AI-Powered Building Management
UX Lead
About the role
The future of work is increasingly complex — remote workers, distributed teams, flexible multi-tenant office space — and the dynamic of how workers interact with each other and how workers interact with their physical space is changing.
VergeSense is building an easy-to-deploy space utilization & sensing platform that helps real estate professionals monitor foot-traffic within buildings. Data from our platform is used to improve building layout & design, execute dynamic workforce strategies, and reduce energy costs. For large clients, the financial impact is in the tens of millions per year. We provide a full-stack solution comprised of easy-to-deploy AI-sensors, fleet management tools, analytics software, and APIs that integrate with the leading workplace management systems on the market.
The Role
VergeSense is seeking to hire a UX lead to help design products and experiences that are shaping how people interact with physical space. VergeSense aims to simplify the complexities of IOT and Data for enterprises and their workspaces. The role will help shape the foundations of UX at VergeSense and own and evolve the end to end VergeSense experience for our users. What You'll Do
Define and create the foundational user experiences leading workplace analytics platform. Help revolutionize understanding of physical space and how offices of the future are measured, managed, and optimized to meet the needs of enterprises and their employees. Collaborate with Product and Engineering leads and inspire the creation of a seamless user experience from data to action for our users. Plan and conduct user research through interviews, observations, usability tests, etc to identify opportunities, pain points, and needs of our users. Produce personas, journey maps, research reports, and other artifacts to communicate analyses to team members. Define user problems and ideate solutions to solve them. Prototype designs for stakeholder feedback and testing, using low-high fidelity prototypes as appropriate. Produce production ready designs and provide guidance to engineers during implementation. Create and maintain our UX/UI design system to ensure consistency in all of VergeSense physical and digital experiences. What You'll Need
Deep customer empathy. We value spending time with our customers and prospects. You enjoy getting to know the people who use (or may use) our products, and you care deeply about their success to advocate for their needs.
5+ years of professional product design experience
Well rounded portfolio of work that demonstrates solutions to difficult UX problems. Must be able to show user-centered design principles with real world use cases during the interview process.
Experience with modern design software - Figma, Sketch, inVision, etc.
Love UX research. You have performed and are comfortable running multiple types of UX studies and tests, and are confident that you could pick up new methodologies as needed.
Comfortable using both quantitative and qualitative data to make decisions.
Adaptable. You are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, bringing order from chaos, and adapting to changing priorities as new information becomes available.
BONUS Experience working on technical B2B SaaS solutions. Able to code and work comfortably with CSS and UI frameworks is a big plus. Benefits • A high-impact role in an emerging industry leader • Competitive compensation and equity • Employer-sponsored medical, dental and vision insurance • Open Vacation policy: take time off when you need it
We value people from all walks of life who exhibit kindness, curiosity, discipline, humility, and passion to excel at what they do. If you would like to contribute to our team, we encourage you to apply.
Why you should join VergeSense
Our Company
The future of work is increasingly complex — remote workers, distributed teams, flexible multi-tenant office space — and the dynamic of how workers interact with each other and how workers interact with their physical space is changing.
VergeSense is building an easy-to-deploy space utilization & sensing platform that helps real estate professionals monitor foot-traffic within buildings. Data from our platform is used to improve building layout & design, execute dynamic workforce strategies, and reduce energy costs. For large clients, the financial impact is in the tens of millions per year. We provide a full-stack solution comprised of easy-to-deploy AI-sensors, fleet management tools, analytics software, and APIs that integrate with the leading workplace management systems on the market.
Current Events
We are in unprecedented times, and workplace tech is especially needed to help companies plan for a post-COVID workplace. Our AI-powered sensing products and platform are being called on more than ever to serve commercial real estate operators and employees of the modern workforce. We have been at the center of space planning conversations focused on helping companies comply with public health guidelines of social distancing, sanitation, among other applications. As companies plan the return to work for their teams, we are working with speed, accuracy, and care to deliver a crucial service in this transitional time.
Our Product
Deployed in minutes, our high-accuracy quick-installation sensors are able to identify the presence of people and key objects in the context of an office environment that signal how space is being used. Our analytics platform creates a sphere of intelligence within properties and provides actionable insights and AI-powered recommendations to help building managers make effective space planning decisions.
We’re building and training our sensors to become even smarter, with the goal of catering to an even wider range of customers, use cases, and industries. Our sensor-as-a-system and intuitive analytics dashboard provide a real-time view into what is happening in a space, and over time our sensors automatically learn to detect new types of events on the go.
Our Community
We are a lean, fast-moving, impact-focused (and fun!) team of 60+ across San Francisco HQ, Minneapolis, Boston, and remote locations. We count the Fortune 500 among our customers and are backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Allegion Ventures, JLL, Bolt, Pathbreaker Ventures, with strong financial runway. We're always looking to add amazing individuals to our team.
We believe in allowing people to apply their strengths toward doing work they find meaningful. We value creativity and resourcefulness in team members, and would love to hear where you believe your contributions would be most impactful.
