Senior Product Designer, Alation
2-5 days a week in office
Enterprise data intelligence solutions
Open for applications
Enterprise data intelligence solutions
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
2-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help businesses and institutions to get better value from their data, improving outreach and profit by combining human potential with modern data intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Curious and resourceful. You don’t wait for instructions, but are motivated by the problem and can drive a project through various stages of clarity to reach a solution
- Motivated by the why. You know that technically delivering a piece of functionality is not enough, but that it must be desirable, viable, and feasible
- Independent, but collaborative. You can operate with minimal oversight, but actively seek feedback from peers and stakeholders, and can thoughtfully critique the work of others
- Analytical and creative. You dig deep into the technology to understand and challenge constraints
- Bold and scientific. You can accept risk when needed to move a project forward, and you see it as an opportunity to test your hypothesis. You use outcomes to determine next steps
- Self aware and growth-minded. You know that you will not always have the right answers or make the right decisions, but see these occasions as opportunities to reflect and grow
- 5-7 years of experience working as a product designer on complex consumer or enterprise applications, preferably workflow or process-oriented
- Experience performing or participating in research at both the exploration and validation stages of a project
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field
- Solid understanding of user-centered design principles and practices, and the ability to advocate for the user's perspective throughout the design process
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to translate complex concepts into clear and visually compelling design solutions
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and visual, to effectively articulate design rationale and present design concepts to stakeholders
- Up-to-date knowledge of design trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in the field
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to help improve the way companies connect their data to our platform. Upgrading this experience will accelerate our customers’ time to value, reduce setup and maintenance costs, and set the tone for their overall experience with Alation. The greatest design challenge is in making the complex simple - and that’s exactly the challenge we want you to tackle
- Become the expert in customer and user needs around the setup and maintenance of Alation by conducting competitive and primary research
- Follow an iterative design process, from initial concept to final polished design, based on user feedback, usability testing results, technical capabilities, and evolving project requirements, maintaining a flexible and adaptive approach
- Partner with user researchers to understand the customer problems and validate your designs through user testing and qualitative research
- Ability to work independently and autonomously without losing sight of the larger user experience
- Effectively collaborate, communicate, and explain design rationale to business and technical partners
- Give and receive critiques in design reviews
Application process
- Please include a portfolio with your application that showcases:
- 2-3 projects representative of your range and expertise
- Your thought process around constraints, tradeoffs, risks, etc
- Reflections on what you learned & might do differently in the future
Salary benchmarks
Our take
While companies continue to gather huge volumes of data on customer behavior, efforts in leveraging said data are often hindered by data access and interpretation, which ultimately leads to incomplete datasets.
Alation is a machine learning powered data catalog. It pulls together all a company’s key data from popular sources like Oracle, Spark and Tableau, and presents it on its platform. This means that users can search for multiple strands of data on just one API. Its services include data governance, digital transformation, and data discovery.
With both the data catalog and data analytics market growing rapidly at a 25% annual growth rate, Alation finds itself in a very strong position having shown triple digit growth for four years running. The platform is used for diverse purposes by Pfizer, FinnAir, Pepsico, Salesforce, American Express and BMW.
It’s this range of applicability, from weather-induced flight delay prediction to rare disease identification, that has led to investments resulting in a valuation of $1.7B. Though it's not the only company of its ilk on the market, with the likes of Informatica, Aginity and Alteryx all competing, Alation’s rapid year-on-year growth, solid investment from the likes of Japanese data communications leader NTT DOCOMO and an elite customer base bodes well for the company's future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2022
$123m
SERIES E
Jun 2021
$110m
SERIES D
Total funding: $315m
Company benefits
- Health and Wellness: health insurance; dental insurance; vision insurance; life insurance; short-term disability; long-term disability; wellness program; FSA account; HSA account; fitness subsidies
- Vacation and Time Off: paid vacation; paid holidays; personal/sick days; maternity leave; leave of absence
- Financial and Retirement: 401(k); company equity; performance bonus
- Professional Development: promote from within; lunch and learns
- Office Life: flexible work hours; remote work opportunities; commuter benefits program; casual dress; happy hours; snacks; some meals provided; company outings
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Satyen Sangani
(CEO)Having studied at Columbia, they worked at Morgan Stanley, Texas Pacific Group, and Andale, before an MSc at Oxford. They then worked as a VP at Oracle for over 9 years prior to co-founding Alation in July 2012.
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