Lead Product Designer

🌎 Location: Remote within the US, Brazil or Europe

⬆ Reporting Into: VP of Product Design

💰 Compensation: $120,000-$165,000 annual salary, based on experience and location.

About Ceros

At Ceros, we are artists and technologists, and our dual soul is our unique strength. We value and ignite creativity at every level, reimagining Ceros to lead in this new era. As we embark on the next chapter in our mission to unlock creativity, Ceros is not just evolving, but leading the charge in an AI-driven world, becoming the world’s premier provider of AI-powered creative solutions for the enterprise sector.

Our growing suite of cloud-based tools is specifically designed to empower professional creators, enabling them to push beyond their design boundaries and transform the way they collaborate with their teams.

Today, our products are powering some of the most engaging experiences on the web. In 2023 alone, interactive content created with Ceros Studio — from landing pages and pitch decks to interactive social media — were viewed more than half a billion times, and over 3 million comments have been added to digital content using MarkUp, our visual collaboration tool.

Working at Ceros means making an impact at scale. Our products and services are beloved by over 500,000 users and leveraged by leading brands including Mashable, Bloomberg, Red Bull, and Pinterest. And we're building something even bigger and better: the creative operating system of the future, viewed through an AI-first lens.

Ceros is backed and well-funded by top-tier investors including Sumeru Equity Partners, Grotech Ventures, Greycroft, and Starvest Partners.

The Role

The product you will be shaping is a one-of-a-kind platform that empowers our customers to effortlessly create high-end digital experiences. With this comes the opportunity to work on very unique and open-ended use cases within our creation-focused studio tool as well as redefining the end-to-end creative workflow all the way from planning, designing and reviewing to publishing and accessing performance analytics. Working at Ceros is a unique opportunity to push your capabilities and skills as a product designer and impact the future of digital content creation at scale.

The Product Design Lead at Ceros is a senior and hands-on role within the product design team. This is primarily an individual contributor role. We are looking for a designer with in-depth experience in solving highly complex and unique UX problems, while applying exceptional UI design skills and a mature strategic mindset to drive impactful and intuitive experiences at the highest execution level.

You are used to successfully balancing multiple initiatives, equally focusing on perfecting the near-term aspects of the product as well as bringing to life longer-term strategic initiatives. While you are comfortable working as an individual, you equally know how to lead collaborative projects with a hands-on attitude. You are highly respected within and beyond the product team as well as the broader organization. As a member of a remote first team, you embrace transparency and collaboration and lead with proactivity..

Key Responsibilities

• Independently lead the day-to-day design initiatives for at least one of our Ceros products and product teams, covering both tactical and strategic efforts
• Drive the experiential quality of our products and capture the Ceros brand, through highest quality visual design and UX design solutions
• Work hands-on with the designers on your team to deliver comprehensive implementation-ready flows, design assets and documentation
• Proactively drive the strategic direction of your product through design-centric explorations, presentations and prototypes
• Ensure design feasibility within our suite of products by approaching solutions holistically and systematically, considering edge cases, existing and emerging design patterns and platform specific requirements
• Collaborate closely with product management and engineering, evaluating feasibility of designs and ensuring accurate implementation
• Work closely with other designers and design leaders across the business, leveraging, building and expanding our cross-product design system
• Plan, lead and synthesize design-centric user research and testing initiatives to inform and validate your design decisions
• Utilize and scrutinize data and use it carefully as a compass for your design decisions
• Creation and present design concepts and solutions to senior leadership through rich prototypes and presentations, driving buy-in and alignment.
• Stay up-to date with, and ensure external UX design trends and competitive platforms are considered in your design solutions
• Being a cultural ambassador and role model, exemplifying the Ceros core values

Practical stuff we anticipate you having

• 6+ years of product-centric UX / UI design under your belt
• Proven track record and expertise in complex UX / UI Design problem solving
• Strong skills in visual design
• Fluid in best practices in qualitative and quantitative user research and validation methodologies
• A pro in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite and other relevant design tools
• Knowledge of and experience using a variety of design, presentation and project tracking software
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• A top notch design portfolio, demonstrating process, outcomes and impact
• Bonus items:
• Experience working in a remote-first environment
• Background in B2B or SaaS and/or No-Code creation platforms
• Motion design and/or video skills
• Advanced prototyping skills (Flinto, Framer or Principle)

The 5 traits that makes you a great fit for our product and design team:

• Outcome Obsession. You lead by example, pushing the overall interactive and visual design execution within and beyond the current initiatives, successfully balancing rational / functional with highly emotional and engaging aspects of UX design.
• Design Depth. You are an expert at cutting through the complexity of a no-code platform, rigorously assessing design patterns, considering dependencies and accounting for edge cases with the goal to create frameworks and solutions that capture the essence and simplicity of the problem you are solving.
• Future Foresight. You are comfortable with ambiguity and excited to tackle strategic challenges. You live and breathe the product roadmap and are an expert in blending insight and data with a strong product intuition to make future-focused design decisions.
• Experience Expertise. You are being endlessly curious about your customers and applying user-centricity and empathy to everything that you are doing. You are fluent in translating research into actionable insights, informing strategic product decisions and relevant design solutions.
• Trusted Team-Player. Leading the design of multiple tactical and strategic efforts. Successfully leading and mentoring the design team members. Confidently presenting, communicating and defending the output of their team. Is well respected by other people in the product team and key stakeholders across the organization.

Key Things to Know

• This is a full-time position
• This is a remote first role

Benefits

📈 Stock options

🏥 Premium health insurance*

🏦 401K matching*

👶 16-weeks paid parental leave for primary caregiver

🌴 Flexible vacation days

🤒 Paid Sick days

🧘 Wellness Fridays

💵 Stipend for your home office setup

💻 Excellent gear (Macbook Air, external monitor, etc.)

👩‍💻👨‍💻 Stipend towards experiences in which Cerosians can collaborate, educate, and create social connections with one another

🏢 Unlimited access to co-working spaces around the globe

*Varies based on location

At Ceros, we are deeply committed to the recruitment, retention, and growth of diverse talent; uniting people from unique backgrounds in our shared passion for unlocking creativity through technology.

As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against a job applicant on the basis of their race, color, religion, veteran status, parental status, gender identity or expression, transgender status, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetic information. We respect the laws enforced by the EEOC and are dedicated to going above and beyond in fostering diversity across our company.