I’m working as the sole (for now) UX designer at a startup called Kensho and am looking to grow the team.\u00a0 We are headquartered in Harvard Square (Boston) and just opened a NYC office.<\/p>\n
We are a small group of, mostly, industry outsiders working on analytics and data-visualization tools capable of quickly answering the kinds of questions that previously could only be answered effectively by super-secret hedge funds (who were, until now, able to exploit the information asymmetry to their advantage).\u00a0 An example question would be “what happens to markets when a category 3 hurricane makes landfall in the U.S.?” \u00a0This capability has left us well positioned to shake up the financial industry.<\/p>\n
We have a fun and brilliant team of about\u00a025 people<\/a>\u00a0who jumped ship from places like Google, Kayak, edX, and the MIT media lab to work with Kensho.\u00a0 We have gained a lot of traction really quickly.\u00a0 In less than two years, we have received investments from Google and Goldman Sachs among others (we raised $15m in the last round), and have formed a partnership with CNBC to provide event-based analytics for web and on-air news.\u00a0 It looks like we are going to continue on this trajectory and are growing quickly.<\/p>\n Here is\u00a0the article<\/a>\u00a0that originally got me interested in the company.<\/p>\n So, while that all sounds great (hopefully), I need some help.\u00a0 I’m looking for people interested in helping me to build, from the ground up, a world-class design team capable of taming this beast of a problem and elevating the user experience and visual design to the levels you see in the very best consumer apps.<\/p>\n Let me know if this sounds interesting.\u00a0 It would be great to connect.<\/p>\n Thanks.\u00a0 Hope to hear from you,<\/p>\n Eli Rosen<\/p>\n email:\u00a0eli@kensho.com<\/a><\/p>\n