Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

About Air

Air is a Creative Ops System for Marketers. Our product automates the mindless tasks that marketers do every day to manage content and unlocks creativity through image recognition, automated versioning, and approval workflows. We launched in March 2021 and have raised $38M+ from world-class venture capital groups including Tiger Global, Headline Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, WndrCo, and Slack Ventures.

Location: NYC

This is a role requiring in-office attendance at least 3 days/week.

At Air, our Principal Designer will lead by example, working hands-on to deliver exceptional design outcomes. This role is focused on executing high-impact product design with minimal oversight. If you're passionate about shaping design strategy, tackling complex challenges, and driving innovative solutions that impact users and the business, this role will allow you to lead by example and leave a lasting mark on Air's product direction.

• Shape and drive Air’s overarching design vision, ensuring alignment with customer needs and company goals.
• Leverage your design expertise to tackle complex challenges and deliver high-quality, functional products that stand out in the market.
• Lead user research initiatives, synthesizing qualitative and quantitative insights to continuously refine design approaches.
• Mentor and elevate junior designers, fostering a strong culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and excellence.
• Influence cross-functional processes, identifying and implementing opportunities to refine design workflows across teams.

Requirements

Your experience

• You have 8+ years of experience in product design within a fast-paced, high-growth environment, with a proven track record of leading and developing design teams, ideally in SaaS or technology-driven businesses.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with experience presenting design concepts, strategy, and research findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to take concepts and ideas to execution and close, embracing both big-picture objectives and following through on details.
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated with a passion for pixel perfection, consistency, organization, usability, and discoverability.
• Proficiency with Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and prototyping tools. Familiarity with HTML / CSS / Javascript is a plus!

Benefits

Our company culture was built around a tireless pursuit to be the best at what we do. We're entrepreneurial and focused: tackling problems head-on without ego. We communicate with empathy. We speak directly, listen thoughtfully, and ask questions. We previously worked out of a cozy warehouse in Brooklyn, but we're now distributed between two offices in New York City and Toronto.

Air contributes 90% to medical, dental, and vision insurance and 75% to dependent coverage. Employees also have life insurance, disability insurance, and membership to One Medical. We offer a generous work-from-home stipend, professional development reimbursement, and unlimited vacation days. Although we are still early stage, we are always seeking ways to invest in the long-term health, wellness, and continued education of our employees.

At Air, we believe that it takes a diversity of thought, culture, race, sexual orientation, and outlook to build a world-class business. We value unique contributions and welcome people of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to join us at Air.

If based in US, the compensation range for this role is US $160-249K.
This is a role requiring in-office attendance at least 3 days/week!

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