Offer summary

Qualifications:

5+ years in product design roles, Exceptional UI design skills, Experience working with remote teams on large projects, Strong communication and feedback skills.

Key responsibilities:

Lead product design on multiple projects simultaneously

Conduct user interviews to uncover insights and validate design ideas

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape product direction

Continuously improve design processes and ensure user needs are met.

Job description

🚀 About Compa

Compa is a venture-backed SaaS startup revolutionizing the future of compensation.

In a dynamic job market with hiring challenges, accountability, and the rise of AI, companies need the best data to stay ahead of industry changes, competition, and costs. Compa has developed the premier real-time compensation data platform, delivering top-tier compensation intelligence to leading enterprise teams.

Compa is a compensation intelligence company built to augment enterprise compensation teams in the era of AI.

Our customers include the world’s biggest companies: Apple, NVIDIA, Tesla, Mastercard, T-Mobile, Sanofi, Moderna, Gilead Sciences, and more.

🎨 About the role

You will lead product design on several projects simultaneously. In this role, you will report to our Product Design Manager who has an extensive background in both product design and managing design teams.

We believe great design starts with listening to customers and not a predefined list of requirements. You’ll take an active role in shaping product strategy by consistently advocating for user needs. You’ll know, because you’ll be talking with them.

Good design is much more than how things look, it’s how they work. We encourage our engineering and growth teams to engage actively in product discussions. Your facilitation will be crucial in drawing out the best ideas from across our teams, fostering a culture of innovation, and navigating the trade-offs necessary to build the right products.

We expect a broad set of design capabilities. As a lead product designer you will:

Collaborate with the team on problem discovery and definition
Uncover and distill user needs / insights through customer interviews and product analytics
Design and prototype multiple ideas quickly, connecting regularly with users to validate them
Deliver balanced user experiences that are high quality, easy to use, and ship quickly
Have a strong point of view on how our product should look & feel
Lead and participate in user interviews, turning insights into actionable design decisions and sharing learnings to align the broader team.
Evaluate shipped work to ensure it solves our user needs and meets our goals
Continuously improve our design processes —shaping systems rather than just following them.
Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners, including product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders shaping product direction.
Actively give and receive feedback across teams, clearly presenting design rationale and aligning stakeholders on vision, goals, and user value.

👋 About you

An exceptional UI designer, and consider it a core skill within your broader product design capabilities.
5+ years in product design roles
Experience working with remote teams as a design lead on large projects
Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment typical of growing startups.
Get things done, are incredibly resourceful, and have an ownership mindset
Comfortable leading user research initiatives and talking to customers
Relentlessly iterate and simplify to find the right trade-offs help us ships sooner to users
Experience in designing data-based UIs & data visualizations is a plus
Communicate clearly, concisely, and proactively
Can deftly articulate rationale behind design decisions
Are humble, and give/take constructive feedback well