Mason is the only fully managed infrastructure for developing and delivering dedicated devices. We make it easy for anyone to turn an idea into a smart product and ship it to anywhere in the world. Our mission is to enable our customers to create smart and sustainable products on behalf of humanity.
Are you ready to help Mason build the future of connected mobile products?
Mason Design is a group on a mission. We create delightful experiences for our members through data-informed human understanding. We help create a more holistic experience for Mason members worldwide through physical hardware, digital products, and service design. Mason is the only fully managed infrastructure for developing and delivering dedicated mobile devices. We make it easy for anyone to turn an idea into a smart product and ship it to anywhere in the world. Our mission is to enable our customers to create smart and sustainable products on behalf of humanity.
We're looking for the right person to join our close-knit team and help take our foundational product and business to the next level. Mason's core product is mobile infrastructure as a service ("mobile IaaS") — think elastic, customizable hardware + software + services. Mason is used across industries and use cases today, from digitizing clinical trials to improving warehouse efficiency, streamlining retail payments, and more.
Fast forward one year:
Your designs improved every Mason members’ experience from first-time introduction to system-wide power-user. Your contributions to the entire design process, from design strategy to execution, have helped the team to create thoughtful products and services that are loved by millions of Mason users across many device types. You helped to evolve the Mason design system across desktop and mobile OS which has been paramount to the success of creating a consistent user and customer experience. Together, we created a new design system from scratch that has set Mason apart. Your attention to detail and thoughtfulness to set up and use the design system correctly has made it possible to successfully scale our platforms. Your expertise in design thinking processes and attention towards user research has helped the team to keep the user front and center while identifying the most impactful user journeys across the Mason ecosystem and designing solutions that delight our users. You took on the voice of the user to advocate for their needs and guide design decisions. The entire team has appreciated your focus on the end-user.
The redesign of the Mason platform that you helped to lead has made using Mason products a breeze. Your work on the new member welcome process was a masterpiece of thoughtful interactions and gave our sales teams tools to make every new Mason client feel at home from day-1. You streamlined digital interactions, like product setup and OS configurations, taking a ton of frustration out of the onboarding and deployment process. Your redesign of our online services, such as monitoring device fleets, made day-to-day rituals a dream for our users. Everything is so much smoother now. This wasn’t an accident. It was your efficient and effective experience for design thinking that informed what you and the team needed to do. You sketched out design alternatives, information architecture options, sitemaps, and storyboards, expressing ideas in a visually appealing way that made other team members excited to move forward. You created working prototypes that proved valuable for research and user testing. All the while, you were conscious of the evolving Mason brand guidelines.
Your collaborative approach to working closely with cross-functional teams, such as hardware, engineering and product, has made the past year a great experience for everyone and helped us to function better as a group.
Overall, your impact on the Mason product, its onboarding journey, and users’ everyday product interactions, was seen in measurable ways. You demonstrated amazing product, visual, and prototyping design skills. Awesome! We want to thank you for being an amazing product designer at Mason. As one of the first few team members of Mason Product Design, we thank you for your dedication and hard work. We look forward to the next four years building the future of connected mobile products together!
Now back to today:
We’re ready to make a critically important hire — a star user experience product designer — who will lead user experience to inform massive change in the way Mason works and the products that we offer. You will work with other Product Designers, UX Researchers, Engineering, Hardware and Industrial Design, Software Development, Operations, and other design team members across relevant Mason departments.
If you are an experienced user experience product designer with strong skills and meaningful mileage informative to journey mapping, IA, prototyping, usability testing, and design thinking methodologies, and would love to be part of a new approach to hardware, software, and service design, you should apply. If you have significant experience in data-informed, membership-based companies, organizations, products, or services, we’ll love you even more. You will join us as either a fully remote employee (or) in our Seattle, WA headquarters and we’ll provide the resources you need to bring out the best in your talents and skills.
Qualifications:
4+ years of meaningful experience in product design
Must have a solid background shipping digital products
Experience working from and evolving user research
Experience user journey mapping and prototyping design solutions
Understanding in utilizing and evolving design systems within Figma
Strong verbal and written communication, organizational, and time management skills
Track record of strong partnerships with research, engineering, and product teams
Proven customer-focused approach to product design, balancing business needs, customer needs with engineering and design initiatives
Demonstrated success in resolving conflicts
Bonus points for:
Experience working with hardware or physical devices
Experience building platform services for enterprise use
Experience with logistics and fulfillment services
Experience building developer platforms
Experience in designing mobile application
Salary Range: 113,000 - 145,000 USD
In addition to the base salary, full-time employees are eligible for participation in Mason’s annual discretionary bonus plan and equity plan, subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay based on exemption status. Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate including their skills, experience level, qualifications, location, and other job-related reasons.We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. To learn more about what’s included in total compensation, check out some of the benefits and perks Mason offers to help employees grow.
Benefits and Perks:
Remote-forward: Employees may choose to work fully remote, in-office, or hybrid.
Generous PTO: Flexible PTO plan or generous accrued PTO, plus monthly mental health days during the pandemic.
Parental Leave: Caring for a new child is an exciting time for parents! We offer 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
Healthcare: Fully paid premiums of medical, dental & vision insurance for you, your spouse & dependents. Coverage starts 1st of the month, on or after hire.
Fitness & Wellness: Quarterly reimbursement for qualified fitness & wellness expenses.
Retirement: Tax-advantaged 401k account to help you reach your retirement goals.
FSA: Healthcare, Dependent Care & Commuter FSAs for tax-advantaged savings toward eligible expenses.
Home Office: Spot bonus & monthly stipend for qualified home office expenses.
Commuter/Food: Monthly bonus to supplement commuter & food costs.
Full benefits are offered to regular full-time employees. Part-time employees participate on a limited basis.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Mason
Belonging, psychological safety, and inclusivity unlock a Mason’s full potential. We don’t want Masons to quietly assimilate into a dominant culture and sacrifice a piece of themselves. We want our team members to be seen, validated, and welcomed.
Mason America, Inc. (the “Company”) is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.
Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on the Company. Please inform the Company’s personnel representative if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.
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