Staff Product Designer, Vendr
Seller Experience
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SaaS buying platform
Open for applications
SaaS buying platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To change how companies find, buy, and manage SaaS.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: At least 8 years of relevant experience as an individual contributor on an in-house product design team, as well as 5 years working in a multi-sided marketplace
- Portfolio: A portfolio with web projects that highlight your approach to problem solving, as well as the design solutions themselves. Case studies should demonstrate your skills in research, user experience, visual design, and interaction design
- Figma Mastery: You live and breathe Figma, where you've mastered the essential elements of both design and interactive prototyping. You have an affinity for micro-interactions
- Communication: Excellent communication and storytelling skills, in writing and in speaking
- Teamwork: Experience partnering with Product, Engineering, and Research to craft and execute broader product and design strategies
- Design systems: Experience building design systems collaboratively from the ground up
What the job involves
- As the Staff Product Designer on the Seller Experience team, you are squarely focused on onboarding, activating, and retaining Sellers by providing them with the capabilities, data, and intelligence they need to view Vendr as a critical partner in an effective sales motion.
- You are an expert in interaction design but also have an eye for visual design, with a desire to deliver truly delightful and effective experiences for users
- The Staff Product Designer reports to the VP of Product
- Product design: Create elegant, intuitive, and delightful experiences that result in clear, measurable impact on the business. Design information architecture diagrams, wireframes, flows, service diagrams, high-fidelity mock-ups, and prototypes for your features
- Conversion rate optimization: Collaborate with with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to maximize conversion rates across the entire experience
- Research: Initiate and conduct light-weight research projects to help evaluate product designs, build foundational knowledge, understand JTBD, and define user journeys
- Design systems: Defend and champion our design guidelines, evolve best practices and standards, and help drive Vendr’s design system forward at a tactical level
- Design critiques: Contribute to a process where Product Designers across pods can share current projects in a way that brings visibility and invites stakeholder feedback
- Process adherence: Ensure that you are well-integrated into the established design process, following our standards with a high attention to detail
- Customer obsession: Directly participate in customer and prospect calls to keep a pulse on sentiment, and to help identify and prioritize opportunities. Watch FullStory obsessively
Our take
For enterprises, purchasing software is often a drawn-out and expensive process involving multiple stakeholders and salespeople. Vendr has built a platform that allows businesses to purchase software using software. The aim is to make enterprise software purchases as easy as consumer product purchases.
It's a lucrative business, not just because of the proliferation of B2B SaaS tools, but also because of the revenue potential: Vendr charges its customers between 1% and 5% of its software spend that it manages. This model works for Vendr and its customers, as the latter will typically save significantly more than this by using Vendr.
Vendr has already supported an impressive set of customers, including Canva, Grammarly, GitLab, Brex, HubSpot and InVision. An example of its commitment to improvement is in the launch of Vendr 2.0, that combines its SaaS purchasing and management products to give enterprise customers enhanced visibility into software purchase and use, allowing them to reduce overspend and purchase better software faster and cheaper.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$150m
SERIES B
Feb 2022
$66m
LATE VC
Total funding: $282m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental & vision: We offer competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance which includes 100% employer paid premiums and an HSA contribution.
- Time off & hybrid work: We encourage flexibility and rest, including unlimited PTO, a WFH stipend, the option to work from our Boston and Charleston offices whenever, an annual company-wide week-long shutdown in July, 12 paid company holidays, and more.
- Mental health & wellbeing: The wellbeing of our team is critical to our success, which is why we offer a wellness/gym reimbursement, a paid Calm app subscription, virtual “Wellness Wednesday Yoga” sessions, and more.
- Parental leave: We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family.
- Retirement planning: We want planning for the future to come easy so we provide a 401k with a 4% match.
- Growth & development: You'll have access to an annual education reimbursement, success guides, and our manager training and enablement program.
- Culture & workplace: We are a remote-first company and love to get together for in-person events to strengthen relationships.
Company values
- Kindness-as-a-Service: We strive to be friendly, generous, candid, and considerate in all of our interactions, specifically those that can evoke a lot of emotion, like a negotiation. We keep others top of mind with everything we do, and we believe it is unkind to sugarcoat truths.
- Create fair playing fields, everywhere: We believe that opportunity is abundant, as long as we create a world in which everyone plays by a fair set of rules. We believe in identifying what playing fields are unfair, and working to change them. When the fields are fair, excellence becomes clear – and clearly rewarded.
- V is for velocity: Our bias is always toward speed in the right direction. We prioritize shipping over polishing. We know that the best way to move fast is for everyone to feel ownership and autonomy over their work.
- Pursue truth: We care more about what is right than who is right. We have the curiosity to want to seek out truth. We pride ourselves on being data-informed and work to share data wherever and to whomever it may help.
Company HQ
Back Bay East, Boston, MA
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Founders
Ryan Neu
(CEO)Prior to founding Vendr, Neu was head of Enterprise Sales for InVision and Director of SMB Sales for HubSpot.
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