Description
As the lead UX designer at My Fastest Path, you will be part of a small, distributed team of scientists and engineers working on the cutting edge of consumer navigation, route planning and transportation science. You will be responsible for creating an intuitive and compelling experience for consumers to steer clear of traffic, saving time and money and reducing congestion on our streets leveraging the most sophisticated set of algorithms and "killer" features available in the navigation space today.
What’s in it for you?
We offer a great opportunity to work with a technology team that is disrupting the way consumers and businesses navigate roads. In numerous field trails over many years, the prototype applications developed by the team of scientists here have outperformed Google Maps by up to 50% of driving time and Waze by up to 33% of driving time. Using our application, a consumer would save over 1,000 hours of driving time each year and up to $900 on gasoline relative to Google Maps. You will be a critical contributor to bringing this technology into the hands of millions of people.
If this sounds like an environment in which you would thrive, we’d love to hear from you. Please send your resume to If you have a portfolio of your work, please include the link in your submission. Principals only, please, no recruiters.
Skills & Requirements
- Great interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
- Ability to play well with others and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical people
- Strong experience with mobile application design for iOS and Android
- Ability to absorb quickly sophisticated technical and conceptual information, identify key issues and details, and clearly present alternatives to both technical and non-technical individuals
- Bonus credit: experience in mapping-related applications, a strong sense of the strengths and weaknesses of applications like Google Maps and Waze, and a passion for making it easy for technology to enhance people's everyday lives
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