Product Designer

About Forward

Forward is a consulting firm that works exclusively with independent consultants to help startups build their engineering organizations.

About the Work

Company Stage: Seed

Keywords: Product Design

Term: 12+ months

Hours per week: 40

Budget: $3000-$6000/month

Timeline: Immediate

Timezone Constraints: 5 hours overlap with ET

Geographic Constraints: None

Context:

We’re working with seed stage startup that’s creating a unified interface that can be used to access information across a wide variety platforms - slack, email, notion, google drive, etc.

They have some very senior advisors based in NYC and SF helping them out but they need a full time, in house, product designer to help them push things forward.

Specifically, they’d be looking for help on the UX front, creating PRDs, and conducting user research in roughly that order.

About You

Roughly in order of importance:

  • You have experience operating as a UX designer
  • You have experience collaborating directly with engineers
  • You have experience working with early stage startups
  • You have experience working on productivity tools and/or complex applications
  • You have 8+ years experience working as a designer

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