Product Designer
You will design intuitive, developer-focused product experiences that make complex database technology easier to understand and use. This role combines product design, prototyping, user research, interaction design, and cross-functional collaboration, focusing on turning technical workflows into clear, scalable experiences while helping shape the future of an open-source developer platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Design intuitive product experiences across database tools, developer workflows, onboarding experiences, and new product features.
- Translate product ideas and complex technical requirements into user flows, working prototypes, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs.
- Lead complex design challenges from early exploration through final implementation, balancing user needs, technical constraints, and business objectives.
- Build interactive prototypes that communicate ideas clearly, validate concepts, and create alignment across product and engineering teams.
- Identify potential usability challenges early and develop thoughtful solutions that improve clarity, accessibility, and overall user experience.
- Collaborate closely with Product Engineers, Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Product Marketing Managers, Success Engineers, Sales, and fellow designers.
- Conduct and apply user research, customer feedback, behavioral insights, and product data to inform and validate design decisions.
- Simplify complex technical workflows while maintaining the functionality and flexibility required by developer audiences.
- Contribute reusable design patterns and product primitives that can be extended across multiple products, features, and use cases.
- Maintain consistency, usability, and scalability across a growing product ecosystem while continuously raising the standard of product craft.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong product design experience with the ability to take ideas from early concepts through polished, production-ready experiences.
- Skilled in interaction design, user experience, prototyping, user flows, and high-fidelity interface design.
- Comfortable designing complex products and workflows for technical or developer-focused audiences.
- Strong prototyping mindset with a preference for demonstrating ideas visually and interactively rather than relying solely on documentation.
- Able to balance speed and design quality, understanding when to explore deeply and when to move quickly toward implementation.
- Strong understanding of user-centered design with the ability to incorporate research, feedback, and data into design decisions.
- Comfortable collaborating with people across engineering, product, marketing, customer success, and other disciplines.
- High standards for usability, visual quality, consistency, and overall product experience.
- Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools and working with code when building or testing product concepts.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing developer tools, databases, cloud platforms, infrastructure products, APIs, or other technically complex software.
- Experience working within open-source, SaaS, startup, or developer-focused technology environments.
- Familiarity with creating scalable design systems, reusable components, and product primitives.
- Experience using code or AI-assisted coding tools to prototype and explore product experiences.
- Evidence of personal projects, experiments, or other independently built products demonstrating curiosity and a strong maker mindset.
Professional Attributes
- Curious and highly motivated to build, experiment, and continuously improve.
- Collaborative and comfortable working with people who bring different skills, perspectives, and technical backgrounds.
- Strong sense of ownership with the ability to independently lead design initiatives from concept through delivery.
- Detail-oriented with high standards for design craft and user experience.
- Pragmatic and able to balance ambitious design ideas with technical realities and delivery timelines.
- Proactive problem-solver who identifies usability challenges before they become larger product issues.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, asynchronous, and globally distributed environment.
Benefits and Highlights
- Fully remote opportunity with the flexibility to work from anywhere globally.
- Co-working support through a WeWork membership or equivalent allowance.
- Equity ownership through the company’s ESOP program.
- Technology allowance to build an effective home or remote working environment.
- Health insurance coverage, including 100% employee coverage and 80% dependent coverage.
- Flexible, asynchronous working environment with autonomy over how you organize your time.
- Annual company off-sites bringing the global team together for collaboration and connection.
- Annual professional development allowance for courses, books, conferences, and other learning opportunities.
- Opportunity to shape product experiences used by a global community of developers while working on a rapidly evolving open-source technology platform.