We’re building a world where it’s okay to meet strangers and build real communities that can help shape our future. We’re looking for someone who thinks this design challenge is as exciting and rewarding as we do.
Meetup has been around the block—we were born back when 3-D pixelated babies danced, bananas shouted "peanut butter jelly time" and phones only had one app: Phone. It turns out that people have a deep, innate human desire to meet up, so we’ve grown like crazy—but the desktop-centric, feature-cluttered product we started building over a decade ago just can’t sustain that kind of growth. We’re ready to reshape Meetup for the mobile, global future, and design experiences that live up to the amazing feeling of going to a great Meetup. Our team is small but growing, so we’re looking for people with a pioneering spirit who want to help cultivate a design culture. That’s where you come in.
We have an iOS app, an Android app, and separate websites for mobile and desktop web, all with radically different experiences. We’re reinventing our whole user experience vision around mobile and we’re looking for a veteran to help get us there.
How to spot if you’re a match:
You’ve led mobile design projects for the last few years and have stellar ideas about how to create state-of-the-art native experiences
You have a demonstrated ability to create consistent user experiences that respect the specific conventions of web and native platforms
You’re super knowledgeable about, and excited by, the latest technology and design advancements in the most recent versions of iOS and Android.
Your designs are sensitive to concerns like localization, performance, futureproofing, and backward compatibility.
Involvement in the craft beyond your dayjob. You teach, do side projects, write a blog, or participate in Meetups, conferences, hackathons, etc.
Fierce user advocacy and passion for designing experiences that support, delight and engage members, with a sense of pride and ownership over the quality of the product
Ability to clearly express and simplify the complex in writing and conversation as well as in pictures
Appetite for destruction, gifs
If this sounds like you, please send your Meetup story along with your resume and portfolio.
