Our product designers are passionate about creating delightful experiences to make daily self-care a norm, and we’re looking for similarly passionate folks who can thrive in our fast-paced startup environment!
To help setup candidates for success, this outlines the expectations for our interview loop where there would be opportunities to meet our cofounders, designers, and cross-functional teammates.
After reviewing portfolios, our team will reach out to schedule an introductory info chat for candidates who would be moving forward. We’ll discuss your background, what you’re looking for in your next role, and any questions you have about the team. If it feels like there’s a mutual fit, we’ll kick off the official interview loop with you!
Our interviews give candidates the opportunity to demonstrate how they think and work as designers. We’re building a team of senior+ designers, those who push the boundaries on playfulness, visuals, and nuanced product challenges. These interviews will dive into the design skills and cultural values that are important at Finch. As we’re a remote team, all interviews will be conducted virtually over Google Meets.
Candidates will prepare a ~15-20 min virtual presentation that highlights relevant and work with remaining time for Q&A. We recommend choosing 2-3 case studies, ideally with mobile consumer product challenges if possible. Candidates can choose the presentation format (e.g., Google Slides, Figma) for diving into the work.
Time: up to 45 min total, with ~15-20 min candidate presentation
Candidates complete a take-home exercise where we will share a prompt to design a playful mobile product experience for a topic of the candidate’s choice. Majority of candidates have not worked on a product quite like Finch before and this gives folks an opportunity to showcase how they design within constraints relevant to Finch.
Since we recognize that there is time coordination involved for this exercise, we give candidates 7 days to complete it. When candidates are done, they will submit their designs and share how much time they’ve spent where we’ll calibrate our evaluation based on the time spent. We intentionally rely on candidates to assess what’s most important to focus their time on, as this reflects the level of independence that Finch designers need to navigate within our team.
The take-home exercise may be paired with a deep dive discussion. During the deep dive, candidates can expect to walk through their designs and thought process in the first 10-15 mins. This is intended to be a casual conversation with a designer from our team. Depending on where the conversation leads, there there may be opportunities to riff and whiteboard off of the design.
Time: take-home, 1 hr deep dive