Senior Product Designer

September 27

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Description

• 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.

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• You can work 100% remote: we'll handle all formalities to arrange work from your home • We grant equity (stock options) to all full-time hires • We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, and much more) • We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Lisbon)