Careers at Rise
Careers at Rise
Careers at Rise
Careers at Rise
Senior Product Designer — Remote
Senior Product Designer — Remote
Senior Product Designer — Remote
Senior Product Designer — Remote
We're building a calendar that helps teams find time for what matters most. We are experienced product builders, have built companies before and are backed by top-tier investors.
We're building a calendar that helps teams find time for what matters most. We are experienced product builders, have built companies before and are backed by top-tier investors.
We're building a calendar that helps teams find time for what matters most. We are experienced product builders, have built companies before and are backed by top-tier investors.
We're building a calendar that helps teams find time for what matters most. We are experienced product builders, have built companies before and are backed by top-tier investors.
TLDR
At Rise, we are on a mission to help teams get more important work done. We do that by building a calendar that gives teams more time to focus on what matters.
We're experienced people, have built companies before and we've raised $3M from top tier investors like Stewart Butterfield (founder Slack), Adriaan Mol (founder Messagebird, Mollie), Tuomas Artman (Linear) and Lachy Groom.
We're focussed on doing great work and letting you do just that. We're distributed, do almost everything async and are super flexible about when we work (as founders with young kids you can probably find us at the playground whenever we're not working).
We'll offer a competitive salary in the range of €80 – 120k plus stock options.
Job description
We are looking for an experienced product designer who is able to take the design and user experience of Rise to the next level.
What you'll be working on
We are a team of 6 engineers, and you’ll be the person in charge of all UI and UX aspects of Rise. Meaning our desktop app, our mobile app, our emails as well as our public facing website. Basically everything.
What our ideal candidate looks like
You bring 5+ years of experience designing consumer facing apps for web and mobile
You have experience bringing designs to production and working closely with engineers to refine, tweak and polish those
You are able to express ideas and potential solutions in clear writing
You are able to do quick explorations and high fidelity designs, and you know what is needed when
You have experience in and get excited about interviewing users and diving into their challenges, and you’re able to translate those into solutions that solve their issues
You feel comfortable using data to inform and guide your decisions and priorities
You are in or close to Amsterdam timezone (± 2 hours time difference is ok)
What would be nice to have
You can code!
You have affinity with productivity tools, or experience building tools for work in general
What we're offering
Salary in the range of €80 - 120k plus stock options
MacBook Pro, Studio Display and AirPods Max
Work remotely, no commute to the office
Paid co-working space if needed
Around 3/4 onsites per year to do fun stuff and/or build
We realize that as a founding team we're from similar backgrounds, that we have unconscious biasses and that we have work to do here. This is why we explicitly want to invite and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.
Applying
Interested? We'd love to jump on a call with you. Share your CV, or even better: send a video of something you've designed. If you cannot share this in a video we can also discuss it later. Email your CV/video/questions to rick@risecalendar.com.
We invite recruiters to spend their time on something else. Same if you're looking for a freelance gig.
About Rise
We are on a mission to help teams get more important work done.
We set out to build a company that helps teams make the most of their time. Why? Because time is the most valuable asset, we can spend it only once. Not coincidentally, the central point in Rick’s bestselling book.
There are thousands of books and apps that promise more focus and productivity. A lot of them require a healthy dose of discipline. We made it our goal to build a tool that solves a problem instead of yet another complicated workflow to adopt.
In our research we found: most teams know what’s important, they just don’t have the time. Schedules are packed and distractions are everywhere. And because everyone has different working schedules it’s impossible to be mindful of everyones preferences. So we opt for the very next empty spot we can find.
It does not matter how empathetic you are as a leader or co-worker, you simply don't have the time to make it work for everyone.
We set out to fix this. Rise is a webbased calendar that sits on top of the Google Calendar API, so there's no signup or data migration required.
The team
Dany – Front-end Engineer from Berlin
Daniel – Back-end Engineer from Cologne
Tim – Front-end Engineer from Utrecht
Iain – Back-end Engineer from Rotterdam
Willem – Back-end Engineer & Cofounder from Amsterdam
Rick – Front-end Engineer & Cofounder from Amsterdam
We're a mix of people with different experiences, ranging from early stage startups, big tech, founding companies and fresh from university.
We've worked at companies like Uber, Teachable, Framer, Superlist, managed big teams and started and built multiple companies before.
We like to build a small team with very skilled people rather than adding a lot of positions. We believe with the right people you are able to move faster.
Things you should know about the team
01
Willem worked at Uber where he was responsible for large parts of the payments infrastructure and built the Amsterdam team from 7 to 220 engineers in 5 years. He once caused a bug that cost Uber tens of millions. You should ask him about the story there when you're interviewing.
02
Rick wrote GRIP, a book about productivity, which sold around ~120k copies in over 6 languages.
03
Dany is a big fan of Tailwind CSS and built tailwind-merge that solves the pains of using Tailwind CSS in a design system. This is being dowloaded 1.5m times per week now.
How we work
We care deeply about having a great sense of flow. We do that by having everyone own projects and having maximum amount of time to focus deeply on tackling the work. In clear terms: not too many meetings.
That said, killing meetings is not our goal. Our goal is simply to build the best possible product, which means that we like one-on-ones for catching up, ad-hoc meetings to flesh out details and real time polishing of details by sharing screens and code.
We run two week cycles, defined in Linear. We have a cadence of three team meetings per week: a kickoff on Monday, a weekly team lunch on Wednesday and a demo on Thursday or Friday.
We have been sending investor updates since the very beginning of building Rise, which contain our key metrics, financials, insights and plans. All of that is transparent for everyone in the team.
All of this is there for one reason: to allow everyone in the team to spend as much time as possible on building a world-class product.
More
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What have you learned?
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How often do you meet face-2-face?
TLDR
At Rise, we are on a mission to help teams get more important work done. We do that by building a calendar that gives teams more time to focus on what matters.
We're experienced people, have built companies before and we've raised $3M from top tier investors like Stewart Butterfield (founder Slack), Adriaan Mol (founder Messagebird, Mollie), Tuomas Artman (Linear) and Lachy Groom.
We're focussed on doing great work and letting you do just that. We're distributed, do almost everything async and are super flexible about when we work (as founders with young kids you can probably find us at the playground whenever we're not working).
We'll offer a competitive salary in the range of €80 – 120k plus stock options.
Job description
We are looking for an experienced product designer who is able to take the design and user experience of Rise to the next level.
What you'll be working on
We are a team of 6 engineers, and you’ll be the person in charge of all UI and UX aspects of Rise. Meaning our desktop app, our mobile app, our emails as well as our public facing website. Basically everything.
What our ideal candidate looks like
You bring 5+ years of experience designing consumer facing apps for web and mobile
You have experience bringing designs to production and working closely with engineers to refine, tweak and polish those
You are able to express ideas and potential solutions in clear writing
You are able to do quick explorations and high fidelity designs, and you know what is needed when
You have experience in and get excited about interviewing users and diving into their challenges, and you’re able to translate those into solutions that solve their issues
You feel comfortable using data to inform and guide your decisions and priorities
You are in or close to Amsterdam timezone (± 2 hours time difference is ok)
What would be nice to have
You can code!
You have affinity with productivity tools, or experience building tools for work in general
What we're offering
Salary in the range of €80 - 120k plus stock options
MacBook Pro, Studio Display and AirPods Max
Work remotely, no commute to the office
Paid co-working space if needed
Around 3/4 onsites per year to do fun stuff and/or build
We realize that as a founding team we're from similar backgrounds, that we have unconscious biasses and that we have work to do here. This is why we explicitly want to invite and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.
Applying
Interested? We'd love to jump on a call with you. Share your CV, or even better: send a video of something you've designed. If you cannot share this in a video we can also discuss it later. Email your CV/video/questions to rick@risecalendar.com.
We invite recruiters to spend their time on something else. Same if you're looking for a freelance gig.
About Rise
We are on a mission to help teams get more important work done.
We set out to build a company that helps teams make the most of their time. Why? Because time is the most valuable asset we can spend only once. Not coincidentally, the central point in Rick’s bestselling book.
There are thousands of books and apps that promise more focus and productivity. A lot of them require a healthy dose of discipline. We made it our goal to build a tool that solves a problem instead of yet another complicated workflow to adopt.
In our research we found: most teams know what’s important, they just don’t have the time. Schedules are packed and distractions everywhere. And because everyone has different working schedules it’s impossible to be mindful of everyones preferences. So we opt for the very next empty spot we can find.
It does not matter how empathetic you are as a leader or co-worker, you simply don't have the time to make it work for everyone.
We set out to fix this. Rise is a web-based calendar that sits on top of the Google Calendar API, so there's no signup or data migration required.
The team
Dany – Front-end Engineer from Berlin
Daniel – Back-end Engineer from Cologne
Tim – Front-end Engineer from Utrecht
Iain – Back-end Engineer from Rotterdam
Willem – Back-end Engineer & Cofounder from Amsterdam
Rick – Front-end Engineer & Cofounder from Amsterdam
We're a mix of people with different experiences, ranging from early stage startups, big tech, founding companies and fresh from university.
We've worked at companies like Uber, Teachable, Framer, Superlist, managed big teams and started and built multiple companies before.
We like to build a small team with very skilled people rather than adding a lot of positions. We believe with the right people you are able to move faster.
Things you should know about the team
01
Willem worked at Uber where he was responsible for large parts of the payments infrastructure and built the Amsterdam team from 7 to 220 engineers in 5 years. He once caused a bug that cost Uber tens of millions. You should ask him about the story there when you're interviewing.
02
Rick wrote GRIP, a book about productivity, which sold around ~120k copies in over 6 languages.
03
Dany is a big fan of Tailwind CSS and built tailwind-merge that solves the pains of using Tailwind CSS in a design system. This is being dowloaded 1.5m times per week now.
How we work
We care deeply about having a great sense of flow. We do that by having everyone own projects and having maximum amount of time to focus deeply on tackling the work. In clear terms: not too many meetings.
That said, killing meetings is not our goal. Our goal is simply to build the best possible product, which means that we like one-on-ones for catching up, ad-hoc meetings to flesh out details and real time polishing of details by sharing screens and code.
We run two week cycles, defined in Linear. We have a cadence of three team meetings per week: a kickoff on Monday, a weekly team lunch on Wednesday and a demo on Thursday or Friday.
We have been sending investor updates since the very beginning of building Rise, which contain our key metrics, financials, insights and plans. All of that is transparent for everyone in the team.
All of this is there for one reason: to allow everyone in the team to spend as much time as possible on building a world-class product.
More
►
What have you learned?
►
How often do you meet face-2-face?
TLDR
At Rise, we are on a mission to help teams get more important work done. We do that by building a calendar that gives teams more time to focus on what matters.
We're experienced people, have built companies before and we've raised $3M from top tier investors like Stewart Butterfield (founder Slack), Adriaan Mol (founder Messagebird, Mollie), Tuomas Artman (Linear) and Lachy Groom.
We're focussed on doing great work and letting you do just that. We're distributed, do almost everything async and are super flexible about when we work (as founders with young kids you can probably find us at the playground whenever we're not working).
We'll offer a competitive salary in the range of €80 – 120k plus stock options.
Job description
We are looking for an experienced product designer who is able to take the design and user experience of Rise to the next level.
What you'll be working on
We are a team of 6 engineers, and you’ll be the person in charge of all UI and UX aspects of Rise. Meaning our desktop app, our mobile app, our emails as well as our public facing website. Basically everything.
What our ideal candidate looks like
You bring 5+ years of experience designing consumer facing apps for web and mobile
You have experience bringing designs to production and working closely with engineers to refine, tweak and polish those
You are able to express ideas and potential solutions in clear writing
You are able to do quick explorations and high fidelity designs, and you know what is needed when
You have experience in and get excited about interviewing users and diving into their challenges, and you’re able to translate those into solutions that solve their issues
You feel comfortable using data to inform and guide your decisions and priorities
You are in or close to Amsterdam timezone (± 2 hours time difference is ok)
What would be nice to have
You can code!
You have affinity with productivity tools, or experience building tools for work in general
What we're offering
Salary in the range of €80 - 120k plus stock options
MacBook Pro, Studio Display and AirPods Max
Work remotely, no commute to the office
Paid co-working space if needed
Around 3/4 onsites per year to do fun stuff and/or build
We realize that as a founding team we're from similar backgrounds, that we have unconscious biasses and that we have work to do here. This is why we explicitly want to invite and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.
Applying
Interested? We'd love to jump on a call with you. Share your CV, or even better: send a video of something you've designed. If you cannot share this in a video we can also discuss it later. Email your CV/video/questions to rick@risecalendar.com.
We invite recruiters to spend their time on something else. Same if you're looking for a freelance gig.
About Rise
We are on a mission to help teams get more important work done.
We set out to build a company that helps teams make the most of their time. Why? Because time is the most valuable asset, we can spend it only once. Not coincidentally, the central point in Rick’s bestselling book.
There are thousands of books and apps that promise more focus and productivity. A lot of them require a healthy dose of discipline. We made it our goal to build a tool that solves a problem instead of yet another complicated workflow to adopt.
In our research we found: most teams know what’s important, they just don’t have the time. Schedules are packed and distractions are everywhere. And because everyone has different working schedules it’s impossible to be mindful of everyones preferences. So we opt for the very next empty spot we can find.
It does not matter how empathetic you are as a leader or co-worker, you simply don't have the time to make it work for everyone.
We set out to fix this. Rise is a webbased calendar that sits on top of the Google Calendar API, so there's no signup or data migration required.
The team
Dany – Front-end Engineer from Berlin
Daniel – Back-end Engineer from Cologne
Tim – Front-end Engineer from Utrecht
Iain – Back-end Engineer from Rotterdam
Willem – Back-end Engineer & Cofounder from Amsterdam
Rick – Front-end Engineer & Cofounder from Amsterdam
We're a mix of people with different experiences, ranging from early stage startups, big tech, founding companies and fresh from university.
We've worked at companies like Uber, Teachable, Framer, Superlist, managed big teams and started and built multiple companies before.
We like to build a small team with very skilled people rather than adding a lot of positions. We believe with the right people you are able to move faster.
Things you should know about the team
01
Willem worked at Uber where he was responsible for large parts of the payments infrastructure and built the Amsterdam team from 7 to 220 engineers in 5 years. He once caused a bug that cost Uber tens of millions. You should ask him about the story there when you're interviewing.
02
Rick wrote GRIP, a book about productivity, which sold around ~120k copies in over 6 languages.
03
Dany is a big fan of Tailwind CSS and built tailwind-merge that solves the pains of using Tailwind CSS in a design system. This is being dowloaded 1.5m times per week now.
How we work
We care deeply about having a great sense of flow. We do that by having everyone own projects and having maximum amount of time to focus deeply on tackling the work. In clear terms: not too many meetings.
That said, killing meetings is not our goal. Our goal is simply to build the best possible product, which means that we like one-on-ones for catching up, ad-hoc meetings to flesh out details and real time polishing of details by sharing screens and code.
We run two week cycles, defined in Linear. We have a cadence of three team meetings per week: a kickoff on Monday, a weekly team lunch on Wednesday and a demo on Thursday or Friday.
We have been sending investor updates since the very beginning of building Rise, which contain our key metrics, financials, insights and plans. All of that is transparent for everyone in the team.
All of this is there for one reason: to allow everyone in the team to spend as much time as possible on building a world-class product.
More
►
What have you learned?
►
How often do you meet face-2-face?
TLDR
At Rise, we are on a mission to help teams get more important work done. We do that by building a calendar that gives teams more time to focus on what matters.
We're experienced people, have built companies before and we've raised $3M from top tier investors like Stewart Butterfield (founder Slack), Adriaan Mol (founder Messagebird, Mollie), Tuomas Artman (Linear) and Lachy Groom.
We're focussed on doing great work and letting you do just that. We're distributed, do almost everything async and are super flexible about when we work (as founders with young kids you can probably find us at the playground whenever we're not working).
We'll offer a competitive salary in the range of €80 – 120k plus stock options.
Job description
We are looking for an experienced product designer who is able to take the design and user experience of Rise to the next level.
What you'll be working on
We are a team of 6 engineers, and you’ll be the person in charge of all UI and UX aspects of Rise. Meaning our desktop app, our mobile app, our emails as well as our public facing website. Basically everything.
What our ideal candidate looks like
You bring 5+ years of experience designing consumer facing apps for web and mobile
You have experience bringing designs to production and working closely with engineers to refine, tweak and polish those
You are able to express ideas and potential solutions in clear writing
You are able to do quick explorations and high fidelity designs, and you know what is needed when
You have experience in and get excited about interviewing users and diving into their challenges, and you’re able to translate those into solutions that solve their issues
You feel comfortable using data to inform and guide your decisions and priorities
You are in or close to Amsterdam timezone (± 2 hours time difference is ok)
What would be nice to have
You can code!
You have affinity with productivity tools, or experience building tools for work in general
What we're offering
Salary in the range of €80 - 120k plus stock options
MacBook Pro, Studio Display and AirPods Max
Work remotely, no commute to the office
Paid co-working space if needed
Around 3/4 onsites per year to do fun stuff and/or build
We realize that as a founding team we're from similar backgrounds, that we have unconscious biasses and that we have work to do here. This is why we explicitly want to invite and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.
Applying
Interested? We'd love to jump on a call with you. Share your CV, or even better: send a video of something you've designed. If you cannot share this in a video we can also discuss it later. Email your CV/video/questions to rick@risecalendar.com.
We invite recruiters to spend their time on something else. Same if you're looking for a freelance gig.
About Rise
We are on a mission to help teams get more important work done.
We set out to build a company that helps teams make the most of their time. Why? Because time is the most valuable asset, we can spend it only once. Not coincidentally, the central point in Rick’s bestselling book.
There are thousands of books and apps that promise more focus and productivity. A lot of them require a healthy dose of discipline. We made it our goal to build a tool that solves a problem instead of yet another complicated workflow to adopt.
In our research we found: most teams know what’s important, they just don’t have the time. Schedules are packed and distractions are everywhere. And because everyone has different working schedules it’s impossible to be mindful of everyones preferences. So we opt for the very next empty spot we can find.
It does not matter how empathetic you are as a leader or co-worker, you simply don't have the time to make it work for everyone.
We set out to fix this. Rise is a webbased calendar that sits on top of the Google Calendar API, so there's no signup or data migration required.
The team
Dany – Front-end Engineer from Berlin
Daniel – Back-end Engineer from Cologne
Tim – Front-end Engineer from Utrecht
Iain – Back-end Engineer from Rotterdam
Willem – Back-end Engineer & Cofounder from Amsterdam
Rick – Front-end Engineer & Cofounder from Amsterdam
We're a mix of people with different experiences, ranging from early stage startups, big tech, founding companies and fresh from university.
We've worked at companies like Uber, Teachable, Framer, Superlist, managed big teams and started and built multiple companies before.
We like to build a small team with very skilled people rather than adding a lot of positions. We believe with the right people you are able to move faster.
Things you should know about the team
01
Willem worked at Uber where he was responsible for large parts of the payments infrastructure and built the Amsterdam team from 7 to 220 engineers in 5 years. He once caused a bug that cost Uber tens of millions. You should ask him about the story there when you're interviewing.
02
Rick wrote GRIP, a book about productivity, which sold around ~120k copies in over 6 languages.
03
Dany is a big fan of Tailwind CSS and built tailwind-merge that solves the pains of using Tailwind CSS in a design system. This is being dowloaded 1.5m times per week now.
How we work
We care deeply about having a great sense of flow. We do that by having everyone own projects and having maximum amount of time to focus deeply on tackling the work. In clear terms: not too many meetings.
That said, killing meetings is not our goal. Our goal is simply to build the best possible product, which means that we like one-on-ones for catching up, ad-hoc meetings to flesh out details and real time polishing of details by sharing screens and code.
We run two week cycles, defined in Linear. We have a cadence of three team meetings per week: a kickoff on Monday, a weekly team lunch on Wednesday and a demo on Thursday or Friday.
We have been sending investor updates since the very beginning of building Rise, which contain our key metrics, financials, insights and plans. All of that is transparent for everyone in the team.
All of this is there for one reason: to allow everyone in the team to spend as much time as possible on building a world-class product.