Lead / Senior Product Designer
Helix Collective, Australia
Job Description
Join our tight product design crew of three, and our passionate and open-minded team of venture builders (engineers, founders, and advisors) contributing to building impactful products. You’re an end-to-end product designer so you might be scoping out a research plan, or be tightly embedded with engineers sketching, designing and trying to solve curly problems. Importantly this role will involve helping Helix Collective as a whole sharpen its product and design skills, as well as the ventures you end up working on.
Helix Collective is different from a startup incubator or typical agency so you won’t be swapping projects every 4 weeks. We like to stay with our ventures long enough for them to build out their own team and product and keep reaching milestones at pace. Our portfolio touches on different industries (fintech, B-corp, media etc), and we typically look for founders who have been knee-deep in the pain they’re trying to solve, but also fulfilling to work with.
Helix is very flat so this role doesn’t have direct reports and you’re not reporting to anyone. This means we’ve had to come together to design and implement a roles and skills framework so everyone has some sort of north star. Every opinion is valued at Helix at all levels of decision-making - we take the ‘Collective’ part of our name very seriously. We like to learn by doing. It doesn’t matter if something goes awry - reflect on it, teach others, and we’ll have your back while you do!
Requirements
About you...
- An experienced and versatile designer who is adaptable and comfortable with changes and ambiguity
- An entrepreneurial mentality or interest in working with startups
- Led the research and design of a complex product from vague ideas to onboarding customers
- Sharpened strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- You know that ‘design’ isn’t a one-person job and is not limited to people with design in their title
- Worked closely with engineers and product folk
- You know how to pick the appropriate tool or method for the current problem
- Passionate about mentoring and guiding less experienced designers
How will we work together?
- Work collaboratively with a close-knit team of designers, thinkers, engineers and product specialists
- Communication is key - you’re comfortable with taking founders and team members along the journey with great levels of transparency and trust
- Enjoy empowering and mentoring others - we would like you to hold the space and create guidance for our less experienced designers
- Create value with integrity - at every juncture we ask ourselves whether we are genuinely providing value and are proud of what we have done
- Help drive design direction and improve products through a design lens
- Organising Helix - a company-wide initiative where you can reshape Helix - previous projects include baselining remuneration, and hiring plans
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements and leave policies, hybrid of remote working with the option to work from our open space office in Redfern, NSW.
- Transparent salary and employee options - Yes, transparent. Everyone at Helix knows everyone else’s remuneration and levels.
- Annual company retreats and regular social hangouts
- We have a huge appetite and encourage continuous learning, career and personal growth, when you join our team you can set your own path and we will support you
- Office perks (when we get back into the office) - pet-friendly, a beautiful la marzocco coffee machine, large balcony and ample natural lighting, weekly lunches, beverage stocked fridge and shower facility.
- We keep good company, learn from our current team that has walked the life from Silicon Valley, Atlassian, as a musician, aerospace, Google, mechatronics, radio host, Macquarie bank, as founding entrepreneurs etc.
What does applying for a job at Helix look like?
We understand that putting yourself out there and looking for new opportunities is a big deal. So keeping to our transparent values here are a few things to expect when you apply for a role with us. We’re an easy-going bunch of humans, currently a team of 25, please read our profiles on helixcollective.com to make you feel more comfortable and at ease.
- After submitting your application we will connect via email. We try to do this within a reasonable timeframe.
- 1:1 video chat (30mins) for an initial meet and greet with our People and Culture person
- 1:1 video chat (30-40mins) for a further meet and greet with a Senior Designer
- Group video chat with 2-3 designers (40-60mins) to talk through some of your previous projects. The team is interested in your experience with...
- Resear