I’ve been looking for this for a while to use at work.
Attention Designers! GroupMe is Hiring!
We are a small, passionate team of dedicated people working on a product that we love. We spend our days in a sunlight-filled loft near Union Square in Manhattan. At night, we sing karaoke sometimes. Basically, we love our jobs, and we have a lot of fun doing them.
We are looking for someone with ambition, confidence, bold opinions, and talent, whose primary responsibilities will involve collaborating with our designers and engineers in order to flesh out product ideas from early wireframes and sketches to pixel-perfect final designs.
In addition, responsibilities will include supporting other departments in all design functions: presentations, spreadsheets, marketing materials, whatever. You should feel comfortable working on multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Applicants should have an online portfolio that includes work that is beautiful and usable, demonstrating a love for tight detailing and impeccable typography. Ideally, it should show off your work in a range of platforms (web, mobile, tablets, print) and applications (sites, apps, branding, marketing). Any coding experience would be a major plus, as well as any motion graphics, video editing, or illustration skills.
We can’t wait to see what you have to show us!
Send your work to kevin@groupme.com
Some stats on working at GroupMe
In a few months I’ll officially have been at GroupMe for a year. I’ve looked back at the data and put together some interesting charts.
Collaborative playlists in Spotify could be so much better.
I recently learned that you can turn any playlist into a collaborative playlist, which exposes a URL to that playlist that any other user can access. Once they visit the link, they can add tracks to the list. But unfortunately the functionality ends there.
This is a hidden feature that could make Spotify so much more social. But there needs to be a reason for creating lists together. Turntable seems to do a good job of getting people in the same place to listen to music together - why not Spotify?
The design of the feature could be much better. Instead of letting anyone access that link, it should only be shareable among my friends. I should also get notifications when my friends add tracks. Social interactions should be allowed within the playlist - I want my friends to be able to leave comments and “fave” tracks.
What if there was something like Piictu for playlists? I could define a theme for the list like “Best Christmas Songs” and people could add their favorites.
I’ve started digging into the Spotify API to see if this kind of functionality can be built as a third party service. I’ll update this space as I progress.
