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HoneyBook

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

HoneyBook, New York, New York, us, 10261


HoneyBook is the leading clientflow management platform that makes it easy for independent business owners to sell and deliver their services online. Offering powerful tools for communication, contracts, invoicing, payments, and more, the platform puts independent professionals in control of their process and client experience. HoneyBook is trusted by over 100,000 service-based businesses in the United States and Canada that have booked more than $12 billion in business on the platform.

Our culture is built on five core values that inform everything we do. We encourage collaboration, feedback, ownership and have a growth mindset. We know experience comes in many different forms, some visible on your resume, others not. No one candidate will be a 100% perfect match to our description, so if you thrive in a fast-paced, intellectually-charged environment and have similar experience to what we are looking for, we encourage you to apply.

The Design department at HoneyBook is searching for a systems designer to help shape the next phase of our design systems. As a Sr Product Designer you will collaborate closely with product design, engineering, and content design teams, to reimagine and reshape the ways to best work together, creating incredible experiences and interactions for our users, and leading the path to bringing our visual, interaction, UX and design language to the next level.

A scalable, intuitive, expertly built design system is crucial for our product teams to ship top-notch user experiences and advance the company's goals. Our Product Designers use design system components to bring our members the best features HoneyBook offers, ensuring an intuitive, consistent, delightful experience throughout their user journey.

In joining the Design department at HoneyBook, you're joining a cutting-edge, highly qualified team of designers and developers dedicated to bringing the best possible experiences to our users through a sleek, intuitive, state-of-the-art design system of multi-faceted, complex components. You're also joining a multi-disciplinary organization consisting of Product Design, Brand Design, Marketing Design and User Research teams; the Product Design team in particular works cross-functionally with just about every team from product to education, to deliver a unified customer experience and make things feel like HoneyBook.

We aim to equip our designers, engineers, and product teams with the tools to consistently and efficiently create exceptional products. Your commitment to delivering high-quality, accessible, and user-friendly experiences will shine as you champion the design system throughout HoneyBook.

Here are a few of the things you'll do:

Maintain and scale our existing desktop and mobile design systems in a way that fits our growing needs and delivers an exceptional holistic, system level experience to our users.Collaborate directly with designers and cross-platform engineering teams to identify needs and define new HoneyBook components.Work with UX researchers to understand our users' needs and how they interact with our components to improve and evolve our design foundations.Build and implement system-level interaction patterns that are reused across the product to increase consistency and reduce the learning curve for our users.Uphold an effective design system process that helps unblock teams quickly, and maintains high design craft standards and system consistency.Create detailed design documentation to support the design and engineering usage of our design systems.Build for accessibility upfront in the creative design process, and advocate for inclusive experiences across platforms.Work with engineers and PM's to implement horizontal changes and updates to the product which clearly represent the HoneyBook brand and push our craft standards higher.Interested? Here's what we're looking for:

You have 5+ years of experience designing and shipping exceptional products for desktop and mobile and can provide examples of your recent work and its results.You have proven expertise in leading complex design systems. You've helped build, evolve and/or maintain a design system in a growing organization.Expert Figma skills, including component building, prototyping, and working with variants and variables. You're up-to-date on all the newest Figma developments and capabilities.You have a good understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and are able to effectively collaborate with engineers.You have a track record of leading wide initiatives, collaborating with leadership, and leading without formal authority. You can motivate a team to build amazing products by getting the buy-in for your concepts and getting them to rally behind your designs.You design with scale in mind. You understand how different parts of a system come together to create exceptional holistic experiences.Expertise in creating the best methods and processes for designers and engineers to engage with the design system.You have extraordinary visual, interaction, and system design skills.You are an expert at navigating technical complexity and collaborating productively with engineers, and you know how to design iterative solutions.Bonus: you are experienced with creating in-product illustrations.The good stuff

Mission-driven:

You'll be joining more than just another startup. Our members' success is at the heart of everything we do.Impact : We move quickly and encourage every employee to push the envelope. Our best ideas come from out-of-the-box thinking and innovation; be ready to fail fast and often!Compensation:

We offer a competitive salary and meaningful equity grants.Base pay: $120k-$145kBenefits & perks : From wellness programs to exceptional family leave policies, the health and happiness of our employees are foremost.Our core values

People come first : We prioritize people as we explore opportunities and work through challenges.Raise the bar : We push for greatness-for ourselves, each other, and our users.Own it : Trust and ownership let us make decisions with confidence.We love what we do : We bring passion to our work and love what we create for our users.Keep it real : Authenticity, respect, and transparency are at our core.

The opportunity at HoneyBook is huge - our primary customers today are creative businesses that generate in aggregate $150B in revenue per year in the US. Our company, like the members we serve, thrives on creativity and risk-taking; in seven years, we've become the biggest and the most widely recognized player in the creative entrepreneur space. To date, HoneyBook has raised $498M and is backed by investors such as Norwest Venture Partners, AngelList founder Naval Ravikant, Medium CEO Ev Williams, Bebo's Michael Birch, and VCs such as Aleph, and Hillsven.

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