Visual Product Designer

About Blaze

Blaze is building the most complete marketing tool for teams of one to produce on-brand content in half the time and grow their businesses faster on the internet.

We're not just building a software product at Blaze—we're building a mission-critical platform that evens the playing field for entrepreneurs worldwide so they can compete on the internet, win against the big guys, and control their own destinies.

Blaze customers can plan months worth of ideas, create high-quality 'drafts for every piece of content, and automatically schedule them to post in 60 seconds flat.

Blaze has served tens of thousands of small business owners. Now, we're growing our team on our way to a million customers plus.

That’s where you come in: we're looking for a product designer who spikes in visual design to bring simplicity, ease, and fun to our product experience.

About the role

Design is at the heart of Blaze's value proposition to users. As our key visual designer on the product team, you'll own the look and feel of our product.

You'll be responsible for shepherding this vision through features from ideation to launch.

You'll work with our customers to prototype ideas and get their feedback about what's working and what's not in our current experience.

You'll sweat the details of every aspect of our product so we set the standard in our space.

And you'll help us build out the culture of a humble, smart, collaborative design team that becomes our secret weapon and the envy of our competitors.

Blaze Design Team Values:

• Simplicity above all

• Build for how real people get work done

• Be pulled by customers

• Focus on the details

• Become the benchmark

What you'll do:

• Own major visual components of the product, like our UI design system along with feature sets like templates for our Designer.

• Engage with users to assess the current simplicity, ease, and vibe of our platform, and propose new ways to create the most consumer-friendly tool on the market.

• Work cross-functionallywith product partners to represent our design values, solicit feedback, facilitate design discussions, and ensure quality.

• Collaborate with engineers to ensure high-quality handoffs, implementation, and final user experience that exceeds expectations and delights users. 

• Lead by example—do phenomenal work and help people on the team learn how you do it through mentorship and coaching.

About you

Experiences that make you stand out:

• 5+ years of designing products—with your work spiking in UI and visual design.

• An outstanding portfolio, showcasing a strong foundation in breathtaking visual design, clear and simple information architecture, and sophisticated UX patterns.

• Tenure at successful early or growth-stage startups that sold to consumers.

• Prototyping to explore and convey design solutions to users and team members.

Skills that make you extraordinary:

• A true savant-like genius for visual design: you have the best visual taste of anyone you know.

• A commitment to excellence in everything you do: you relish exceeding your team's expectations by delivering continually amazing work.

• A preternatural ability to make complex things simple and beautiful.

• A devotion to user research and interest in building what people want and need.

• A love for the details: you enjoy the small polish work required to nail the big idea.

• Comfort collaborating with product managers and engineers to develop your designs.

• A strength around moving fast and doing what it takes to achieve our goals.

• Excellent written skills—critical in our distributed culture!

Our Team

At Blaze, we’re looking for structured thinkers full of passion, ambition, and kindness. We’d love for you apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your experience, skills, and interests will help you stand out—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Blaze, we welcome people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives who aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo. Join us.

At Blaze, we:

• Are fundamental optimists who believe we're still only at the start of the AI age.

• Go to extraordinary lengths to distinguish ourselves through world-class work.

• Prioritize quality over speed, and speed over scope.

• Desire working with deeply kind, mission-driven people.

• Strive to make the complex simple.

• Use first principles to debate ideas, test assumptions, and make decisions.

• Seek the truth by putting data above opinions.

• Assume good intent and give tactical feedback to help each other get better.

• Hold no ego—when our customers win, we all win.

As a company, we are seriously committed to your professional development and growth:

• You will set your own monthly goals aligned with our ambitious strategy

• You will have our collective support in achieving major wins—and personal coaching from your manager

• You will be able to request and manage your own budget

• You will be encouraged to take risks, try new things, and be creative with your work

• You will have many opportunities to exchange and engage in feedback

• You will be offered continual chances to stretch yourself and raise your own bar

• Helping a small company grow 30%+ month-over-month

• You will be rewarded for achieving excellence and mastery

Interviewing at Blaze

It’s our goal to provide an efficient, transparent interview experience that respects you and your time. Our roles typically have a four stage process (sometimes more) and we like to move through those as quickly as calendars allow. After submitting your application you will hear from us whether you are a strong fit for the role or not! From here you can expect:

1. An initial screen with our Head of Design and Head of Brand, the hiring managers

2. A technical exercise appropriate to the role

3. A leadership interview with our CEO

4. Group interviews with our COO and engineering leaders

Your time is valuable, so we try to give you as much information as possible throughout our process to make the best decision for you. Reach out if you have any questions to emily@blaze.ai.