Job Description
We're opening new design roles on the product team: Product Designer and Design Engineer, to share our quest for building an exceptional tool that designers love.
Hi!
I'm Vlad, the founding designer at Paper .
I'm excited to share that we are opening up new principal-level roles on the productteam: Product Designer and Design Engineer, to join us on our quest to build a beautiful, open, quick, collaborative tool that designerslove.
About us
Good design is at the center of Paper .
We started Paper not even two years ago because we love the design space, and there's a special satisfaction in building a tool you're excited to use yourself everyday.
Today, we are incredibly grateful for the momentum: growing revenue, world-class companies asking us to be a bigger part of their workflows, an unusually strong fan base, and a top-tier group of investors behind us, suchas Accel , Basecase , and ICONIQ .
Paper is already used by designers in production at our favoritecompanies:
Roles and requirements
Both roles are principal-level: an extensive body of work and recognition in the industry isexpected.
Product Designer
Exceptional generalist with a home base in product design, plus a track record of creating striking visual design and buildingbrands
Able to lead and direct design work across the company while still being an individual product design contributor on criticalprojects
Expansive knowledge of creative tools andworkflows
Problem-solving mindset; you are allergic tocomplexity
Excited about getting technical and working withengineers




Obsessive about details without losing sight of the biggerpicture
Able to design and implement complex UI features fromscratch
Impressive history of both design and engineeringwork
Unmatched attention to detail and fineinteractions
Comfortable working with very few third-partylibraries
Skilled at UI performance, helping us hit our 120 fpstarget
Values
Highest agency and motivation: startups are hard, we show up every day and makeprogress
Nothing's off limits: you see what needs to happen and you help make ithappen
Always improving: you love analyzing prototypes in a group and helping each other ship qualitywork
High velocity: we ship to production many times perweek
What we offer
You'll have everything to do your best work: great tools, a generous budget for your gear, and flexible hours.
Our team is fully remote, with team members across the Americas, Europe, and Australia, and a yearly team get-together to enjoy each other'scompany.
We're also pretty small—right now, it's just 12 of us.
Each of us values the freedom and leverage that comes from being in a small team, and it's a culture we willmaintain.
Being at an early-stage startup you also get meaningful equity in thecompany.
Take-home and/or a 1–2 week paid trialproject
The objective of the trial project is to ship a complete feature for Paper , working and communicating with the team directly in Slack and GitHub as a regular member.
We will be flexible about how the trial project is arranged according to youravailability.
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