At PitchBook we work to provide global professionals with comprehensive data on the entire venture capital, private equity and M&A landscape so they can discover and execute opportunities with confidence. We credit our success and rapid growth to our cutting-edge products, customer centered attitude and ability to embrace and drive change.

In just over a decade, PitchBook has reached over 1,000 global employees with offices worldwide, and we're not slowing down! Consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work, our culture is at the heart of our success and is driven by excellence, inclusion and fun. At PitchBook we're committed to fostering an open and collaborative work environment.

Role summary:

We are looking for a UX Designer who is interested in stepping into a feature team, learning about our platform and applying your knowledge of the user-centered design process to create great experiences for our customers.

Design team details:

The PitchBook design team consists of 5 feature teams, which are focused on various areas of the application. This role will reside within the Corporate Discovery feature team, which we are currently hiring for and growing with additional product designers.

The Corporate Discovery team is focused on enabling teams to identify market trends and gain powerful new insights that inform their short & long-term corporate growth strategies. Two key business goals for this team are:

• Increase discoverability of content and data across the platform to empower corporate teams to be proactive in their use of PitchBook in order to quickly and easily find new insights into private and public market data.
• Become a necessity for corporations, irrespective of their current investment objectives, by focusing on the ongoing and critical workflows of Corporate Development and Corporate Strategy teams outside of deal execution.

Responsibilities:

Individual contributor goals:

• Design useful, usable & desirable experiences for our Corporate Discovery feature team
• Understand industry expectations and discover customer needs, behaviors & motivations
• Explore various approaches and settle on final designs which fulfill customer & business requirements
• Build consensus through low-fidelity sketches, wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity designs
• Work closely with product managers to solidify specifications for development
• Monitor how your experiences perform and plan for how we can iterate and improve them
• Working with development to ensure all of designs are constructed as intended

Skills and Qualifications:

• Two 2+ years of user experience / product design
• A design portfolio demonstrating depth & breadth
• Knowledge of contemporary design practices for desktop, tablet & phone
• Experience working through design projects from discovery to development
• Understand how visual and interaction design work together to create great user experiences
• Ability to prioritize and balance multiple projects
• Ability to deliver feedback to, and accept feedback from, peers, product managers & leadership
• Strong analytical skills; use qualitative and quantitative data to guide design decisions
• Ability to articulate design rationale and how we can add value to the product
• Clearly communicate with all stakeholders – both in & outside of design
• Reasonable knowledge of visual fundamentals; typography, white space, composition and color
• Humility, enthusiasm and a curious mind plus a focus on building long-term relationships

If you are ready to start the conversation about how you might contribute to all the happenings at PitchBook, submit your resume today! PitchBook appreciates and respects diversity, and as such, we are an equal opportunity employer.