Meet Accord

‍About Accord

Accord is an early-stage, YCombinator startup (YC 2020) founded by early Stripe, Adobe, and Google Cloud employees. After years designing processes for their scaling multi-billion dollar sales orgs, they set out to focus on the underlying people problems associated with buying/selling technology.

Accord is a project management platform, purpose-built for B2B sales. It’s like Asana, Trello, or Atlassian, but uniquely customer-facing, so sales reps and buyers can work together on the same platform and stay aligned during complex sales cycles. This is often messy and organized using Excel Spreadsheets, email, and Slack. 

You will be working with a company that’s given design a seat at the table from inception, with a founding team and advisors from design-driven companies like Stripe, Airbnb, and more. Our goal is to bring the quality of consumer products to the enterprise (think Stripe, Dropbox, Slack). This is an opportunity to put your mark on promising company's product, brand, and experience from start to finish.

About the Role

Experienced product designer needed to…

• Take feature briefing documents and early wireframes and turn them into high-fidelity, click-through prototypes
• Offer feedback and recommendations to improve feature briefing documents and wireframes
• Prototypes will be used by frontend engineers to build product
• Prototypes to be created in Figma
• We have very high expectations for design - it must be functional and beautiful
• You will have the time and space to build beautiful products
• We have a very early design system and design language (partially formed)
• Full-time availability for the next 2 - 3 months
• The job can grow into a full-time position, if willing to move to San Francisco 
• You'll be 80% UI and 20% UX. As you become more familiar with the role you’ll be given more responsibility on the UX side of things

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Job Requirements

Product designer should...

• Have experience working with engineers and know what they need to see from a design in order to build
• Experience with Figma
• You must operate on Pacific Time or within a few hours of it
• +4 years of experience with UI/UX

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Nice to haves

Nice but not necessary. 

• Experience designing complex applications
• Experience designing enterprise technology
• Experience designing SaaS tools
• Experience designing consumer technology
• Located in San Francisco and able to work from our office
• Ability to travel to San Francisco

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‍About Accord

Accord is an early-stage, YCombinator startup (YC 2020) founded by early Stripe, Adobe, and Google Cloud employees. After years designing processes for their scaling multi-billion dollar sales orgs, we set out to focus on the underlying people problems associated with buying/selling technology.

Accord is a project management platform, purpose-built for B2B sales. It’s like Asana, Trello, or Atlassian, but uniquely customer-facing, so sales reps and buyers can work together on the same platform and stay aligned during complex sales cycles. This is often messy and organized using Excel Spreadsheets, email, and Slack. 

We’re an international (Canadian, Italian, Indian) team, and passionate about building an inclusive, design-first company. We also have early traction with paying customers and a live product.

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About the Role 

We’re seeking a design lead to join the founding team and shape Accord into an industry-leader in design. Our goal is to bring the quality of consumer products to the enterprise (think Stripe, Dropbox, Slack). This is an opportunity to define and design a promising company's product, brand, and experience from start to finish. 

We're in a unique position to change the way sales teams and buyers collaborate, and you'll be directly responsible for crafting that experience. You’ll use your range of skills in product, interaction, and visual design to elevate our existing foundation into a unified experience. Your primary responsibility is product design. As an early designer, you’ll also have the flexibility and initiative to take on design challenges that are important to the company, including brand, marketing materials, pitch decks, and more. 

You would be joining a company that’s given design a seat at the table from inception, with a founding team and advisors from design-driven companies like Stripe, Airbnb, and more. Our team is nimble, so you’ll own your vision and get to see your work come to life in days rather than months. At the same time, we value quality work and giving you the space to do it.

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Comp

$180,000 - $230,000 + Equity Package + Benefits

Requirements

• You’re comfortable with ambiguity and can distill complicated problems into simple and elegant solutions.
• You understand what makes an experience good or bad, and can think through user problems, find reasonable solutions, mock them up in detail, and work with engineers to build them.
• You seek opportunities to solve problems in innovative ways
• You have experience designing for the web and shipping production-level designs
• You love making things beautiful and have a deep understanding of composition, balance, symmetry, and white space, as well as visual tools, such as Sketch and Figma
• You understand the technical limitations behind your decisions and can communicate your ideas to our engineers in prototyping tools or code
• Minimum of 4 years of design experience

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Nice to haves

• Experience with Figma 
• Experience with frontend code
• Experience with product management
• Experience with early-stage startups