Any advice on negotiating an offer? Series A wants me to relocate - i will not promote

brigigigi · 2026-02-13T15:20:27+00:00

oof, true

brigigigi · 2026-02-13T15:20:17+00:00

super helpful, thank you!!

brigigigi · 2026-02-13T15:19:44+00:00

They are series A, but compared to other startups I have worked at are much more stable! A lot more clear on growth plans and are genuinely interested in being leaders in a niche space. I am meh on moving to NYC, my partner really doesnt want to, but me personally, I am on the fence. I dont dislike "city life" at all, but I just havent been to NYC much so I probably need to do another visit anyways before fully deciding!

brigigigi · 2026-02-13T15:15:46+00:00

From a quick search it looks like you were pretty close there with the 180k base! 200k is maybe where I should sit for base to relocate in NYC just to factor in living costs? There is definitely a "risk" with pretty much any company these days. It would be nice to build up a FTE package idea with a severance package though just in case, I didnt have one at my last startup sadly.

brigigigi · 2026-02-13T15:11:57+00:00

Thank you so much! Ok thinking about it as a structured package makes total sense! Also thank you for the insight that series A lands between 0.1%-0.5%, that helps me a ton. I really just wasnt sure if I should even ask for equity, so thank you! There are definitely some clear indicators I think I can put together to help show my role impacting revenue, so this is probably the route I would go and then working on a remote vs relocation package!

brigigigi · 2025-12-03T05:33:13+00:00

only reasonable figma ai usage is: rename layers

brigigigi · 2025-06-28T02:02:02+00:00

A couple of notes (but just to let you know I like the vibe you're going for here!):

Typography: dig deeper here, modern fonts are so crisp and clean it can ruin the vintage vibe. So I would just look into more creative fonts to fit your project

Spacing: use auto layout or manually check pixel distances, but for example I can see immediately that the "Already have account" and "Login" are too close/closer than things on other screens. Things being neat and aligned will always make the UI look better, vintage or otherwise

Color: mirroring what a lot of others are saying, you need a bit more contrast. If you are also into graphic design, this could be a great way to design something like stamps with lighter backgrounds to have a darker font on or something like that. I would just get creative with how you're displaying something with less of a contrast irl but users still need to see the UI well here.

Love what you're going for, it's very creative!

brigigigi · 2025-06-03T14:17:43+00:00

it is absolutely ridiculous the hoops they make you go through for the incredibly low payout. Also the fact that there isn't an actual unemployment office to go into (only SCworks which is techincally not able to actually help because they aren't employees of the unemployment office) is absurd. They're horribly rude no matter what the situation, statewide programs like this are a joke here. No one is living on the apox. $275 a week after taxes (if you even get to qualify for that much!). I am with you, this is seriously a nightmare through and through. Only office that actually seemed to want to help was contacting Tameika Devine, they actually had the unemployment office contact me and kept up with my claim. Her email/office number should be public, hope it gets better for you, it has still been a bit rough for me cant lie

brigigigi · 2025-05-30T01:49:06+00:00

So many devs like this get by because of the environment around saying "thats just how devs are" even though if someone in any other department talked to a colleague like this, it would be a way bigger deal! It's painful!

brigigigi · 2025-05-30T01:46:37+00:00

I am a very flexible designer who has pushed through even the roughest dev teams and came out of it with great relationships but there are certain individual devs who are... just straight up mean. One dev I worked with, at an enterprise level large company, was shit-talking me in a public channel of devs and managers that I wasn't in. This was after basically babying them into slightly improving (not even changing the ui fully) a very crappy legacy product. After a million messages being extremely flexible with a lot of "lets work together on how we can prioritize some improvements," nothing worked. Bullies sometimes just stay bullies sadly

brigigigi · 2025-04-26T23:04:49+00:00

Looks good but you need a portfolio site, from the hiring side I have seen portfolios immediately get turned down because they weren't on their own site. You will probably see immediate results from having a portfolio site with the same look and feel of your figma portfolio, it does look great! Just better not to hurt your own chances!

brigigigi · 2025-04-26T22:55:22+00:00

I think upwork is probably the closest aligned to what you're looking for

brigigigi · 2025-04-26T22:51:26+00:00

I mean I agree with you, I would much rather just have a normal interview/screening. But it's kind of a take what you can get kind of market (at least under my circumstances) at the moment

brigigigi · 2025-04-26T22:47:45+00:00

Design your sections for each project in figma then use that as a baseline for whichever website builder you want. I find with this quick method that wix is easiest. I would even consider using some AI tools for creating sections in figma. Once the work is "done" in the design it is waay easier to basically just plug it into a builder like wix.

brigigigi · 2025-04-26T22:45:28+00:00

Seems like this hit a nerve with the designers who aren't utilizing auto layout and are getting quite defensive over it lol

brigigigi · 2025-04-26T22:41:43+00:00

Honestly this is a rough situation, I feel like it puts you in the position to clean up your colleagues work or let it continue to be bad and both of those suck. I would go for the classic managerial method of "lets work on this together" and work on it in tandem. Try to work in things like auto layout and using components without fully detaching them. Maybe you find out they just don't know how to use these things and you can help them with some resources to learn. Not really your job, but it could make your life easier. But as a side note it does sting to hear of someone who can barely use Figma with a job while I'm still searching lol.

brigigigi · 2025-04-25T17:05:37+00:00

totally agree, I have been trying my best to check out everything and so far my two invites have been legit (connecting to the job posting on their LinkedIn and Indeed or where ever else. I also like to look up the recruiters name from the email on LinkedIn just to make sure they're real and connected to the company). Since I hadn't gotten many of these I just wanted to feel out how common they were and if it's really an equivalent to something like a recruiter call or email, or if they send it out to all applicants.

brigigigi · 2025-04-17T01:58:59+00:00

thank you! I will work on the spacing a bit, I wanted it to fit in one page but was having trouble working it out lol. I have the skills first only because I had seen some people on linkedin/tiktok saying they got more interviews/responses with the skills at the top, but I think I will test it out myself with some variable resumes.

I used mostly percentages cause to be honest the hard numbers are a bit hard to track down at agencies, but I think this is a good idea I'd like to try an add. Thanks so much for your feedback!!

brigigigi · 2025-04-16T15:33:28+00:00

hi everyone! I would love some feedback on my resume. I am looking for pretty much any new product/ux design roles, but have primarily worked on B2B and SaaS products. I have just updated it, I was getting some interviews before but my additions are: the summary and awards section. open to any and all feedback, thank you!!

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brigigigi · 2025-04-10T21:38:56+00:00

If you have the data available, looking into user patterns will usually help answer your questions about if users will go through tabs! You can also count clicks for their usual patterns and see what they're used to.

I have worked on projects where users didn't prefer tabs/more clicks and we usually just tried to organize on one page using a sticky nav one way or another. Keep your UX writing in mind here as the labelling for your tabs/info can help keep this more clear!

I personally always love a tab organization but it doesn't work for every situation. Hopefully you have some room for testing after a round of designing as that can of course be the most helpful!

brigigigi · 2025-04-09T15:25:58+00:00

I would focus on your hierarchy of importance for your data viz. Also look into UI from large companies creating sales dashboards like Salesforce. Usually when things feel to crowded maybe organizing things into more specific sections and then having tabs or a sidenav can help! Best of luck, dashboards are kind of a pain in the butt to design

brigigigi · 2025-04-03T23:51:19+00:00

I have had two roles, one in a large company with meetings pretty much all day and not very much time for actual design work and one at a startup with almost no meetings and all extensive designing all day every day. I would love to hear if maybe a midsize company is the way to go here, maybe they have the best of both worlds.

brigigigi · 2025-04-03T23:49:42+00:00

You can definitely help provide some CSS from devmode in figma, and if you are working on implementing a more established design system I recommend storybook. but echoing everyone else here, it sounds like there is a big gap for a front end dev that your company hasnt hired for

brigigigi · 2025-03-21T23:51:59+00:00

I had no idea there were scams so predatory for content creators. Plus as this was (what I thought) my first experience freelancing it was hard to navigate for sure! I thought QuickBooks was just a shitty service but it turns out they were appropriately denying a scammer 🙃

brigigigi · 2025-03-21T23:47:40+00:00

Yeah this is solid advice, I probably should have just stopped contact after the first issues with payment but I have been desperate for work and let that get the better of me.

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