nice to have: Experience working on an app with Swift and SwiftUI. Rewind uses a lot of SwiftUI (with some AppKit) and designers are empowered to jump in the code to tweak or implement production designs. Nice to have: Other creative experience such as icon design, illustration, 3D design, motion graphics, et cetera. Internally we aren't fixated on titles & levels since that can lead to needless hierarchy that distracts from the team's collective success. We recognize that not all companies operate that way so we say "Senior / Staff / Principal" to indicate we want people with substantial amounts of experience.
If you're interested in this job, we strongly encourage you to apply: we'd love to see you on our team working toward our audacious vision of giving humans perfect memory.
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