About the Role
Senior Product Designer
Remote
Neon is an open-source company on a mission to create a cloud-native database service for every developer.
We are looking for a Senior-level Product Designer with a focus on DevEx.
In this role, you will:
- Design end-to-end holistic experience, from discovery to ideation, testing, and prototyping of the ideal user experience
- Define, test, and iterate on the interaction design of new and existing features (user-flows, detailed product wireframes, prototypes)
- Participate in user research to guide product design decisions (contextual inquiry, usability testing, competitive analysis, etc.)
- Ensure all aspects of our product are easy to use and delightful
- Influence product and design direction through compelling storytelling that communicates a clear UX vision to all the stakeholders
- Design beautiful visual UI that adheres to our UI design standards (detailed high-resolution screen mockups)
- Work with developer teams to ensure pixel-perfect execution designs
- Drive the collaboration and build strong partnerships with Design, UX Research, Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams to collaboratively create, align, and execute your vision
We are looking for someone who has
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience in creating and implementing UX/UI design
- A strong portfolio that shows how you tackle complex user problems, research and validate your assumptions and solutions, and showcase the impact of your work
- Experienced with design tools (like Figma, Sketch, Invision, AdobeSuit, etc.)
- Practical familiarity with the ecosystem of modern dev tools
- Technical aptitude:
- Worked closely with engineers
- Understand software development life cycles and development flow with git
- Used or co-created a CLI
- Demonstrated ability to produce low-fidelity sketches on tight schedules
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize real user feedback into designs
- Demonstrated ability to create click-through prototypes to test and validate working hypotheses with users.
- Demonstrated knowledge of responsive design techniques for different form factors (desktop vs. mobile)
- Solid understanding of user-centered design process and strong knowledge of user experience principles.
- Experience applying lean UX principles with a focus on collaboration with extended team members
- Experience iterating to improve designs based on feedback from peer reviews, demonstrations to stakeholders, and usability evaluation activities such as usability testing
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including techniques to persuade and negotiate and the ability to articulate alternative approaches
- You’re not afraid of getting technical: No prior developer tools experience is required, but you are excited to learn about databases, developer workflows, and application development
Additional Bonus
- You are familiar with relational databases, and typical developer and operational workflows around them
- You understand developer workflows, you are accustomed to CI/CD, and you have worked with CLIs
- You have experience in PLG-led SaaS – a proven track record of designing successful SaaS-based software products and features from scratch in the startup building dev tools or productivity tools – starting at initial research and discovery, through concept design/iteration, to completed product launch and continued improvements.
- You thrive in a fast-paced work environment that requires independent self-direction with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication