Job description

Love envisioning and designing the future, solving hard problems, and creating meaningful value? Come join us as a UX/UI Designer at Philo Ventures!

Philo is seeking a strategic and entrepreneurial UX/UI Designer to help drive the earliest ideation, validation, and product design efforts within our venture studio, and to support our portfolio companies in their ongoing product design efforts. This will be an exciting and dynamic role, extending well beyond the typical constraints of a design role, and with the opportunity for significant personal upside associated with portfolio company success.

The Role:

This role is a critical early hire for Philo, intended to accelerate the studio’s pace of product ideation and launch. The UX/UI Designer will work closely with studio partners, other platform team members (product managers and engineers), and Founders-in-Residence to quickly validate/invalidate opportunities and drive validated opportunities to launch. The successful candidate will have a passion for user-centric design at the earliest stages of a product’s lifecycle, creating value through entrepreneurial efforts, creative problem-solving, and strategic thinking extending beyond the traditional limits of the product design purview.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in all aspects of Philo’s ideation, discovery, and validation processes
• Support concept ideation, validation and launch through user research and workflow creation, wireframing, and prototyping
• Develop high-fidelity and proof-of-concept prototypes using both Figma and no-code solutions (e.g., Bubble, Webflow, Wix, WordPress, etc.)
• Apply lean methodologies to support efficient validation/invalidation of identified opportunities
• Drive the earliest stages of a portfolio company’s product design, in partnership with the responsible Mountain partner, Founder-in-Residence, and/or product manager
• Partner with product management and engineering teams to ensure successful and timely delivery of products
• Act as a strategic partner to portfolio company leadership, creating value wherever and however possible
• Support Mountain efforts to continually improve internal activities and processes facilitating efficient product ideation, validation, launch, and growth
• Actively participate in new business opportunity ideation
• Provide support with general graphic and brand design requirements, as needed

Required Qualifications & Capabilities:

• Passion for 0 to 1 product design and excitement for the opportunity to work with numerous new businesses at any given time
• Meaningful experience in UX/UI design or similar discipline within high-performance, early-stage tech environment
• Solid understanding of and ability to apply UX/UI and product design best practices
• Familiarity with or willingness to learn no-code prototyping/web-builder apps such as Bubble, Wordpress, Webflow, or Wix
• Humility, desire to learn, and bias for action
• Willingness to engage wherever and however needed to help create value
• Fluency in Figma or similar design tool

Nice to Haves:

• Experience using no-code solutions and/or writing simple front-end code
• Undergrad degree from a top university in design or a related field

What We Offer:

• A culture focused on value creation for both our team members, investors, and customers
• Competitive salary and benefits plus participation in studio carry
• Unlimited PTO and support for a healthy lifestyle
• A remote-first culture
• A collaborative, entrepreneurial environment with a proven venture studio playbook
• The opportunity to create, build, and grow innovative products with world-class founders

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $75,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location

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