Staff Product Designer

Design the products that power global trade The opportunity: Flexport’s mission is to make global trade easy for everyone. To achieve this goal, the Flexport User Experience (UX) team creates end-to-end experiences for our clients, partners, and operations teams. We are seeking a design leader with a strong product vision to elevate the current offering and formulate a compelling business and research supported roadmap for the future. This individual sets a high bar for UX quality and knows how to consistently execute at that level. As a key stakeholder in the product development process, much collaboration will be required with Senior Leadership and the broader UX team. To be successful, this leader must be relentlessly curious, embrace change, think deeply, and communicate clearly. Join us as we lay the foundation of our vision for global trade. As a Staff Product Designer on the Flexport UX team you will focus on building delightful and intuitive experiences for our clients to manage their global supply chains. You will craft features that enable users to prioritize, plan, and execute international shipments that travel via ocean and air. You will develop a customer platform that evolves with our growing portfolio of logistics services and work on products that serve users around the world. You will: Contribute to consistently raise the bar for design at Flexport. Help formulate the product vision that may span multiple product areas. Inspire the team to push the boundaries towards innovation. Be a strong partner to your stakeholders and peers. Lead research and workshops to generate powerful insights to improve product design. Collaborate closely with your Design peers at Flexport to ensure we create a consistent and cohesive overall product. Help evolve Flexport design processes and guidelines. Create high quality designs and strives to ensure other designers achieve the same standards. You should have: 8+ years of professional experience. Demonstrated long term thinking around strategic and business focused activities. Will have shipped many successful software products, ideally both desktop and mobile. Proven ability to provide thought leadership and guide a team towards achieving a common goal. Strong portfolio (please include a link and password to your portfolio) Experience working with product teams in a dynamic, agile environment A degree in HCI, UX, Interaction, Graphic Design, or related fields is preferred A "compliance first" attitude to keep our regulators happy and enthusiastic about Flexport since we operate in a heavily regulated industry About Flexport: At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make it easy and accessible for everyone. We’re shaping the future of a $8.6T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year.  The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. At a valuation of $8 billion, we’re experiencing record growth and are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us. Worried about not having any freight forwarding experience? Don’t be! Our mission is to make global trade easy for everyone. That’s why it’s important to bring people from diverse backgrounds and experiences together with our industry veterans to help move the global logistics industry forward. We know this industry is complex. That’s why we invest in education starting day one with Flexport Academy, a one week intensive onboarding program designed specifically to set every new Flexport employee up for success.  At Flexport, our ability to fulfill our mission of making global trade easy for everyone relies on having a diverse, dedicated and engaged workforce. That is why Flexport is committed to creating and nurturing an environment where anyone can be their authentic self. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, health status, marital and family status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range displayed, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and / or training. The US base salary range for this full-time position: (exclusive of bonus, equity and benefits.) $183,150 — $203,500 USD