About this role

We’re looking for a full time lead product designer to join our team. This role will be responsible for designing mission critical parts of the product. You will be working with the product engineering team on a wide variety of projects including:

• Working with product management and customer facing teams to understand customer problems and turning them into user interfaces.

• Designing desktop and mobile user interfaces.

• Providing production quality designs for the engineering team.

• Ability to set and communicate a design vision across all pillars of the business.

You might be a fit for this position if:

• You’re comfortable working with vector graphic tools like Figma.

• You’re extremely organized.

• You value simplicity. 

• You understand the design capabilities and limitations of various computing platforms.

• You like to delight users and make their lives easier. 

• You’re interested in the best solution, whether it’s your idea or someone else's.

• You have a sense of humor. ;-)

You will be joining a team of experienced product developers. You will have a great deal of autonomy to identify problems that need solving, proposing solutions and implementing them. You will be a key contributor to the product roadmap. 

More about GloveBox 

Keeping track of insurance information is confusing and difficult… home, auto, life, health, pet, different insurance policies written with different insurance carriers ughhh. GloveBox integrates with carriers and agency management systems to provide policy holders with a unified insurance experience. We’re already supporting over 250 insurance agencies and over 300,000 policyholders in the US. GloveBox is the first solution that aggregates all carriers and policies into a single interface via direct connections into the carrier’s systems.

GloveBox is funded by insurtech VCs, executives and top agencies. GloveBox is backed by many influential pillars of the insurance industry. They all have recognized the extreme need for this type of technology and are backing GloveBox as the platform to deliver.

Our team has a deep understanding of the industry and are product experts. GloveBox is made up of a team of top 100 insurance agency owners and 25 year technical veterans. Together the group is pioneering the premier solution to this growing problem within the insurance industry.

Why should you join GloveBox? With rapid sales and development growth since launch in March of 2020, GloveBox is still at the beginning stages of what will be a predominant technology within the insurtech space. By joining the GloveBox team, you will have a large impact on shaping a product that is already widely used and growing. 

Design Tooling

We like to keep our tooling simple and generally resist the urge to add lots of new tools unless they serve a critical purpose. We currently use the following design tools:

• Figma

• Font Awesome for icons

• React for web UI development

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with web and mobile UI design.

• Enjoys problem solving, working with a team and can self manage.

• Is interested in eventually overseeing a production team.

• Excellent writing / communication skills. Documentation is an important part of the development cycle.

• Strong time management skills. 

• Fluent in English.

Compensation 

Compensation will be tied with experience. The salary range for this role is $90k - 110k.

Benefits

• Health, Dental and vision insurance are available. 75% covered for employee, 50% covered for dependents

• Unlimited PTO

• A budget for your workstation.

Location

We’re located in Denver, CO but we’re open to remote working for the right candidate in the US.

How We Run Hiring

1. Apply to this job posting by sending an email to [email protected] with a bit of information about yourself and why you think you’re a fit for this position. Also, provide two links to some work that you feel is most representative of where you’re at as a product designer. IMPORTANT: put the keyword “Astronaut” in the subject. This is how we know you read this job description. 

2. If we think you’re a fit, we will schedule an intro call with the team so we can learn about each other. We’re mostly interested in learning why you were motivated to apply.

3. We will carve out a small task for you to work on that’s applicable to the job. This task will take around 4 hours of your time, and you will be paid for your effort.

4. Once you’re done with the task, we will schedule a follow-up call so you can present your work and we can understand your thought process.

Your first 6 months with us

In your first 6 months, you will:

• Be designing highly visible, customer facing parts of the GloveBox platform.

• Working with the UI engineering team to enhance workflows between design and development.

• Work with product management and leadership teams to understand complex user problems and propose solutions.

• Work with analytic teams to review the effectiveness of product decisions and adjust UI designs accordingly.

Thanks for taking the time to review our job post. We’re looking forward to meeting you and building a great product together.