Andreessen Horowitz is looking to solve the problem of building systems that help find and connect entrepreneurs, investors, executives, engineers, academics, industry experts, and others in the technology ecosystem to build the world's most enduring companies.
Requirements
- Fluency in Figma and a passion for building detailed, scalable components
- Willingness to context switch and design across many surfaces simultaneously
- Working knowledge of the latest AI design tools, web technologies & front-end architectures
- Ability to operate like a PM, demonstrating first principles thinking and sound judgement to refine roadmaps, requirements & designs
- Experience building consumer or mobile products is a major plus
- Proven history of rapid shipping and iteration at a startup or fast paced environment, owning the end-to-end design process without the support of a large design org
- Strong candidates are likely to have a background in enterprise software that drives high-stakes decision making or other environments with analytical rigor
Responsibilities
- Build, move fast & learn. We ship new and unique technology quickly and often
- Distill ambiguous problems and highly nuanced workflows into intuitive solutions
- Design in the 0-1 phase of the product development lifecycle, as well as the 1-10 iterative phase
- Own each step in the design process, from conception and research to implementation, all the way through deployment, maintenance, and future iterations
- Prototype concepts in Figma or other tools to communicate interactions, animations, and your design vision
- Contribute to our design system, bringing the conviction of your own design language to bear on our products
- Collaborate and bring positive energy to each interaction with our team and cross functional partners
Other
- 3+ years in product design, in mid-level IC roles, building elegant, narrative, and consequential experiences for high-IQ users
- High EQ: Strong customer empathy; you think critically about how our features impact our users, firm, investors, and community
- High IQ: Able to autonomously create novel approaches to complex, unsolved problems and communicate them effectively to non-technical audiences
- Low ego, high empathy, and the capacity to collaborate effectively with diverse teams
- An open, collaborative, I-win-when-the-team-wins approach to problem-solving
