About Gemma Labs

Gemma is a premium shampoo and conditioner company that is revolutionizing the way we buy haircare. Based on your hair and lifestyle data, our scientists determine the perfect formula to fit your unique hair needs. Gemma is haircare made simple through science.

Gemma Labs is Incubating @ Pioneer Square Labs

Pioneer Square Labs (PSL) is a Seattle-based startup studio and venture fund that creates, launches and invests in Pacific Northwest technology startups. The studio is funded by 14 VCs and 50 angel investors from Seattle, Silicon Valley, Colorado and other parts of the country.

‍

THE ROLE

We are looking for a smart, creative, and fun Product Designer with brand, systems, research, user experience, and digital design expertise to join our team. CPG, beauty, or e-commerce experience is a must. You will collaborate with the founder, marketing team, and PSL core team to build the brand, products, and marketing collateral.‍ We are looking for someone who can both create the design strategy as well as quickly execute the strategy on time, on brand, and within our budget.

‍

Please submit an online portfolio demonstrating your experience designing interactive products

‍

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Brand Development

• Facilitate brand workshops to further define Gemma’s brand
• Create mood boards and brand identity options that reflect brand values
• Create, extend and apply brand identities across product and marketing channels
• Work with core team members and key stakeholders in the execution of key business design needs
• Create style guides and documentation to communicate the system

Ideate, Validate and Create

• Collaborate on new concept and campaign development relating to the website, marketing assets, products, and user experience
• Talk to customers to help drive concept affinity
• AB test design concepts that map back to business KPIs and channel performance

Product Design

• Work iteratively on initial concepts, prototypes, and detailed designs informed by user research, marketplace and behavior trends, and your best ideas
• Participate in a hands-on manner through all product phases, from strategy to launch to optimization
• Partner with cross-functional teams to determine business and feature requirements and translate them into thoughtful design solutions
• Concept and design features that will develop deep engagement that will drive company value props and deliver a magical experience to customers
• Translate brand tenets into elegant user interface design
• Validate design concepts with end users
• Drive communication of design guidelines and patterns to ensure a consistent, intuitive experience across digital products
• Develop and refine user-centered design processes and best practices while educating other disciplines of their value

• Develop marketing assets for a variety of mediums including web, social , email, business decks, landing pages, infographics, ads, packaging, video and photography
• Seek out, evaluate, and manage vendors/agencies/freelancers when appropriate

WHO YOU ARE

We are looking for high performers who can be thoughtful and intentional while moving quickly in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. The Senior Designer should balance logic with emotion, and have a proven track record of designing world-class experiences. Success in this environment requires:

• A deep sense of curiosity and proven ability to propose creative concepts during initial project phases and the ability to deliver on those ideas through detailed design
• Proven ability to solve complex UX problems and the product strategy skills to deliver best-in-class visual design solutions
• Experience working in a highly iterative, and collaborative environment where opinions are strong but loosely held
• Proficiency designing user interfaces and experiences, including information architecture, user flows, wireframes, visual design, and prototypes that articulate product design
• Experience working individually and collaboratively, and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
• An appetite to test, learn, iterate, and improve
• A bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous, environment; an ownership attitude
• A love for having fun :)
• Efficiency in Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and prototyping tools
• 6+ years of relevant brand and user interface design experience
• A Bachelor’s degree in a Design or UX-related field of study

‍To be considered, please submit an online portfolio demonstrating your experience designing interactive products