Product Designer

Company

We build AI technology for the metals industries. Our products work reliably in high-volume production environments 24/7, making billions of dollars worth of decisions.

Because we work at the intersection of metals industries and AI, we solve problems involving manufacturing operations, physics and chemistry, software engineering, AI, and product design.

Our teams spend a lot of time on site, with the customer, understanding their problems first hand and iterating quickly to solve them.

We try to work with minimal process and permission, but ample support and collaboration. We rarely have a scheduled meeting, but we all work in the office, discussions occur continuously throughout the day, and no request for help goes unanswered for more than a few minutes. Features get shipped to production every day. Many are designed, developed, and shipped on the customer’s site, without a central planning process.

Candidates

For all roles, we are looking for people with the following attributes:

  • Exceptional ability. Whether in work, school, side projects, or elsewhere, you will have demonstrated exceptional ability. We are open minded about the exact form this takes. Some examples we look for:

    • You have played a key role in an early stage startup

    • You have won hackathons, math, or physics competitions

    • You have an impressive side project, like a popular blog or open source library.

  • Excellent communication. In speech and writing.

  • Conscientiousness. You want to do good work, regardless of oversight.

  • You are excited to have freedom to work without too much process and friction, but at the same time, excited to share ideas and work closely with others.

  • You’re excited to work in the metals industries, and everything that goes with it. That means excited to travel, spend time in massive factories, meeting and working with a wide range of people.

  • You are comfortable working in uncertain and dynamic environments.

Role

As a Product Designer, you will work closely with our engineers and our customers to design our product. This Includes:

  • Help to design and decide the overall direction of our products.

  • Work on-site with our customers in a metals industry setting to understand their problems first hand, design solutions, and test them in close collaboration with our Forward Deployed Engineers and Deployment Strategists.

  • Execute the full product design life cycle in a self-motivated and self-managed way, including: discovery, ideation, prototyping, testing.

  • Design our products at every level. This includes high level conceptual design, user journeys, and microscopic aesthetics of software interfaces.

  • Balance short term priorities to solve immediate customer needs with long term product strategy.

You will have:

  • Great intuition for what users want and how to translate this into a product

  • Excellent sense of aesthetics and attention to detail

  • You are very fast and experienced in Figma or similar tools

  • Some engineering background or knowledge. We work in a very technical field. Ideally you will have a bachelors degree or equivalent knowledge in physics, engineering, compsci, or similar.

We are open to a wide range of backgrounds, but some examples we expect to see are:

  • UI/UX designers

  • Product managers

  • Engineers with product focus

You will also:

  • Prefer mostly work in the office, colocated with your team, rather than from home.

  • Be excited to travel to customer sites up to 25% of the time so that you can understand their problems first hand.

Apply

  1. Email careers@scrapchef.ai. Please include - in your CV or in the body of the email - a list of 3-5 things you have done that you are proud of and that are relevant to the attributes we are looking for. Where possible, please include links to your work, such as GitHub, YouTube, or portfolios.

  2. We will do two or more telephone screenings. At least one will be with the CEO.

  3. You will work on something real with the team.