Staff Designer, Product Growth - Apollo.io
San Francisco, CA
About the Job
Apollo.io is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 270 million B2B contacts, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io turns prospects into customers. Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members. Apollo.io is growing rapidly, with 900% revenue growth since 2021, and is looking for world-class talent to keep building with us.
Your Role & Mission
As a Staff Product Designer at Apollo.io, your mission extends beyond traditional design; it's about fueling our platform's growth through strategic, data-informed design decisions. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Apollo, utilizing your expertise to not only craft compelling product experiences but also to drive key growth and activation metrics.
Our Product Managers, Design, and Engineering teams are structured as Squads focused on several product core features. You will be on the Activation squad alongside one Group Product Manager and one Engineering Director. You will also regularly collaborate with designers or design leaders from other groups to share learnings and ensure a cohesive user experience.
Daily Adventures & Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineers within your squad, focusing on leveraging design to enhance user activation, engagement, and retention.
- Utilize a data-driven approach to inform design decisions, incorporating A/B testing, user research, and analytics to understand impact on growth metrics.
- Spearhead initiatives to optimize our first time user experience, aiming to improve conversion rates and enhance overall user satisfaction.
- Providing planning guidance to your team.
- Working with Engineers on your squad to understand constraints, handoff designs, and run design QA.
- Collaborating with your squad during Weekly Sprint planning & Daily Standups to ensure that we build the best experience.
- Collaborating with other Designers to provide feedback, share + learn best practices & maintain a cohesive experience in the product.
- Using & building upon our design system to update portions of your surface.
- Collaborating with your squad to identify the highest impact areas to work on, develop hypotheses, test, and iterate.
Skills & Competencies
- 8+ years of experience in product design, with a significant focus on Growth design strategies in web-based products.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in designing for growth, showcasing successful experiments that have led to increased user engagement and conversion.
- You're a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment, working on multiple projects simultaneously.
- You have experience creating and maintaining components across multiple product surfaces in Figma.
- You are a voracious learner, constantly trying to learn how to improve customer experience and drive core metrics. Continuously learns new industry standards, staying up to date with how to get the most out of modern design tools, including Figma.
- You are passionate about typography and copywriting and know how to write a simple, compelling microcopy to support your UI design.
- You're experimentation-oriented – You can conduct user interviews, analyze the results of interviews, form hypotheses, test hypotheses with users via prototypes or product experimentation, and iterate.
- No big ego – we can uphold excellent rhythms within our Product Management, Engineering & Design squads because each member has respect for each other and has a shared understanding of the goals, vision, and principles that Apollo operates on.
- You're highly interested in user-centric design – we like to push each other to stay at the cutting edge of our field :)
Bonus
- Lead a small team.
- Content design experience.
- Brand design experience
What You'll Love About Apollo
Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees' careers. The team embraces that we have a sole purpose: to help customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform. This mindset opens us up to a lot of creative approaches to making customers successful at scale. You'll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator. We're very collaborative at Apollo, so you'll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals. You'll be supported and encouraged to experiment and take educated risks that lead to big wins. And, you'll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!