Product Designer

Our mission at Groma is to build and operate a real-estate-backed cryptocurrency for the world. In doing so, we hope to provide an alternative stable global currency, democratize real estate ownership, and help to build better cities. Given our goals, Groma is one part real estate firm, one part technology startup. As a real estate firm, we focus on acquiring, renovating, and developing buildings in the cities in which we operate. As a technology startup, we focus on enabling the efficient operation of the real estate arm of the business, expressing all of our real estate assets on the blockchain, and building the digital currency that represents fractional ownership of our real estate portfolio.

We are seeking a product designer passionate about advocating for the customer, learning design in the Web3 space, and evolving the Groma experience. As the primary product designer at Groma this role will work across the entire ecosystem of products, including multiple user web interfaces and the Groma design system.  This role will be involved in every stage of the design process, beginning with research, planning, and strategy and ending with implementation and visual quality assurance. As the third designer at Groma, this role will be hands-on and allow you to contribute to many areas of a growing, early-stage business. Below is a non-exhaustive list of attributes and responsibilities:  

Develop holistic user experiences

• Build upon the existing design system to create components that the entire suite of products can utilize.
• Incorporating all aspects of design; research, ideation, user flows, wireframes, prototyping, high-fidelity designs, and development preparation. 
• Comfortable being the primary product designer across our investor, tenant, admin, and landing site experiences; currently all web and mobile web. 
• Perform qualitative and quantitative research to ensure usability. 

Attention to detail and consistency 

• Prioritizes user-focused experiences with expert craft and detail.  
• Incorporates the brand throughout our products in a thoughtful, user-friendly way.  
• Creates documentation surrounding designs to ensure consistency and understanding. 

Collaborative and solutions-oriented 

• Comfortable communicating design decisions with cross-functional team members and open to thoughtful feedback.
• Work closely with stakeholders and engineering partners. (We currently do not have product managers; designers and engineers own the product and requirements end-to-end) 
• Provide feedback to other designers and participate in design reviews. 
• Willing to think creatively, be imaginative, and brainstorm new projects and ideas. 
• Excited to help contribute and build the design culture. 

Curious about the industry 

• Interested to learn about blockchain and web3 and emerging design trends in this evolving space. 
• Explore new opportunities, tools, and styles and stay current on best practices. 
• Curious to learn the real estate market and blockchain technology; understanding business requirements and constraints. 

Flexible in a growing environment 

• Comfortable working on a broad set of projects and in an environment with frequent change. 
• Eager to grow and learn within the organization. 

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience. 
• 4+ years of relevant work experience as a UX designer, or similar role. 
• Experience working in the financial industry is a plus. 
• Concrete understanding of design principles and best practices. 
• Extensive knowledge of Figma, including libraries, auto-layout, color and font styles, and utilizing plugins. 
• A portfolio of work demonstrating relevant design experience is a requirement 

At Groma, we’re looking to build something big and are on a very fast growth trajectory. While a healthy work-life balance is important to our team, we want to be upfront that there may be times when we expect commitments outside of the standard 9-5. We strive to respect individuals and their needs, while also acknowledging the reality that we have a small team that is trying to accomplish some very ambitious goals in a short period of time.

We are also focused on maintaining our dynamic in-office culture at Groma’s headquarters in beautiful downtown Boston, Massachusetts. We believe that in-person collaboration and spontaneous interpersonal interaction is critical to the company’s success at this stage. Also, our office is great. We own the whole building and have made it very much our own space. We’ve got a gym, locker rooms, a game room, a rooftop garden, and all the normal stuff to make an office an effective and fun place to be. We understand that everyone will need to work from home or the road occasionally, but want to be transparent with this expectation.

We have an ever-evolving list of values and conventions that guide how we operate as a company, but here’s a high-level overview of how we think about doing what we do:

• We’re committed to building an inclusive, equitable, anti-discriminatory workplace that reflects the diversity of people and cultures that live, work, and play in the communities we seek to serve.
• We approach our work with pragmatic idealism that enables us to focus on our desire to make the world a better place in ways big and small while also being open to intelligent compromises that accelerate us on our path to serve our broader societal goals.
• Our whole team believes strongly in a value we shorthand as Justice League, not Superman. The challenges we are trying to solve require effective teams, not individual heroes. (Note: Yes… we are aware that Superman has been a member of the Justice League for quite some time now, but the analogy here is an easy, yet powerful, one for people to grasp. We don’t need a hero, we need a collaborative team of heroes who each bring something unique to the table to help solve problems that any of us individually would find daunting.)

• Competitive salary for the Boston area
• Early stage equity in a quickly growing startup
• 5% 401k match
• Fully covered high-quality health and dental insurance plans
• Fully covered commuter passes for bus, subway, boat, or commuter rail
• Unlimited PTO
• 13 official company holidays
• 1 floating holiday: We recognize that there are lots of holidays that are meaningful to different people in different ways and we want to celebrate that by enabling team members to have the time/space to commemorate those days however is appropriate, and using it as an opportunity - if they’d like to - to share the meaning of that day with the broader team
• Optional pet insurance for cats, dogs, lizards, frogs, and waterfowl
• A beautiful office in downtown Boston with a gym, locker rooms, game room, rooftop garden, and several catered lunches a week