Designer
You're joining Waitwhile at the beginning of our journey. As one of our first team members, you'll have a huge impact on the company, culture and product - and you'll get to learn a ton and have fun.
The opportunity ✨
At Waitwhile, we work on tools to eliminate the 1 trillion hours that people spend waiting in lines every year. Our queue management platform is trusted by over 10,000 companies worldwide like IKEA, Amazon and Google - and has helped more than 100 million people enjoy a radically better waiting experience.
In this role, you’ll join as our third designer which means you'll play a huge role and get to work on everything design, UX and brand for Waitwhile. We are looking for a designer who has a balance of great visual design coupled with the ability for storytelling in different formats.
What you'll be doing 🚀
- Create and own all designs and visual assets for new marketing campaigns
- Create and own website designs and visuals
- Work with our Head of Design on a Waitwhile design system and make sure it's consistently implemented everywhere
- Collaborate with the copywriters, researchers, art and creative directors
- Be a brand steward - ensuring our brand promise and story are consistently being represented throughout the customer journey
- Get a little weird. And then get weirder. Then tone it down a little. Sheesh, this is a job! Okay, better. Just the right amount of weird.
What skills you need 📖
- 2+ years of experience in an individual contributor role on a product design team for desktop or mobile
- A great portfolio, showcasing a foundation in typography, interaction, and visual design.
- Core graphic design abilities include the ability to craft a story as well as have the production level know-how to cut and deliver assets
- Basic understanding of how to craft usable, accessible, and modular designs that can scale to millions of users.
- Experience with prototyping as a means to explore and convey design solutions.
- Figma, Sketch or Adobe CC experience required, motion design skills or CSS/Javascript competency is a plus
- Excellent communication skills
Bonus skills & attributes 🙌
- You've worked at a startup or SaaS product
Benefits ❤️
We're small but really want everyone on the team to thrive with awesome benefits! If there’s something important to you that’s not on this list, talk to us! :)
- Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing start-up
- Regular compensation reviews - we reward great work!
- Super-sized vacation policy and flexible holidays so you can take time off when you need it
- Work remotely with great equipment. We help you level up your home office with awesome hardware and gear.
- Health plans and 401(k) savings to make sure you thrive! (United States & Sweden only right now)

Are one of these positions right for you?
Stockholm
Grow with us.
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Work remotely
We don’t mind where you work, as long as you’re happy and productive. We even provide a home-office stipend for our fully remote team members. -
Autonomy
Your self-starting personality will shine when you have the freedom to shape your work and help guide the product's direction. -
Great benefits
Health benefits, retirement packages and generous time-off policies help keep your overall well-being a priority. -
Professional growth
We want to see you thrive. You will contribute to the larger vision of Waitwhile while growing in your career journey. -
Take time for yourself.
You have a life outside of work, and Waitwhile offers a generous time-off policy for you to enjoy it.
About Waitwhile
Waitwhile is a wait management platform that helps businesses deliver better waiting experiences for their customers through automated, personalized and smartphone-based line experiences.
Waitwhile has improved the wait experience for over 100 million guests and collectively given people back over 2 million days they would have otherwise wasted waiting in line. Our customers include IKEA, Lululemon, Louis Vuitton, ADP, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Facebook and thousands of other businesses looking to improve their waiting experiences.
The company was founded in 2017 in San Francisco with the mission to eliminate the 1 Trillion hours that humans waste standing in line every year. Waitwhile has secured $12 million in funding from investors including CRV and has offices in the US and Sweden.
Designer
You're joining Waitwhile at the beginning of our journey. As one of our first team members, you'll have a huge impact on the company, culture and product - and you'll get to learn a ton and have fun.
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