Senior Product Designer

About MarkUp

MarkUp is the leading visual commenting platform for websites, PDFs and images. It’s the perfect companion in your creative process to bring teams together, helping close the feedback loop for anyone that works with multiple collaborators on a project.

Within just 2 years, we have signed up over 250,000 users and won Product Hunt Product of the Year in 2020. 2022 is already looking to be a bright year for MarkUp as we grow out our nimble product team.  

Our customers include some of the world’s leading brands such as Verizon, Herbalife, Getty Images, BDO, Colliers, AIG, Rosetta Stone, Johnson & Johnson, and Dolby.

We are owned and operated by our parent company Ceros — a design platform that empowers the creation of bespoke, immersive digital experiences without code. As we share the same DNA as Ceros, we’re also passionate about helping companies transform their approach to creating and managing digital content. 

We are well-funded and institutionally-backed by prominent investors including Sumeru Equity Partners, Grotech Ventures, Greycroft, and Starvest Partners.

We are remote first forever with a 4½ day workweek that finishes every Friday at 1pm.

The Role

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll help evolve the product design function at MarkUp, and provide UX guidance for the rest of the team while helping to shape the direction of MarkUp as we grow in a hands on design role.

Key Responsibilities

• Help to evolve our product design process

• Provide UX guidance and direction for both MarkUp as a platform and the team as a whole

• Carry concepts through the end-to-end process - from early exploration to refined designs ready for implementation

• Build prototypes and help drive user testing

• Collaborate closely with product management and engineering to bring solutions into the real world

• Conduct and take part in customer research to better understand user needs and behaviors

• Mentor other designers and establishing team processes as needed

Practical stuff we anticipate you having

• 3+ years experience (or tell us why this doesn’t matter)

• Well rounded design skills, spanning UX, UI & Visual Design

• Experience leading a product design team, shaping process, conducting reviews, etc.

• Strong prototyping skills

• A deep understanding of UX and how to best implement process

• Experience conducting or participating in first hand user research

• Proficiency in industry standard tools such as Figma

• Bonus: Experience working in the same or a similar space to MarkUp

What we’re looking for from the heart

• Strong communication and collaborative skills

• An intense focus on outcomes over outputs

• A customer centric mindset, with the ability to separate yourself from the equation and put yourself in the users shoes 

• An appreciation for simplicity and the drive to work through complexity to arrive at the simplest, most intuitive solution

• An eye for detail, without ever losing sight of the bigger picture

• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity

Key Things to Know

• We want you to start ASAP 

• This is a full-time position

• This is a remote first role

Benefits

• Competitive Salary

• Stock options

• Premium health insurance

• Paid parental leave

• Unlimited vacation days

• Wellness Fridays (Half Day Fridays)

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

• Stipend for the home office set up

• Growth and Learning opportunities within the company

• Virtual experiences in which Cerosians can collaborate, educate, and create social connections with one another

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.