About Vendr
Vendr helps people buy and sell software without friction. As the creator and leader of the SaaS buying category, Vendr has saved companies millions of dollars across tens of thousands of software purchases.
If you're eager to advance in your career and are committed to establishing a fair and transparent software purchasing ecosystem supported by top-notch data, you’ve come to the right place.
Our headquarters is in Boston, Mass., with locations in Charleston, S.C and London, England. We have employees globally who work both in-person and remotely.
At Vendr, our culture serves our team to deliver their best work. We prioritize a data-driven and transparent approach, focusing on velocity. We believe in doing what's right, not prioritizing who is right. We cultivate a curious mindset to seek out the truth and share data with those who can benefit.
Above all, kindness is at the core of our culture, where generosity and consideration for others are highly valued. In everything we do, honesty and transparency are paramount, as they're essential in building trust with our customers and one another.
→ Learn more about our values.
Since 2019, we have:
- Managed billions in software spend on behalf of our customers
- Saved hundreds of millions of dollars for our customers across tens of thousands of software negotiations
- Provided our customers with unprecedented visibility into their software stacks, enabling them to identify opportunities for improvement and cost savings
- Utilized our industry-leading data to make the SaaS buying process more clear, transparent and accessible
- Assisted our customers in developing a data-driven approach to SaaS purchasing
- Collaborated with professionals in finance, IT, procurement, and department heads to enhance their process maturity and modernize their business processes
We want you to join us on our mission to fix how companies buy SaaS. We want to hear from you if you're looking for an opportunity to make a significant impact, solve interesting challenges, and help customers. Join Vendr's pioneering teams and help transform how companies discover, purchase, and manage software.
Vendr is a fast-moving startup building a free, consumer-grade B2B platform that finance and procurement leaders turn to when looking to control SaaS costs. As the ideal candidate, you have deep experience in product led growth tactics, have a strong sense of visual design, look to deliver delight in each and every interaction, and are an expert when it comes to UX best practices. You also love running in hyper-accelerated cycles, and are excited about capitalizing on daily PLG funnel metrics and FullStory sessions that will lead to improved conversion rates.
As the product designer for our Activation team, you will be directly responsible for ensuring that hundreds of freemium prospects activate within our platform and expand usage throughout their organization. You are squarely focused on reducing time to value by driving users to that “Aha!” moment as quickly as possible. You love metrics and are data-driven. You refuse to deliver anything less than highly polished, consumer-grade experiences. Finally, you are a scientist at heart: creating hypotheses, running experiments, evaluating results, then doing it all over again.
Qualifications
- At least 10 years of experience in Product Design
- At least 4 years product led growth experience in a fast-paced start-up
- Experience in a high-growth B2B SaaS start-up (Series A or Series B) is required
Exceptional visual design and UX skills, with a strong portfolio showcasing metric success in product led growth. Deep familiarity with onboarding best practices, activation tactics, lifecycle nurturing, rapid experimentation, and growth loops is a must.
- Startup experience, with a proven track record of delivering successful product designs in an extremely fast-paced environment.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use data to drive decision-making.
- Experience collaborating tightly with marketing on holistic user journeys
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Incredibly strong attention to detail, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.
- Bachelor's degree in a related field. Bonus points for any UX certifications.
Responsibilities
- Product design: Create elegant, intuitive experiences that align with best practices, deliver unexpected delight, and ultimately lead to measurable customer impact.
- Design strategy: Understand our corporate mission, the competitive landscape, the gaps and opportunities in our product experience, and assess emergent opportunities around UX.
- Design systems: Defend and champion our design guidelines, evolve best practices and standards, and help drive Vendr’s design system forward at a tactical level.
- UX research: Personally initiate and conduct research projects to help evaluate product designs, build foundational knowledge, understand JTBD, and define user journeys.
- Design critiques: Contribute to a process where Product Designers across pods can share current projects in a way that brings visibility and invites stakeholder feedback.
- Product expertise: Establish and maintain a comprehensive understanding of Vendr’s entire platform in order to identify, propose, and help direct product and UX improvements. Be capable of expertly providing product demonstrations to customers and internal teams.
- Process adherence: Ensure that you are well-integrated into the established design process, following our standards with a high attention to detail. Advocate for changes that help PMs, engineers, and UX work together to efficiently deliver an exceptional experience.
- Customer obsession: Directly participate in customer and prospect calls to keep a pulse on sentiment, and to help identify and prioritize opportunities. Watch FullStory obsessively.
- UX evangelism: Ensure UX processes are prioritized and valued to by working with key stakeholders to identify opportunities for better cross-functional collaboration
Why Vendr
- We’re a disruptor - we’re changing the way SaaS is purchased and managed
- We have the right value proposition at this time, (we save companies time and money and help them grow efficiently)
- We’re a startup with durable growth
- We have great people and a strong culture, (check out our values here)
- Competitive pay & benefits **applicable to U.S. employees, ask our team for details on our International benefits**
- Medical, Dental, Vision with 75% company-paid premiums
- HSA contribution
- Flexible PTO
- 12 paid company holidays in addition to PTO
- 4% 401k matching with no vesting period
- WFH stipend
- Education & wellness reimbursement
- All Mac environment
Vendr is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law. While we are interested in qualified applicants who are permanently eligible to work for any employer in the United States, we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship for employment visas at this time.
To all recruitment agencies: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
