Head of Design, Saturn
$220-260k
+Equity and Bonus
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Social & calendar app for High Schools
Open for applications
Social & calendar app for High Schools
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$220-260k
+Equity and Bonus
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Saturn's mission is to build community around the calendar.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Outstanding visual design skills
- Experience influencing teams and organizations through strategic thinking and communication
- Knowledge and passion for mobile app design, interaction design and design systems
- Ability to prototype interactive mobile experiences
- Self-starter with ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- You use a data-informed approach to compliment design thinking
- You have a growth mindset, willingness to consistently push the limits to grow the overall business
- You have a desire to build for the long term, valuing patterns and structures that allow for flexibility in an evolving product
- BA / BS degree or equivalent years of experience
- 5+ years of relevant mobile Product Design experience
- 3+ years of people management experience managing product designers including mid and senior-level designers
- A strong portfolio with past examples of mobile and consumer tech products
- Expert proficiency in Figma
- Not required, but highly valuable bonus skills and experience: motion design, illustration, familiarity with revenue ad products
What the job involves
- The Product Design team is an influential team that steers the future product design of the Saturn application
- We’re looking for a Head of Design to join our team
- Oversee the creative direction of Saturn’s product
- Manage, coach, and provide directed feedback to product designers
- Conceptualize, design, and prototype innovative new features, building alignment with critical cross-functional stakeholders, particularly product management and leadership
- Deeply understand user needs and continuously improve existing features
- Improve and direct all parts of the design process like, initial research, brainstorming, product design, visual design, design critiques, sprints, engineering hand-off, polish and delivery
- Hire designers to scale the team as Saturn scales
Our take
Saturn is attempting to rejuvenate the social-media space with a calendar-based app for high-schoolers to track their schedules, interact with classmates, and access important information. By layering messaging and other social features on top of a calendar feature, built especially for hectic school schedules, Saturn has seen explosive growth and is now active in institutions across the US.
Despite claiming this early success, the app has more recently been plagued by safety concerns - with parents claiming they were able to create fake profiles with little issue and access information including links to students' other social accounts and even their schedules. It has responded quickly with promises to improve security, but for now the damage to Saturn's reputation is clear - and it may take a while for it to find its momentum again.
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Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$44m
LATE VC
Apr 2019
$9m
SEED
Total funding: $53m
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
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Leadership
Dylan Diamond
(CEO)Attended Wharton in Management with a BS in engineering. Worked at Tesla, and is a Thiel Fellow.
Max Baron
(COO/CSO)Attended Wharton School. Previously founded a brand agency called Havas.
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