Product Designer, Stack Overflow
$118-178k
+ Equity. Salary applicable to US candidates, other locations may differ
More information about location
Public Q&A platform for developers
Open for applications
Public Q&A platform for developers
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$118-178k
+ Equity. Salary applicable to US candidates, other locations may differ
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help coders help each other become better coders by sharing their knowledge with one another.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a generalist—someone who is familiar with research to early-stage design explorations to high-fidelity mockups and front-end development
- But most importantly, we’re looking for someone who’s excited to join our small team, to dig into big projects, and to learn and grow with us
- 3+ years of product design experience
- Applied experience of thoughtful, thorough design work in a responsive web setting
- A deep curiosity and ability to consider product strategy and vision. You don’t just care about how a feature should look, but you’re interested in why we’re designing it in the first place
- Experience in conducting, digesting, and applying user research
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- High levels of organization and ability to work independently
- (Desired) Experience working on a consumer facing product
- (Bonus) experience with designing for developers or other technical audience
- (Bonus) experience using (and/or contributing to) design systems
What the job involves
- As a product designer at Stack Overflow, you’ll create and build products that directly impact the work and the lives of those developers
- We’re looking for a Product Designer to join our User Experience team
- Our team is a small group made of Product Designers and Researchers
- In this particular role, you’ll work on our community products, which include Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network
- You’ll be designing for one of the largest, most engaging products on the internet
- While we’re proud of how far we’ve come, we need your help to make Stack Overflow an attractive community for the next 10 million developers
- You’ll also be spending lots of time working with all our other product designers, whether that’s contributing to our design system, participating in critique, or just hanging out with us in Slack
- We’re a team that rejects competition between designers and instead embraces collaboration and is always looking for ways to teach and help each other
- Follow our fast-moving product development process in close collaboration with your product team consisting of engineers, researchers, product managers, and other designers
- Identify when user research and experience design methods are necessary, and conduct or collaborate on that discovery work
- Partner closely with our research team, drawing insights from their work, partnering to run your own studies, and turning findings into tangible solutions
- Design high-quality visuals, interactions, workflows, and copy that are user-centered and consistent with our design language
- Use your design work appropriately in context with the overall product and business goals to impact and drive product strategy
- Work with our world-class product managers and engineers to deliver your product vision, including writing design specs and reviewing work before it is shipped to millions of users
- Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive team environment where design ideas and feedback are shared openly and with the best intentions
- Building new features to help reduce the amount of unanswered questions around the network
- Work alongside data to optimize and modernize search results
- Interact with community and design peers to update design system components
Our take
Stack Overflow is one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide: a Q&A style forum for developers, gamified with upvotes, downvotes, and badges, with over 14 million registered users and upwards of 21 million questions. It's grown to become a go-to resource in the community.
The site has proven a good springboard into providing other knowledge sharing services too - most notable among which is the company’s teams platform. This, along with advertising and jobs listings make for a strong revenue model that saw the company valued at well over $1B when it was acquired back in 2021.
This pricey acquisition means Stack Overflow has a secure buffer it can use to expand. This seems likely to take the form of growing its global product audience so it can boost revenue - as things stand, its teams platform is used mainly in the US. If Stack Overflow can get a foothold in developing countries like India and Brazil, it could continue its strong history of impressive growth.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2020
$85m
SERIES E
Sep 2015
$40m
SERIES D
Total funding: $209.1m
Company benefits
- We provide full health coverage for you and your family. That means that Stack Overflow pays 100% of your premiums. Additionally, we provide supplemental benefits such as telemedicine options
- We have a remote-friendly culture. Before the pandemic we were 40% remote. Today, we’re over 80% permanently remote and won’t require employees to return to an office if they don’t want to. We believe people do their best work when they love where they work
- While we’re fully remote, we’re supporting all employees with home office reimbursements and internet stipends. We also encourage employees to set their working hours on their calendar and in Slack to encourage flexibility
- We offer paid parental leave, a meal stipend, and the primary caregiver has the option to come back to work part time for up to one year. We also have a special caregiver policy due to the pandemic
- Access to a personal and professional coach on a 1:1 basis to help develop your career. Additionally, all employees have annual tuition reimbursement up to $5,250, professional development budget of up to $2,500 for continuing education, conferences, and memberships, in order to advance their skills and knowledge
- We provide employees monthly fitness reimbursements as well as host regular yoga and meditation classes during the work day. That’s in addition to regular virtual cooking classes, “bev bashes” (what we call happy hours), and more
- We care deeply for our employees and provide paid time off to encourage their voluntary involvement in and support of programs that positively impact the quality of life within the communities in which we live
Company values
- Adopt a customer-first mindset
- Be flexible and inclusive
- Be transparent
- Empower people to deliver outstanding results
- Keep community at our center
- Learn, share, grow
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
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Leadership
Prasanth Chandrasekar
(CEO & Board Member, not founder)Previously a VP of Barclay's Investment Bank, then worked his way through various senior level positions at Rackspace Technology, ultimately serving as SVP & GM of cloud and infrastructure services.
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