Service Designer Jobs

[This is a full-time and on-site role based in Washington DC at a seed stage startup.]

Are you a multidisciplinary designer? Can you create physical products AND design online experiences? Do you have the ability to understand materials and manufacturing all while keeping in mind the needs of a circular system? Does owning an end-to-end, circular and closed-loop supply chain make you want to jump out of your chair? Would integrating physical products and online experiences all while driving a vertically integrated platform be a dream come true?!?

If YAAASSSS, we'd love to talk with you!

SpringEats is redesigning the future of food systems. We are building waste-free and climate resilient supply chains to solve humanity's most basic need: access to clean food. We source and deliver groceries without any kind of single-use packaging. Our mission is to Make Trash History™.

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In your role, you will create reusable packaging that is designed for our proprietary inventory management system and reverse logistics platform. You will also build online experiences for members and merchant partners, i.e., build UX/UI in unique ways.

The ideal candidate understands the marriage between service design, UX/UI, and materials and industrial design. Indeed, the ideal candidate is a multi-disciplinary designer.

Responsibilities:

• Drive first-mile and last-mile productivity
• Create reusable packaging
• Understand the business as a whole and drive Design to achieve market dominance
• Integrate hardware with proprietary software
• Create UX/UI

Skills and experience:

• Experience taking physical and online products to market is highly valued, too
• Solid verbal and written communications skills
• Skilled at making digital assets, as needed
• Stellar project management skills
• Experience with startups, product design companies, city planning and transportation planning is highly valued

Character Attributes:

• Fundamentals:
• Passion for material sciences
• Big picture thinker with ability to execute and build from scratch in unstructured, fast-paced environments
• Ability to listen, learn, iterate and strive for excellence
• Authentic love for social transformation and environmental good
• You are excited to speak with customers and other stakeholders
• Curiosity
• Obsessed with details
• Cross-functional collaboration ninja
• Hungry to solve wicked problems
• Bias for simple, elegant design

a. You are punctual

b. You are accountable

c. You are a teamworker

d. You are super-duper organized

e. You are a first class communicator

f. You are ready to roll up your sleeves and dive into the role

Our Culture:

• Proactive problem solving and showing up
• Empathy
• Active Listening
• Iteration and innovation (say No to status quo)
• We believe and live “Compassion is Revolution”
• Transparent communications
• Constant striving towards excellence
• A collaborative work environment

Location:

• This is a hybrid role that involves spending time in the field, in our offices, in the warehouse, in the delivery vehicle, with farmers and producers, while also working from home
• Washington-DC Metro Area

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with the founding team

Your Impact:

You are democratizing climate action and empowering customers. Your direct impact is giving the American public the opportunity to vote with their wallet to reject the antiquated food system and the single-use packaging that comes with it.

Compensation:

• Health care options (available as we expand our operations)
• Two weeks paid time off
• Salary
• Healthy, nutritious foods available to you via your own grocery store!
• Equity

Role is not for you, if:

• You are accustomed to, and thrive in, a culture of workplace politics
• You like blueprints and super specified processes
• You are not a scrappy problem solver