Product Designer

“We’re a software startup with a globally distributed team. As we don’t have any offices, you will be working remotely; in other words, we all work from our homes.”

We are looking for a talented product designer to help us continuously improve the user experience for our on-premise product ClusterControl and our cloud services. Lead the design of great new features and enhancements to our entire product lines.

You are passionate about UX/UI design and understand usability, have an eye for visual consistency and a strong sense of reducing the complex to bare essentials.

Be part of a great distributed global team of highly skilled and motivated colleagues building the next generation database cluster management and monitoring application and cloud services.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with the product and development teams and direct the design of visually appealing and intuitive interfaces for all new features and enhancements for our projects
• Initiate, suggest, and lead major UX&UI refactorings for a more intuitive user experience
• Design visual frameworks, detailed user and interaction flows, wireframes, mockups, and quick prototypes as well as polished visual assets
• Capture all interactions, edge-cases, “unhappy paths” and the various states of these experiences through deliverables such as user flows, product maps, wireframes, and prototypes
• Understand user behavior and motivation at a fundamental level, through user interviews, research, etc., and through the development of journey maps, user personas, and other artifacts
• Conduct qualitative user research, interviews, usability testing, and other research methods and data analysis techniques to make informed recommendations for UX/UI
• Advocate for the customer and user-centered design throughout the organization
• Understand and distill complex problems and propose simple, elegant solutions
• Have the ability to quickly understand the business needs of any of our distinct brands, and create compelling, effective UX designs
• Contributes to the success of the company by leading or assisting with other projects and tasks as assigned
• Work with product management to define requirements, not only translate them to design

Essential Qualifications

• 5+ Years of software User Experience and/or UI and Visual design experience, and shipping successful consumer-facing products at consumer-focused companies
• Experience working with design systems and modern UI design tools (Sketch, Figma, Framer, UXPin, Invision etc)
• Comfortable with an agile approach to design, with an emphasis on user testing and rapid prototyping and iterative design techniques
• Story telling – Ability to tell simple user stories illustrating solutions
• Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, and analytical skills.
• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user interactions
• A passion for solving design problems while owning all facets of design (strategy, art direction, interaction design and research)
• Up to date with the latest UX&UI trends, techniques and best practices
• Proficiency in HTML and CSS for rapid prototyping