Staff Map Designer

Mapbox is seeking a Staff Map Designer to join their Map Design team, which focuses on creating innovative location interaction solutions. This role involves setting the vision for customizable and beautiful maps, executing designs, and collaborating with product, data, and engineering teams to ensure quality and performance. The designer will drive the basemap roadmap, lead concept design for future map products, and assist enterprise customers with custom map design requests.

Must Have

• Drive the roadmap for basemaps
• Lead concept design for future map-related products and developer tools
• Work with cross-functional teams to define map renderer specification
• Participate in user research/customer success conversations
• Build static and interactive prototypes for sales and customer conversations
• Assist enterprise customers with map design requests
• Contribute to internal tooling around cartographic design workflow
• Proven experience designing maps or map-related products
• Excellent visual design skills
• Ability to rapidly prototype product ideas using Figma or code
• Discipline to manage own schedule
• Excellent communication skills
• Expertise with design tools (Figma, Adobe Creative Suite)
• Expertise in UX design or visual/graphic design
• Experience in shipping successful software products

Good to Have

• Experience in designing for automotive or navigation-focused products
• Familiarity with design frameworks and methods, such as design thinking
• Familiarity with frontend development, command line tools, and Git / Github
• Familiarity with Mapbox Studio & Mapbox GL style specification, including expression syntax

Perks & Benefits

• Supportive health care
• Parental leave
• Flexibility for life events

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.

What We Do

The Map Design team is a small, versatile team of product designers and cartographers who are obsessed with finding systematic solutions to hard problems, and, in the process, inventing the future of how people interact with location. Most recently, we launched Mapbox Standard, a 3D basemap that is setting new standards for digital map design.

We’re looking for a Staff Map Designer to join our team and set the vision for the most beautiful maps that users around the world can customize using Mapbox Studio or use out-of-the-box via our SDKs. The Staff Map Designer will execute the designs for this vision and collaborate with other teams, such as product, data and engineering teams, to ensure the product delivers on quality, performance and desirability.

What You'll Do

• Drive the roadmap for basemaps that Mapbox ships as part of their product portfolio, working closely with engineers from the map rendering and geodata teams
• Lead concept design for future map-related products and developer tools
• Work with cross-functional teams to help define the map renderer specification and be a bar-setter for visual quality
• Participate in user research/customer success conversations to be close to customer needs
• Build static and interactive prototypes for sales and customer conversations
• Assist enterprise customers with map design requests, from building custom base maps to providing consultations on customer’s maps
• Contribute to internal tooling around the cartographic design workflow

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

• Proven experience designing maps or map-related products
• Excellent visual design skills to demonstrate ideas
• Ability to rapidly prototype product ideas using Figma or code
• Discipline to manage your own schedule in alignment with the team’s overall needs
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
• Expertise with design tools, such as Figma or Adobe Creative Suite
• Expertise in UX design or visual/graphic design
• Experience in shipping successful software products

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in designing for automotive or navigation-focused products
• Familiarity with design frameworks and methods, such as design thinking
• Familiarity with frontend development, command line tools, and Git / Github
• Familiarity with Mapbox Studio & Mapbox GL style specification, including expression syntax

What We Value

In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.

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We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.