Staff Product Designer

About Us:

The Mind Company is at the forefront of mental fitness and firmly believes that caring for your mind is just as important as caring for your body.

We have a portfolio of award-winning, science-backed apps built to bring mental fitness to every mind, every day. Through Elevate, Balance, and the upcoming Spark app, The Mind Company helps millions of people around the world improve key cognitive and mental wellness skills. Elevate, named Apple’s App of the Year, boosts real-world skills like reading, math, and memory through engaging brain training games and puzzles. Balance, selected as Google Play’s Best App, delivers personalized meditations and wellness tools to reduce stress, improve sleep, sharpen focus, and much more. And Spark, coming soon, makes learning and discovery feel effortless through delightful daily puzzles designed to expand your knowledge of the world.

The Mind Company is a fully remote company of voracious learners and passionate doers, driven by our vision to bring mental fitness to every mind, every day.

If our mission resonates with you, please consider applying!

The Role: 

We’re looking for a stellar Staff Product Designer to help us take our mental fitness tools to the next level. As a part of our world-class design team, you'll work with product-oriented engineers, content strategists, and other stakeholders to help build stunning, thoughtful, and impactful experiences for our millions of users.

This is a fully remote position anywhere in North America or South America; however, we have a preference for candidates based in or around Los Angeles, CA.

How You’ll Make an Impact Here:

• Independently lead complex design projects, delivering beautiful and creative results

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to solve deep problems with simple and elegant solutions that deliver value to our customers

• Utilize strong communication skills to articulate decisions and advocate for design excellence

• Foster talent by mentoring fellow designers to help them develop and improve their skills

• Work lean and fast as part of a small, high-impact, and high-output design team

• Directly influence product and company decisions

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience working on beautifully designed mobile products 

• Design portfolio that demonstrates outstanding UX and UI work

• Deep-rooted user empathy and excellent visual and interaction design skills  

• Comprehensive understanding of mobile design patterns

• Hunger to challenge yourself, learn new things, tackle complex problems, and level up your collaborators

• Highly proficient in Figma

• Self-motivated and proactive

• Collaborative and communicative, with a track record of giving and receiving impactful feedback, sharing insightful opinions, and asking thoughtful questions

Bonus:

• Experience building or working with meditation, educational, or puzzle-based experiences

• Experience working in a fully remote work environment with teammates operating across various time zones

• Experience with motion design and animation using tools such as After Effects or Rive

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive salary and equity

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family

• Distributed team flexibility, with a home-office stipend and co-working reimbursement

• Annual learning, wellness, and travel stipends

• Generous PTO, flexible sick leave, and paid parental leave

• Annual company meetup in fun location

How We Hire:

At The Mind Company, we seek to build high-impact teams with high talent density, and we invest a lot of time and care into the hiring process. Your resume will be reviewed by a human, so we encourage you to keep your resume short (one page should do) and submit it as a PDF.

During the hiring process, you can expect conversational-style sessions and an in-depth portfolio review.

Please note that all communication with applicants will be sent from themindcompany.com or our Applicant Tracking System, Ashby (ashbyhq.com). The Mind Company will never ask you to create a Microsoft Teams or any other online account before your interview process begins, and we do not communicate with candidates via WhatsApp. If you are asked to provide information and do not believe it is a legitimate request from The Mind Company, please contact [email protected] to validate before proceeding.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion:

We believe that there is no single candidate profile that guarantees success in this role. Experience comes in different forms; many skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. If your background is similar to the job description and you think you can excel in this role, please apply and tell us about yourself and the impact you could make at The Mind Company.

We also know that diversity of identity, experience, and thought leads to more creativity, better problem-solving, and wiser decisions, which is why we're dedicated to adding new perspectives to our team. We are an equal opportunity employer; committed to diversity and building an equitable and inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and experiences, and we're taking steps to meet that commitment. We highly encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ folks, veterans, and people with disabilities.