Staff Product Designer, Contentful
$192-215k
This position is eligible for equity awards in accordance with the terms of Contentful’s equity plans
1+ day a week in office
Content management platform
Open for applications
Content management platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$192-215k
This position is eligible for equity awards in accordance with the terms of Contentful’s equity plans
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To modernize how content flows by leading the transition from legacy CMS to content infrastructure.
Role
Who you are
- 6-8 years of relevant experience
- Excellence in UI and visual product design skills
- Strategic UX thinking and problem solving
- Self starter, organized and driven
- Comfortable navigating ambiguities and capable of making bold decisions
- Comfortable working with a global company with offices in US and EU
- Proven ability to create alignment on cross-team product challenges
- Comfortable with technical complexity
- Strong conceptual skills to design for complex scenarios
- Strong communication skills and confidence in communicating with company leadership
- Proficiency in meeting and workshop facilitation
- Experience working with design systems and strong knowledge of interaction patterns
- Experience in running user research and testing activities
- Experience growing 0 to 1 products is a plus
What the job involves
- Contentful is a customer-centric platform company that's passionate and opinionated about content management and delivery within digital teams and leveraging the value of content throughout the digital organization
- To help us nurture our design practice, we're seeking an experienced Staff Product Designer
- You will drive UX for a team that builds Contentful’s new product, Studio
- Studio empowers digital team customers to visually and dynamically assemble visual experiences at scale
- You will shape the future of this product in collaboration with cross functional partners and other Studio designers
- Alongside product and engineering managers, you’ll support your product line during discovery, solutioning, delivery, and iteration
- You’ll work collaboratively with a Sr. Design Manager in the US and with design partners in Berlin
- Contentful’s US based Prod Dev team is young, which means you will have an incredible opportunity to join us on this journey to do meaningful, challenging work while growing your career
- Translate strategy into a structured design process, and assist in requirements definition
- Lead design projects on your team by crafting and delivering best in class UX, UI and interaction design documentation
- Partner with product managers, and engineer leads in identifying and defining the most impactful problems to solve based on user centered research and ananlysis
- Partner with Contentful’s design system designers to mature Studio’s use of Contentful’s open source design system
- Take a proactive role in ensuring quality of output
- Build iteratively and experiment to grow a new product
- Conduct primary research including in depth interviews and usability testing, in order to deeply understand customer needs and challenges
- Take the user’s perspective and explore solutions from multiple directions
- Hands-on create design archetypes, e.g. customer journeys, system maps, user flows, prototypes, UX copy, etc
- Facilitate team discovery workshops and align the team on the context of the opportunities to be ceased
- Participate in critques, and provide peer mentorship to other designers in the organization to continuously raise our quality bar
Application process
- The application deadline is 1/15/25
Our take
Creating, distributing and managing digital content can be complex, time-consuming and difficult, especially at scale. Contentful solves this problem by centralizing all content management into one API-based system.
Since founding in 2013, Contentful has grown to become one of the largest companies of its kind. It now serves thousands of customers, many of which are enterprises such as Danone and Bang & Olufsen. Importantly, the company has continued to improve its offering, for example by partnering with eSSENTIAL Accessibility to offer a way for users to achieve ADA compliance.
In recent years, Contentful has grown its executive team, attracting top talent from companies like Zendesk and Atlassian which has helped to accelerate its ambitious growth strategy. It has also expanded its relationship with AWS, launching the Contentful Composable Content Platform in AWS Marketplace, a key move that will help to broaden its reach and ensure it remains a key player in the competitive CMS market.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Employee endorsements
Diversity is a priority
"I really like the no-nonsense approach to D+E+I in Contentful. We employ people from over 70 nationalities, there are a lot of grassroots employee..."
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2021
$175m
SERIES F
Jun 2020
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $331.2m
Company benefits
- Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, education days, and volunteer days
- Use your personal education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- Use your physical fitness budget to get away from your desk and support your physical wellness
- A monthly phone/internet stipend and phone upgrade reimbursement after 2 years
- Plus, Contentful socks! And other amazing swag as part of company events. Oh yeah!
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for information, support, discussion, and counseling for life’s challenges
- Comprehensive health/dental/vision care package covering 100% of monthly premiums for employees
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave to care for and focus on your growing family
- New hire office equipment stipend. Get the gear you need to work at your best
Company values
- Be humble - We are not centered on ourselves, but focus on the needs and contributions of others around them
- Embody a growth mindset - We believe in our collective potential to develop and evolve through dedication and continuous learning
- Start with the customer and work backwards - The first question we ask is “What customer need does this solve?” and treats each customer with empathy
- Strive together - Creating anything of significance without collaboration is challenging, so we work hard together to make an impact
Company HQ
Brunnenviertel, Berlin, Germany
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Leadership
Paolo Negri
(CTO)Previously worked as Senior Developer at AutoScout24, and Senior Developer Team Lead at Wooga.
Sascha Konietzke
(CSO & Board Member)Previously worked as EMEA Manager at Hewlett-Packard, and founded a range of companies including angel investment firm Ko9.
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