Summary
The job is for a Product Designer at Metabase, a company that provides data tools with a focus on simplicity and elegance. The role involves owning design projects, developing deep understanding of users, finding ways to make the product more joyful, and making decisions impacting user happiness and productivity.
Requirements
- Are able to handle enterprise-level complexity, but with the skills to deliver solutions with consumer-grade simplicity and elegance
- Have 5+ years of experience designing Web or SaaS applications in complex or technical spaces like dev tools, data visualization, biotech, etc
- Are curious, eager, and able to understand the technical underpinnings of a problem in service of finding elegant solutions
- Seek solutions to root causes rather than applying UI band-aids and knobs
- Don't allow 'perfect' to be the enemy of 'great,' and are biased towards shipping in order to learn and deliver value
- Know that requesting and giving feedback are the best way to up-level their work and others’.”
- Are excited to work asynchronously with a global team
Responsibilities
- Owning design projects from initial solution explorations to shipping the final, beautiful thing side-by-side with engineers
- Developing deep understanding of our users and their problems from qualitative and quantitative data
- Proactively finding and proposing ways to make every part of the product more joyful to use
- Making decisions that directly impact the happiness and productivity of scores of people around the world
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing fairly technical and deep Web applications
- Able to consistently deliver beautiful, thoughtful final designs
- Strong ability to craft clear narratives and paint a vision that builds understanding and alignment within a team
- Can break down complex problems into smaller parts and find ways to sequence and ship things incrementally and iteratively
- Possess a mature design process that focuses on identifying core user problems, and exploring novel and distinct ways to solve them
- Strong written communication skills to aid in requesting feedback, explaining explorations, and defining designs
Benefits
- Flexibility (define your own schedule and work from wherever you want)
- Autonomy
- An environment that fosters growth, learning, and development
- Work with a global team (50% outside the US)
