Altana provides the world’s only dynamic, intelligent map of the global supply chain - the Altana Atlas - using AI and machine learning models to connect with and learn from massive sets of public and private data. Through the Atlas, companies and governments can understand the distant origins of products well beyond their own direct suppliers; discover trading relationships and national security risks deep in their networks; measure labor and environmental impacts; identify related risks and opportunities; ensure effective compliance and enforcement with trade requirements; and collaborate to manage all of it.
We have built a fundamental understanding of how the world’s economy works, and the implications for global resiliency, sustainability and opportunity are enormous. Backed by leading investors and used by the world’s most important organizations (Maersk, US Customs and Border Protection, Boston Scientific, and more), Altana’s mission is to power a new era of globalization organized around trusted supply chain networks.This is a lofty mission, and our success depends on building a diverse, global team and creating an environment in which they can thrive.
We operate in accordance with our values: we focus on value creation, not capture; we foster diversity and embrace difference; we embrace reality; we get things done; we amaze our clients. When you join Altana, you’ll be joining a vibrant, collaborative team working together to solve complex problems with the potential for global societal impact.
The Opportunity at Altana
The Altana Design team is growing fast. We are looking for multiple designers to take a highly visual and complex UX to the next level. Our company is growing exponentially, and the Design team has a unique opportunity to contribute value now that will scale for years to come.Altana is poised to become the single source of truth for the global supply trade. Our customers consist of industry-leading giants in the enterprise and logistics space and global government intelligence and regulations. We have built a layer of shared intelligence across the world’s supply chain information: a living map of trillions of dollars of B2B commercial activity, covering 400M companies connected by billions of shipments.
This knowledge graph powers Altana’s Trusted Commerce Platform - the Altana Atlas - which many of the world’s most important governments, enterprises, and logistics providers have already used after only three years since its founding.You’ll define experiences for our product that enables customers to gain unprecedented visibility, benefit from shared artificial intelligence across a federated network of data, and interact across the network through a shared source of truth. We help our customers to build and manage trusted global supply chains.
What you’ll do at Altana
- Contribute to product strategy and decision-making
- Define and evangelize the vision for what is possible
- Empathize with customers by participating in or leading research and testing
- Solve complex problems with your PM and Data Science partners that enable an intuitive analysis of massive data sets in a multi-user environment (supply chain visualizations, knowledge graphs, dashboards, and reports)
- Collaborate with Engineers designing directly in fully functional prototypes product
- Develop high-quality visual and interaction designs across all phases of product development including interactive prototypes
You’d be a great fit if this sounds like you:
- You want to work at a high-growth startup and make an early impact
- You can’t stop thinking about complex problems
- You simply must fix unintuitive interactions and experiences
- You have an eye for visual design and obsess over the details
- You are a builder who loves to work fast, with engineers, in the product using functional prototypes
- You think in systems at scale
- You are excited about big gnarly problems
Experience/Skills Required:
- 4+ years experience as a UX or Product Designer in multi-user enterprise SaaS products
- A compelling portfolio of work that demonstrates the ability to solve problems dealing with complex data in non-linear workflows.
- A deep interest in product development and technology; excited about building incredible product experiences
- An excellent communication skills and storyteller
- Comfort level with CSS and styling React components or desire to learn
- Bonus: HCI or similar degree
Why it’s great to work at Altana
- We love to collaborate, and we win as a team!
- We are committed to engineering excellence
- We value personal and professional development
- We learn from diverse backgrounds and perspectives
- We impact the world, from enabling developing countries to identifying drug traffickers
At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate.
We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.
