Founding Product Designer at Roame (S23)
$100K - $175K  •  0.25% - 0.75%
Flight search engine using credit card points and miles
San Francisco, CA, US
Full-time
3+ years
About Roame

Roame is Google Flights for your credit card points and miles. We search across airlines to find the best flight redemptions to help users maximize their points.

About the role
Skills: Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Figma

About Roame

Roame is a flight search engine using credit card points and miles. Over 1 million travelers rely on Roame to maximize their rewards and save tens of millions of dollars on their dream vacations

We are backed by top investors including Y Combinator, Goodwater, Accel’s starters fund, and angel investors including the leading figure within points.

The Role

We’re hiring a Founding Product Designer with a strong background in UI/UX, visual design, branding, and video production. You’ll have complete ownership of our design strategy and execution, working directly with the CEO and collaborating closely with engineering.

The ideal candidate will have an owner mentality, can wear many hats, and is interested in points/aviation/travel.

This role is based in our San Francisco office with 5 days a week in person.

What You'll Do

  • Design Interfaces: Design new experiences or layouts that evolve and define visual systems for our website and social platforms using Figma and v0. Engage directly with customers to shape product design.
  • Design flows and experiences that simplify and distill down complex actions into usable interfaces
  • Craft Visuals: Create engaging visuals and dynamic video content for marketing, launches, and case studies.
  • Drive Branding: Ensure design consistency across Roame’s brand identity.
  • Collaborate Cross-functionally: Work directly with founders and the team to align design strategies with business goals.
  • Innovate: Stay ahead of design trends, ensuring Roame remains visually compelling and competitive. Contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of Roame products
  • 100% Ownership: Being comfortable with ownership and failure

Who are we looking for?

  • Passionate about travel, aviation, and credit card points
  • Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field
  • 4+ years experience in similar roles, building and shipping multiple features that are broad/ambiguous in scope and encompass an end-to-end experience across a variety of platforms
  • 4+ years of interaction design experience with knowledge to define how an experience should behave based on understanding people's needs, plus consideration of how this product will scale. Use appropriate prototyping tools to demonstrate how a particular flow or interaction will work
  • 4+ years of visual design experience with proficiency in typography, desktop/mobile UI, color, layout, iconography and aesthetic sense and how these elements impact product function
  • 4+ years of strategic product thinking with experience in developing product goals, identifying opportunities, and making decisions based on the impact to people and the company
  • Independent and proactive—able to fully own projects from concept to delivery without oversight. Comfortable in fast-paced environments with rapid iteration cycles
  • Strong proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, prototyping, and graphic design
  • Experience in video editing (Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, or Final Cut Pro) is a plus

Why join Roame?

  • Transform the travel and rewards industry alongside passionate colleagues
  • Salary Range: $100,000 - $175,000
  • Equity: 0.25% to 0.75%
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) available
  • Generous 401(k) with matching
  • Commuter benefits
  • Free lunches at our San Francisco office
  • Company offsites featuring business-class travel and luxury hotels (using points, naturally).

Our company culture, or why you may or may not be excited about joining us:

  • Strong work ethic is a significant competitive advantage

    As a startup we are trying to change the world and take on many large competitors. If this were easy, everyone would be doing it. Raw hours make a huge difference when facing overwhelming odds. We believe that having a strong work ethic is a competitive advantage, and we expect everyone at Roame to put in their best effort when they’re at work.

  • Going above and beyond

    Have an idea? Disagree with folks (founders)? Action speaks orders of magnitude louder than words, show us. Speaking up is not for everyone, but building to prove/disprove is. Our job is to delight our customers, anything to make their lives magical is in line with our mission. We got here because lightning struck the same place multiple times, but not without taking the first step. We can’t resist passion especially when it grows greater than ours.

  • Take ownership and be accountable

    We can rely on each member of the team to get their work done. When we say we'll do something - we get it done without anyone checking in on us. This way, we can establish a culture of trust and not micromanage each other. We are as strong as our weakest link and we aim to help one another to complete our tasks.

  • Be Nice

    We’re a family here, be nice to each other. We follow radical candor to get things done, we are a no-passive-aggressive shop, truth is hard to swallow, doesn’t mean it has to be delivered with malice. Egos are left at home, kindness is how we support each other. We are always improving at this.

  • No filibustering; Disagree and commit

    We can disagree and commit. Not all of our ideas will be implemented, and sometimes the group will decide to do something one of us disagrees with. Even if we disagree with the decision, we commit to getting it done. It's counterproductive to keep arguing and slow down implementation efforts; better to get it done quickly and see if it actually works instead of speculating otherwise.

Technology

We are tech stack agnostic, however, we value two things 1. Developer productive 2. Iteration speed. For now, we're on AWS deployed via Codepipeline, using Python + Nextjs

Interview Process

Please submit the following to apply

  1. To apply, please submit your portfolio and LinkedIn
  2. Let us know why you are the best person for this role.
  3. Please tell us in one or two sentences about the most impressive thing that you have built or achieved.

Timeline

  1. Interview with CEO
  2. Interview with CTO
  3. 2 week trial/project

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