Consultant, Design Technologist

About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app and Tile tracking devices empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most with a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 77 million monthly active users (MAU), as of November 2024,  across more than 170 countries. 

Life360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small. By continuing to innovate and deliver for our customers, we have become a household name and the must-have mobile-based membership for families (and those friends that basically are family). 

Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more information, please visit life360.com.

Life360 is a Remote First company, which means a remote work environment will be the primary experience for all employees. All positions, unless otherwise specified, can be performed remotely (within the US) regardless of any specified location above.

About the job

Life360 is embarking on significant website redesign work that will involve combining our two brands (Life360 and Tile) into a single website (Life360.com) that will be the destination for all of our offerings. We are looking for a Consultant - Design Technologist to play an active role in the design development and front-end execution of this new web experience.

As a Design Technologist on this project, you will work closely with our internal team of designers, developers, and stakeholders to make this project a success. This is a 3-month contractor position, with the possibility of extension.

What You’ll Do

• Be a core contributor to a redesign that will involve combining the life360.com and tile.com websites into a single, unified web experience
• Collaborate with our designers, developers, and stakeholders throughout the design, development, and launch process
• Bridge the gap between Figma designs and production-ready web pages, actively contributing to both
• Develop responsive layouts that scale across desktop, tablet, and mobile
• Prototype flows, concepts, and interactions
• Write front-end code that is clean and functionally sound
• Be flexible and willing to jump in wherever needed throughout the design and development process to ensure the project is successfully executed

What We're Looking For

• What excites you most is making web experiences that really come to life through delightful animation, interactions, and flows
• Experience designing modern, responsive web experiences that include ecommerce / purchase flows
• A strong design portfolio of relevant work
• A deep understanding of systems thinking; you see how all the parts fit together and how small changes cascade throughout the system
• Strong knowledge of web best practices across both Design and Engineering
• You love collaborating and you are able to take ownership when needed
• You thrive in a highly iterative process that involves listening, adapting, moving fast, and incorporating feedback along the way

Mastery of HTML & CSS and thorough knowledge of a JS framework, like React—as well as CSS frameworks like Tailwind, and libraries like Framer Motion

• A passion for creating delightful details (such as micro-animations and interactions) and an understanding of how to implement them appropriately
• Proficiency in common design tools such as Figma

Life360 Values

Our company’s mission driven culture is guided by our shared values to create a trusted work environment where you can bring your authentic self to work and make a positive difference 

• Be a Good Person - We have a team of high integrity people you can trust. 
• Be Direct With Respect - We communicate directly, even when it’s hard.
• Members Before Metrics - We focus on building an exceptional experience for families. 
• High Intensity High Impact - We do whatever it takes to get the job done. 

Our Commitment to Diversity

We believe that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better results. Together, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. It fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve. We strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic best selves to work.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Life360. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any legally protected status.  

We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the below qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying!

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