Senior Product Designer

San Francisco, CA, United States

About Clockwise

https://www.getclockwise.com/

Clockwise is AI scheduling and calendar automation that coordinates the way you, your team, and your company prefer to work.

Every day, based on the preferences you set, Clockwise tests out millions of potential calendar arrangements across your company to determine what choices best balance time to meet, time for deep work, and whatever else you need. The result is a schedule that reacts dynamically to changing calendars to ensure your work day works for you, and a superhuman ability to schedule the impossible. It’s like an executive assistant for your entire team.

Time is a company’s greatest shared resource. Less time spent on calendar management means more time for fostering creativity, exploring new ideas, and driving innovation. Clockwise helps teams make time for the things that matter most and share their time with each other wisely. And with real-time analytics and team-level calendar preferences, companies get insight into bandwidth and mutual availability to maximize productivity and enhance meeting culture. The result? Healthier work-life integration, less burnout, and faster achievement on goals.

We can’t fix our schedules on our own. But we can build the solution together. Join us, and let’s rework the workday.

We're proud to have the backing of Coatue, Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Bain Capital Ventures and other preeminent investors. Our team has decades of experience from places like Twitter, Asana, Salesforce, Dropbox, Meta, Stripe and Google. Join us to help the world make time for what matters.

The role

Clockwise is looking for a senior product designer who’s excited about our mission of helping the world make time for what matters, and our vision of giving every knowledge worker a schedule they love. This is a unique opportunity to join a best-in-class team, work on an innovative product that is changing the way people interact with their calendars, and drive a wide range of projects that significantly impact our users and the business.

What You’ll Do

At Clockwise, we continually strive to build empowered product teams that have clear ownership of subsets of our product and the ability to focus deeply on those areas while they’re working on them. This stems from a belief that the best work emerges from people who are living and breathing the problems they’re solving on a daily basis, not from execs helicoptering in. This role will work closely with their product manager and engineering manager counterparts to lead a squad to deliver important workstreams. As a fast-paced startup with an ambitious vision and roadmap, we keep our teams fluid and adaptable over time - so, rather than being limited to just one area, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to different parts of the product & business (e.g. calendar automation, AI scheduling, scheduling engine, growth & monetization, enterprise use cases, design system, information architecture, and more). More specifically, you will…

Help to define project goals

Design, prototype, and test product concepts with users

Create innovative experiences that leverage your understanding of the latest industry patterns and processes

Design for multiple platforms and surfaces, including a Chrome extension, web app, Slack app, and more to come (with your help!)

Refine designs using research insights, customer feedback, and data

Build, test, and ship high quality experiences alongside your teammates from Product, Engineering, Data Science, Marketing, Customer Success, and more

Help shape and extend the Clockwise brand and visual language

Help us build best-in-class Design culture, tools, processes, and infrastructure

Practice and advance your craft with our tight-knit design team (including brand design)

Directly influence strategic planning and longer-term roadmapping

Join a product team of two other product designers, three product managers, and a VP Product & Design

Help recruit, evaluate, and hire new teammates

Clockwise Product Design Principles

Included to help you get a better feel for Design at Clockwise

Simplify, don’t shortcut

Be simple and straightforward in visual design and in copy. Show, don’t tell.

Design for short attention spans: prefer being simple over being comprehensive.

Beware the point of (rapidly) diminishing returns! It’s easy to overthink, over-design, and over-engineer, especially in pursuit of a product that is, and feels, intelligent. With that said, people will never truly rely on Clockwise for automatic calendar management if it fails to consider important details.

When we identify non-negotiable nuance, we must design elegant, sustainable solutions. Hard-coded assumptions about edge cases will not get us where we need to go.

Joy and polish are non-negotiable

In a world with many competing calendar management alternatives, a great experience isn’t a nice-to-have - it is the strategy. We’re betting on empathy, as expressed through UI that recognizes that our users are humans, just like us.

Design elements typically thought of as polish (e.g. animation, interaction design, surprise & delight elements) aren’t something we add later - they are essential raw material of the experience.

Opinionated, but flexible

We design and ship courageously, leading with the change we want to see in the world.

When designing experiences with multiple valid behaviors (e.g. should flexible holds be booked over focus time), we lead with our opinion, but provide the user a way to modify behavior we know may be controversial.

Our opinions are balanced with a respect for the trust our users have given us. At worst, our opinions should feel inconvenient - never catastrophic.

Reuse and remix

We design collaboratively whenever possible, because our best work comes from iterating on and remixing each others’ ideas. Our default approach is to reuse existing components.

We design primarily for the now, but make choices that preserve our ability to scale. When this approach meaningfully degrades the experience, we’re willing to redefine components as an investment in our future.

About You (minimum Qualifications)

You have 5-10 years experience as an in-house designer shipping digital products, preferably in the B2C or B2B space

You have a bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Your portfolio showcases a strong foundation in user-centered design process, interaction and visual design, typography, and prototyping

You have experience working in all phases of the software product development process, from initial discovery and ideation to detailed interaction and visual design

You have a demonstrated drive to ship early and often

You’ve mastered many discovery techniques (qualitative, quantitative, prototyping), and have a track record of leveraging them effectively

You’re proficient with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Invision, etc.

You have experience with implementing and contributing to design systems

You have experience designing for data-rich applications and a passion for data visualization

You have excellent written and verbal communication skills

Even if you don’t meet all of the above qualifications, we still encourage you to apply.

The perfect candidate

You geek out on productivity tools and software that is redefining the future of work

You have experience on a product team at an early-stage SaaS startup

You have experience designing calendar or calendar-adjacent experiences

You have experience building AI products

You’re very comfortable analyzing quantitative data to inform design decisions

Work location

Clockwise is committed to a work experience that exemplifies our values-driven culture and this starts with empathy for everyone who joins our team. To this end, Clockwise offers both fully-distributed and flexible in-office options for new employees.

Fully Distributed : Clockwise has adopted remote-first rituals and technology for all employees in order to create an excellent employee experience for those who opt to work fully-distributed. This extends not only to a stipend for your home office, but through all our company rituals, including a commitment to get together, in person, on a regular cadence. Please note that we’re open to employees located anywhere in the domestic United States.

Co-working Space : For those who wish to have a physical office, we offer a flexible option to work from WeWork’s nationwide co-working spaces.

Pay Transparency

Clockwise employs pay transparency as one of several systems to ensure pay fairness and employee retention. Below is the approved base salary range for this position. It does not include total compensation factors like benefits, health insurance, and the value of Clockwise equity.

Salary range: $155,000 - 200,000

The final salary offered to a candidate may be higher or lower dependent upon several factors including, but not limited to, market rate, the qualified pool of candidates, internal compensation, candidate experience, interview performance, references, and budgetary constraints.

What We Offer (non-exhaustive)

World-class coworkers and values-driven culture

Competitive total compensation package with generous equity

Premium medical, dental and vision plans

401(k) plan

Wellness stipend

Virtual happy hours & events

Generous, flexible vacation policy

Paid maternity and paternity leave

In the Press

www.getclockwise.com/press

What Drives Clockwise

Empathy - we work to fully understand our customers and teammates, especially when we disagree

Authenticity - we speak openly and candidly while embracing our teammates’ individuality

Focus - we spend our time deliberately and don’t wait to do the things that matter

Drive - we relentlessly pursue success and aren't afraid to get outside our comfort zone

Curiosity - we seek out opportunities to learn and continuously question how we can improve

Enthusiasm - we love what we do and are excited to share it with the world

Clockwise is looking to build a diverse team of individuals that share our core values . If these values resonate with you, please apply below or email us at [email protected].

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