Head of Product Design, Postman
API Platform
$250-300k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Collaboration platform for API development
Job no longer available
Collaboration platform for API development
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$250-300k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a proven leader with deep expertise in user-centered design, a track record of creating elegant and scalable enterprise solutions, and the ability to inspire and grow a high-performing design organization
- 10+ years of experience in design leadership roles, with a proven track record of scaling and managing large, high-performing design teams in fast-paced environments
- Deep expertise in user-centered design principles, with hands-on experience delivering end-to-end design solutions for enterprise and developer tools
- Strong business acumen and the ability to align design strategy with business objectives to drive measurable outcomes
- Proven ability to navigate the challenges of designing for complex technical workflows, ensuring simplicity and usability
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership and customers
- Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams, particularly Product, Engineering, and GTM teams
- Familiarity with developer workflows, APIs, and CI/CD pipelines. Hands-on development experience is a strong plus
- Data-driven mindset with a passion for measuring the impact of design on key business and user metrics
Desirable
- Deep familiarity with Postman’s product and a strong understanding of developer tools and workflows
- Experience shipping enterprise-grade products to a global audience, solving large-scale technical challenges
- Ability to simplify complex technical concepts into approachable and intuitive user experiences
- Demonstrated thought leadership in the design community, with a history of advocating for user-centered design principles
- Hands-on coding experience or a deep technical understanding of software development practices
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Head of Product Design, API Platform to lead Postman’s design vision and strategy, ensuring a best-in-class user experience for developers and organizations at all scales
- This role is critical to Postman’s mission to simplify and enhance the API lifecycle while delivering innovative, scalable, and delightful design solutions for our users
- As a key member of the executive leadership team, the Head of Design will lead the Product Design organization, set the strategic design direction, and work cross-functionally to align design with product, engineering, and business goals
- Your success in this role will be measured by customer satisfaction, team performance, product adoption, and your ability to elevate Postman’s design culture across the company
- Strategic Vision: Develop and communicate a clear design strategy aligned with Postman’s mission and product roadmap. Champion a vision that sets the standard for exceptional developer experiences, ensuring Postman remains a leader in the API-first space
- Design Leadership: Lead, inspire, and mentor a world-class design organization. Build a strong team culture that encourages innovation, collaboration, and continuous growth, enabling designers to thrive and deliver high-quality work
- End-to-End Design: Drive the end-to-end design process across all Postman products, including API test automation, performance testing, and developer collaboration tools. Oversee the execution of research, prototyping, user testing, and implementation to ensure seamless and scalable design outcomes
- Customer Empathy: Deeply understand developer workflows across startups, SMBs, mid-market, and enterprise customers. Regularly engage with users to identify pain points, validate ideas, and iterate on design solutions
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, and Go-to-Market teams to align design initiatives with business goals. Serve as a bridge between teams, ensuring design is integrated into every step of the product lifecycle
- Innovation: Drive innovation in API test automation, performance benchmarking, and developer tooling. Push the boundaries of what is possible in enterprise-grade developer solutions while maintaining simplicity and usability
- Enterprise Focus: Collaborate with enterprise customers to design scalable, secure, and compliant solutions. Ensure Postman’s design systems meet the demands of complex organizations, seamlessly integrating with CI/CD pipelines and diverse tech stacks
- Metrics-Driven: Define and measure success metrics for design, including adoption, engagement, and user satisfaction. Use data-driven insights to inform design decisions and continuously optimize for improved outcomes
- Champion Design Culture: Elevate the role of design across Postman, advocating for user-centered principles and embedding design as a core element of the company’s DNA. Represent design in executive discussions and serve as a thought leader both internally and externally
Our take
Postman is a SaaS collaboration platform designed to streamline API development teams. APIs serve as the backbone for communication and data sharing across numerous applications, playing a pivotal role in today's device-centric landscape. The platform offers tools for testing, version control, and documentation, ensuring the efficient production of APIs.
Initially founded in Bangalore, Postman has since relocated its headquarters to San Francisco. With a prestigious clientele including X, Shopify, and Intuit, the platform boasts over 15M developers worldwide. Postman actively engages with the API developer community through various initiatives, such as hosting hackathons with enticing cash prizes.
The growing reliance on APIs to fuel digital transformation, compounded by the widespread shift to remote work and digitalization, underscores their critical importance. Moreover, the sensitive nature of APIs, given the data they transmit and the potential security risks, accentuates the need for robust development practices. Hence, Postman has thrived as companies seek to develop secure APIs efficiently to meet evolving demands.
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Company benefits
- Health care: Based on where you're located and the plans available there, you can have up to 100% of your and your family's premium costs covered by Postman, or receive a generous monthly allowance to supplement existing medical coverage
- Unlimited PTO: All full-time Postman employees have unlimited paid time off (PTO). We strongly encourage everyone to exercise this benefit to ensure that personal and work lives remain well-balanced, healthy, and fully charged. Your body, mind, spirit, and loved ones will appreciate it!
- Supporting healthy meals: We want to ensure you eat healthy each day. It's why we provide a taxable monthly stipend so that you can be nourished throughout the week
- Play well, be well: We're serious about your wellness. Whether it's a boxing club membership, hula classes, or a longboard, we're here to cheer you on to get out and get moving. We'll reimburse you for activities and items that bring you joy through our wellness and fitness program
- A room with a view: We want you set up for success! To help make your home office comfortable, we'll provide a one-time reimbursement for your office set-up and headphones. Internet and phone costs are also reimbursable on a monthly basis
- Career development: We support your career development by providing access to unlimited courses on Udemy and a book allowance. Enhance and uplevel your skills, and even learn something completely new!
Company values
- Create with curiosity: We repeatedly ask, “Why?” and challenge best practices. Asking “Why?” and “Why not?” is how we start each experimental journey, with a willingness to fail until we succeed. At Postman, no star is too far to shoot for
- Earn trust: We seek input first and listen before taking action. We're always open to perspectives because a diversity of thought and discussion improves our chances of discovering the best solutions
- Embrace constraints: We see constraints as an opportunity to be creative and resourceful with the people and tools we have available to us
- Win together: We count on each other, always offer help, and focus on solutions. We are a hybrid workplace spanning the globe, but Postmanauts are part of a tight, trusting community that appreciates each person's contributions toward Postman's mission
- Own & deliver: We learn from our mistakes and adapt with ease. We push ourselves to take bold but smart risks, and we celebrate failures for the learnings we gain as a result
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Abhinav Asthana
(CEO)They began their career as CTO of BITS360, which they co-founded in 2007, before co-founding Grayscale Design and TeliportMe. They used this entrepreneurial experience to co-found Postman in October 2014, aiming to simplify API development.
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