Overview:

Grata is the first search engine for company discovery, providing a single source of truth for investors into small and medium-sized companies. Grata users save hours a week (if not days) on their research into millions of small and medium businesses due to our cutting-edge search technology (leveraging ‘Generative AI,’ ‘NLP’ and ‘ML’). Design is one of the key reasons we are leading in the market, and why users chose us over the competition.

We’ve recently experienced significant growth and raised capital from top investors who built Google and transformed the finance industry. We are now looking to add another designer to our team. As a product designer, you’ll have a major impact in shaping the design of all products and marketing at Grata.

In this role you’ll:

• Partner closely with PMs, Engineers, and company leadership to launch critical features and improvements in the product (web, iOS, and android)
• Learn our customer, understand their goals and pain points, listen to their feedback, and translate those insights into successful designs and product decisions.
• Lead initiatives and features across the entire product - doing hands-on user research, UX design, UI design, and working closely with engineering to ensure successful product launches.
• Design with lean startup pragmatism, while simultaneously ensuring consistency, polish, and delight throughout the entire product experience.
• Collaborate on Grata’s design processes and systems, helping to create a design-forward company that puts end user experience at the center of everything.
• Partner closely with our marketing team to design visuals promoting Grata and these new
• Report to our Product Design Lead

About You:

• 2-4 years in-house product design experience
• Proficient in Figma
• Detail oriented with a track record of taking products from inception to successful launch, including UX, UI, user research and design QA.
• Track record of creating clean, beautiful UI, with an understanding reusable UI components (bonus points for maintaining UI systems)
• User-centered design thinker and problem solver, with experience conducting effective user research and user testing
• Great collaborator and communicator with cross-functional teams such as engineering, product management, customer success and marketing
• Based in New York City or willing to relocate, and open to a hybrid working environment requiring at least 3 days in-office per week

Nice to Have:

• Background or experience with marketing design or graphic design
• B2B experience or experience designing powerful search applications

Perks & Benefits at Grata:

• Unlimited PTO policy
• Flexible Work Location policy: all employees are given a bank of time (up to 14 weeks!) of working remotely
• Medical, dental, vision plans: we offer plans with 100% coverage of premiums for employees
• 12 weeks of parental leave
• 401k
• Stock options for all of our employees
• Equity Commuter benefits
• Company-sponsored lunch through Grubhub on a weekly basis
• Dog-friendly office

About Grata:

Grata is the first search engine for company discovery, providing a single source of truth to find small to middle market private companies. We are developing cutting-edge search technology leveraging NLP and ML to automate the B2B research process on millions of small and medium businesses in the U.S. We’ve recently experienced significant growth and raised capital from top investors who built Google and transformed the finance industry.

When we find the right person, we strive to put our best foot forward with an offer we hope you find compelling. Actual compensation packages at the time of offers are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including, but not limited to: what you’d like to be paid, the skills/experience you bring and any role-dependent factors such as software expertise, what similar jobs pay in the NYC area, and our commitment to equal pay for equal work among those you’ll be working with. The compensation range for this role is targeted at $100,000-$140,000, plus equity. Transparency is a core value at Grata, and we welcome direct conversations with each candidate about compensation in all of our initial calls.

Grata is committed to building an inclusive, equitable, and diverse organization. We embrace equal opportunity for all applicants and seek to foster a culture of belonging for our employees. We recognize and appreciate that the more inclusive we are, the better we will function as a team. Grata welcomes qualified applicants of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or family status, disability, military veteran status, and any other status or background.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. At this time, we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa.