Senior Product Designer

StreetLight pioneered the use of Big Data analytics to shed light on how people, goods, and services move, empowering smarter, data-driven transportation decisions. The company applies proprietary machine-learning algorithms and data processing resources to measure travel patterns of vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians that enable complex transportation problem solving using analytics available on SaaS platform, StreetLight InSight®. Acquired by Jacobs as a subsidiary in February 2022, StreetLight continues to provide innovative digital solutions to help communities reduce congestion, improve safe and equitable transportation, and maximize the positive impact of infrastructure investment.
StreetLight Data is seeking a Senior Product Designer to augment our design efforts and execute end-to-end design for our transformational SaaS transportation products. You’ll create engaging experiences for our users and work internally to improve the usability, discoverability, and learnability of our powerful tools. If you’re a systems-thinking Product Designer who’s excited to work on complex problems with real-world impact and possess a keen eye for design, come help us measure, power, and improve mobility! Candidates located in the San Francisco, CA area that can eventually work from our SF office are preferred but we are open to candidates in the Pacific time zone, including the Vancouver, BC area where we have an office as well.

What You'll Do:

• Deferred to design owner of user stories that fundamentally redesign or push our technology forward.
• Anticipate internal and external design challenges & user needs, and proactively work across teams to respond & facilitate change.
• Own user education and onboarding projects, working closely with our documentation manager and a rotation of product managers.
• Sustain our design system efforts and work with leadership to expand our work to bring consistency and iteration to the platform UI.
• Understand and distill complex, broad concepts into beautiful and functional mockups and prototypes
• Apply your skills throughout the product life-cycle including research, sketches, wireframes, interaction, and visual design through prototyping and usability testing
• Partner with product managers, engineers, and leadership to craft useful, delightful product experiences
• Support and contribute to user-testing and validation (using quantitative and qualitative methods)
• Develop high-level research, journey maps, user flows, and wireframes to communicate ideas between functional teams effectively.

What You'll Need:

• 7-10 years of experience, or commensurate skill level, designing and delivering user-centered, enterprise software experiences
• Demonstrated practical abilities in contributing to end-to-end product design decisions from early concept to product launch
• Deep empathy with an understanding of user needs and passion for designing beautiful, functional software products
• Experience with user research, prototyping, HTML, CSS, JS
• Experience using Adobe Creative Suite and ideally a breadth of design tools like Sketch, Axure, Invision, and Figma. We are a Figma-focused shop, but transitional software skills are welcome.
• Geospatial visualization background preferred, but not required

Why You will Love it Here:

• Fun company and team outings (mostly virtual events these days!)
• A great opportunity to grow your career as a design professional with ample training and structure along the way
• Employer subsidized comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage in the US
• Paid company holidays plus accrued time off
• Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team

 
StreetLight Data is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. StreetLight provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.