Tallwave

The Company

We’re Tallwave, a digital agency. We’re a curious, competitive group of data-driven marketers, designers, and creative problem solvers who move fast to help our clients achieve their most ambitious goals. We find parity boring, and we’re constantly challenging ourselves to deliver innovative solutions with speed, precision, and impeccable craftsmanship. We dream big, we drive results, and we’ll make a lasting impact on our clients’ businesses.

Our ambitions are too big to leave room for individual egos, and the true measure of our success is what we can accomplish together. Our culture balances individual aspirations and accountability with each other. We value selflessness, humility, and tremendous work ethic. This drives an inspiration and dedication that can be felt across the organization.

The Job

Are you someone who embraces an unconventional way of thinking? Do you persevere even when the going gets tough? Are you passionate about teamwork, using a “we” not me mindset? Do you sweat the details and solve problems with thoughtfulness and precision? We are a scrappy, fluid organization and although we’ve been around for over a decade, we operate much like a startup. We are nimble, quick thinkers and are dedicated to finding talent that wants to help us grow the business to new heights. If this sounds like you, then we want to hear from you!

The Person

Tallwave is seeking individuals in the Phoenix / Scottsdale metro area who are a cut above. Their exceptional skill, diverse perspectives, obsession for winning together, and relentless pursuit of continuous self-improvement, both professionally and personally, give them an innate ability to lead, innovate, and inspire. They have well-honed philosophies and points of view in their areas of expertise, they think unconventionally, and their endless curiosity pushes them to constantly explore, learn, improve, and try new things.

Are you obsessed with improving digital product experiences? Can you take a digital product idea and know exactly how to improve it for aesthetic appeal and user experience? Are you a relentless cheerleader for the user? Is “active listening” your middle name? Are you comfortable speaking candidly and challenging assumptions with respect and grace? Then you might be exactly who we’ve been looking for!

Working closely alongside Design Team Leads and clients, you will craft meaningful interactive and brand experiences through design, participating in workshops, implementing strategies, and customer-centric methodologies. In addition to managing your project timelines and deliverables, you will be an integral part of inspiring the design team, helping to develop and grow processes, and keeping an active dialog with the team about new design trends and tools within the industry.

The successful Product Designer candidate will have:

• 5+ years of web and interactive design experience.
• A solid foundation in the principles of UI and UX.
• A solid understanding of user-centered design and design thinking.
• Solid skills in user interface design, wireframing, information & application architecture, process flows, prototyping, stakeholder & customer interviews, high-level usability testing.
• Familiarity working with dev teams.
• A combination of strategic and conceptual design abilities.
• An extremely organized and detail-oriented ability with excellent time management skills.
• Be able to work under pressure with an ability to prioritize time-sensitive assignments.
• Exhibit a high degree of emotional intelligence, listening skills, and tact.
• Exhibit strong leadership and communication skills.
• Be self-motivated: you take the initiative to find a solution rather than waiting for someone to find one for you.
• Be proficient in Google Apps, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Omnigraffle. 
• HTML5/CSS3 would be a plus.
• Enterprise app experience would be a plus.
• In-depth user research experience would be a plus.

The ideal Product Design candidate will have these traits and skills:

• You lead by example in craftsmanship, accountability, and behavior for the other members of the design team and Tallwave as a whole.
• You are an active listener who speaks candidly and challenges assumptions and finds solutions with respect and grace.
• You are accountable to your customers and your teammates and are aware of how your actions affect your team and our business. 
• You use a design thinking approach to affect decisions on a higher level, solve business problems, and create business opportunities.
• You help create and improve workflows and processes.
• You are passionate about keeping up to speed with trends and innovations in experience design, technology, visual design, art, communications design and product design.
• You develop and enforce user experience design, interface design, and branding best practices.
• You will present work to internal teams and clients and be able to intelligently defend and collaborate on your designs in a room full of non-designers.
• You participate in key internal meetings, including weekly status updates and planning sessions and maintain current status using our communication tools.
• You work with clients and project teams to create deliverables like website and application architecture docs, user flows, sketching, wireframes and detailed annotations, UI concepts and mock-ups, and prototypes.

The culture and perks of being a Tallwaver:

• We embrace a maverick attitude. We’re willing to challenge convention and think beyond the ask.
• We are committed to relentless pursuit. We’re curious with a focus on personal growth.
• We value selfless teamwork, demonstrating strong leadership qualities with a knack for collaboration.
• We are thoughtfully rigorous, have a strong work ethic and have strong attention to detail.
• An environment that fosters empathy and compassion for each other and our clients.
• A diverse (and competitive, and hilarious, and sometimes a little crazy) group of coworkers. You know, the kind you actually want to grab a drink with after work.
• Career growth and opportunity. We grow leaders here.
• We recognize the contributions of individuals and teams throughout Tallwave, and we stop to celebrate through Happy hours, on-the-fly high fives, core-values-based awards during our All-Hands Meetings, and Tallwave anniversary awards, to name a few.
• “Lunch & Discuss” sessions, and formal training sessions focused on continuous learning and growth as a team.
• We offer comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and 401(k) plans.
• Concierge-booked Tallwave Work Anniversary experiences.
• We provide employer-paid short-term disability and long-term disability plans and life insurance.
• We’re more concerned about how we work than where we work. We offer remote work and office hours flexibility as needed.
• We trust our team -- we have a generous PTO policy. Seriously, did you read about it yet? It’s kind of amazing!
• We are surrounded by badass talent and clients -- our work has been featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, Wired, Product Hunt, and more.
• We’ve been featured on the INC Best Workplaces List, the Phoenix Business Journal Best Places to Work List, and the AZCentral Top Places to Work List.

Why you'll love working with us

Free to be you, each and every day! We celebrate diversity and empower you to bring your authentic self to work, always. We know that diversity, equity, and inclusion is not about checking a box. It's more than words, it is a pledge and a promise that Tallwave is passionate about pursuing. We recognize having an all-encompassing culture will help us learn and grow collectively, and continue to foster our mission of making everyone we work with wildly successful.

Working conditions

Employees operate in a professional office environment and routinely use standard office equipment like computers, telephones, and teleconferencing equipment. Tallwave is committed to creating a work environment where the needs of our customers, employees, and the company are balanced. Therefore, we try to be flexible to work styles and location. Even post-pandemic, we will continue to provide Work From Home (WFH) or remote work flexibility. Our awesome offices are available for Tallwavers to use as an alternative workspace to connect with their team and customers. Part of the vision for our Use of Office is for Tallwavers in markets with a physical TW office to work from there at least 3 days a week in order to create stronger connections in person with each other, and participate in the activities that create the fun social fabric that makes us part of who we are. This allows employees to be accessible to coworkers/customers and creates a sense of connectedness, consistency and collaboration.

Our remote Tallwavers can be based in any of the following states: AZ, FL, IA, IL, KS, MA, MD, MO, NY, OH, TX.

Position Applicants, please note the following:

At this time, this position is only open to applicants who are legally authorized to work in the United States wiithout sponsorship, and U.S. citizens who are living in the United States. We are also unable to provide visa sponsorship of any kind, so please do not apply if:

• You are not legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship, or
• You are not living in the 48 contiguous states of the U.S., Alaska, or Hawai'i, or
• You will require any kind of visa sponsorship.

Tallwave is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.