User Experience Alchemist (Founding Sr. UX Designer)

Lightup enables data-driven businesses to achieve their full potential. Modern businesses are dealing with unprecedented volumes of real-time data, operating in environments that are constantly changing internally and externally. To get the most out of data-driven operations, businesses need the ability to continuously measure the performance of their data-driven operations at fine granularity across the entire pipeline. Lightup is enabling businesses to continuously track vitals of their data-driven operations at the finest granularity, catch problems before their customers do, and fix them before they impact business. 

The founding team brings together a unique combination of experience in big data, stream processing and rigorous statistical signal processing - crucial for building a data stability platform. We have over three decades of industry experience in multiple game changing startups and industry stalwarts like Google, GlobalFoundries and VMware. Lightup is funded by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Spectrum28. 

Lightup is looking for a user-experience designer. User experience is very important to us at Lightup. We believe in creating innovative, easy to use and beautiful products that our users love. We want to understand our user's needs, emotions and behaviors. We want that deliberate understanding to inform how we design and build our product. We aren't a routine bland enterprise startup and we want don't want our product to be as well.

You bring the following skillsets and attributes to Lightup:
  • Understand how to handle large amounts of data and be able to visualize it effectively (Data visualization)
  • Understand how to focus their attention on the most important issue at hand 
  • Build high quality, usable and simple user workflows
  • Work with lots of customers and be able to distill key improvements to the product
  • Have clear and concise communication skills both when interfacing with the customer as well as working with engineers to build out the interface
  • Understand web technologies and what libraries and tools are
  • Understand engineering tradeoffs when designing UI - use reusable components, reusable widgets, simple implementation.
  • Understand UI designs that are low latency and fast
  • How to distill simplicity from complex requirements. Be able to prioritize the most important requirements from ambiguous inputs. 
  • Clear communication - ability to explain why certain things have to be a certain way.
  • User research 
  • Interaction Design

You understand the tools of the trade like for example, Figma, Sketch, Invision, Marvel, Overflow. Knowledge of Javascript and Javascript frameworks is a plus.

What will you do at Lightup:
  • Set design vision for the product
  • Research, interview, design, iterate, finalize MVP UX design for the company
  • Work with engineering on UI and backend design
  • Update based on customer feedback or changing market
  • Design and consult on projects across product management, marketing and engineering teams
  • Communicate with customers and stakeholders within the company

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