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— Robin Mathew
Founding Product Designer
Chalk • San Francisco, United States of America 🇺🇸
Chalk is looking for a Founding Product Designer to help define how engineers, data scientists, and ML practitioners interact with Chalk across their web and CLI tools.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with engineers and founders to navigate the problem space, define requirements, prototype solutions, and ship polished experiences
- Own UI/UX end-to-end, from concept to high-fidelity mocks to implementation
- Actively gather feedback from peers and users (mostly engineers and data scientists) to validate designs and rapidly iterate
- Balance speed and polish, with a bias to making pragmatic trade-offs to ship fast and learn
- Help start the design system: components, patterns, and principles that scale with the team
- Within your first 7 days, ship designs ready for implementation
Requirements
- 5+ years of full-time design experience
- Portfolio that showcases shipped work
- Comfort building for an engineering persona, with enough technical literacy to discuss APIs, data flows, and constraints
- A collaborative mindset – low ego about your designs and open to feedback
- Strong communication skills – articulate design decisions clearly and ask clarifying questions to align on context or feedback
- Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment, where 'just enough process' is the goal and without a formal PM structure or formal product documentation
- Fluent in Figma
Key Skills
- Figma
- Design systems
- User research
- Wireframes
- UI design
- Usability testing
- APIs, data flows, and constraints
- Front-end code (HTML/CSS, React, or TypeScript) (desirable)
- SQL, Python, data engineering, or machine-learning workflows (desirable)
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Expert Healthcare Guidance
- Retirement savings
- 15 company holidays each year
- 15 days of personal time off each year
- Flex Commuter Benefits
- Daily lunch and dinner on Chalk
- Office is fully-stocked with drinks and snacks to fuel your work day
- Dinner is on us if you stay late
- Grab an Uber / Lyft home on Chalk if you stay even later
About Chalk
Chalk is building the data platform that powers the future of machine learning applications, tearing down complexity, latency, and scale barriers that have traditionally constrained ML capabilities.
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