About Fieldguide

Fieldguide is an automation and collaboration platform for modern assurance and advisory firms that digitizes the end-to-end engagement workflow on a single platform. Built by former Big Four practitioners and experienced technology leaders, Fieldguide is trusted by top CPA firms to improve margins, win new business, and build stronger client relationships. We’re based in San Francisco, CA, but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. We're backed by top investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Y Combinator, Floodgate, Elad Gil, Justin Kan, Qasar Younis, Eric Ries, and more.

About the role

About Us:

Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners specifically within cybersecurity, privacy, and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance). Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.

We’re based in San Francisco, CA, but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. We're backed by top investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Y Combinator, Floodgate, Elad Gil, Justin Kan, Qasar Younis, Eric Ries, and more.

We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide’s team is inclusive, driven, humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building, seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other's growth.

As an early stage start-up employee, you’ll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by eliminating up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you will find a home at Fieldguide.

Design at Fieldguide:

Our design team consists of three innovative individuals dedicated to crafting exceptional experiences for our valued customers. We prioritize innovation and excellence, focusing on creating seamless interactions across the Fieldguide Advisory & Audit platform. By doing so, we assist our customers in achieving higher quality Engagements and enhanced efficiency. We collaborate closely and proactively with the Product team to streamline complex workflows and iterate towards elegant product solutions. Join our hyper-collaborative design team and experience autonomy, ownership, and significant impact across the entire product.

About the Role:

As a Senior Product Designer, you will play a pivotal role in driving the next phase of product features to scale Fieldguide into a global platform for all Audit and Advisory needs. You will be instrumental in evolving our design process, taking ownership of entire projects, and contributing to the growth of a diverse team that prioritizes our users' voices and delivers outstanding experiences consistently.

This position is ideal for an individual contributor who possesses a genuine desire to learn from the best, advocate for our users' needs, work at a fast pace, and make decisive decisions. You will lead the charge within one of our core teams to optimize the day-to-day operations for audit teams, managers, and partners.

What You'll Do:

• Lead design and user experience for significant parts of our core product, contributing to the design process from prioritization through launch
• Embrace a culture of learning and growth, welcoming candid feedback and providing constructive input
• Demonstrate exceptional visual UI skills, rapidly ideating and producing design concepts, creating prototypes, and leveraging user feedback/data to drive improvements
• Advocate for the user's voice through various means such as research, analytics, or other tools, ensuring that decisions are backed by insights and thorough research. Comfortably engage with customers in meetings to gather feedback and insights, leveraging research findings to inform design decisions and enhance the user experience
• Collaborate with the design team to refine our long-term product vision, design systems, brand guidelines, and internal design collaboration process
• Exhibit creative thinking and strategic execution, partnering with product and engineering teams to drive innovation forward
• Engage in daily team rituals such as design critiques, story creation, and weekly stand-ups
• Assist in hiring efforts to expand the design team and bring diverse perspectives to our design process

About You:

• Minimum 5 years of tech/startup or digital product agency experience, or equivalent
• Experience with end-to-end (hybrid UX and UI) product design for products with heavy workflows and complex data.
• Extraordinary visual design skills and strong understanding of UX principles
• Experience leading customer research sessions, aggregating insights, and communicating findings to product managers, engineers, and executives.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills to effectively articulate and defend design decisions while navigating complex product and policy considerations

Nice to Haves:

• Experience working with tools including but not limited to Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Framer, Shortcut, FullStory, Slack, Google Apps, Chrome Console
• Experience working on products in both B2B and B2C companies
• A strong understanding of software engineering workflows and principles is encouraged

More about Fieldguide:

Fieldguide is a values-based company. Our values are:

• Fearless - Inspire & break down seemingly impossible walls.
• Fast - Launch fast with excellence, iterate to perfection.
• Lovable - ​​Deliver happiness & 11 star experiences.
• Owners - Execute & run the business with ownership.
• Win-win - Create mutual value & earn trust for life.
• Inclusive - Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams.

Some of our benefits include:

• Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership
• Unlimited PTO
• Wellness benefits, including a bundle of free therapy sessions
• 401k
• Technology & Work from Home reimbursement
• Flexible work schedules

Technology

We're looking for early-stage engineers with experience in the following:

• Complex web tech stacks consisting of several of the following: JavaScript/TypeScript, React, GraphQL, NodeJS, Hasura, Postgres, and/or AWS
• Architecting large features and determining the best technologies for the job
• Test and automation tools like Jest and Cypress
• DevOps and continuous integration/delivery best practices
• Information security best practices
• Collaborating on all aspects of product strategy and UX
• Working directly with customers and fixing bugs
• Shaping a young tech stack, product, and engineering processes

We greatly value learning and invest in our team members. As we build the company together, we’ll map your professional interests and goals to ensure you’re learning not only how to be a better engineer, but also growing towards your ideal role in the future.

Fieldguide is committed to building a diverse and inclusive company that celebrates individuals of all backgrounds. We’re an equal opportunity employer and encourage all applicants.