Staff Product Designer, Graphite
$200-240k
+ Equity
Office located in New York City, NY
Code review platform
Be an early applicant
Code review platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-240k
+ Equity
Office located in New York City, NY
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create products & workflows that help fast-moving eng teams achieve more.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience designing digital products
- Full stack design skills (UX, design systems, UI, prototyping)
- Very strong sense for visual design for UI (eg. layouts, components, design systems, polish, etc)
- Ability to translate ambiguous user needs to concrete requirements and turn them into comprehensive design specs
- Proven product design experience with concrete examples of iterative approaches to complex problems
- Experience creating scalable and responsive patterns
- Experience creating or maintaining design systems
- Mastery of contemporary design and prototyping tools and best practices
- Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills
Desirable
- Experience designing for SaaS, enterprise, devtools, or productivity tools
- Self-sufficient & ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment
- Experience with zero-to-one projects or experience as a founding designer
- Interest in or experience working on developer tools and workflows
- A good understanding of web front-end (i.e. HTML/CSS, React)
- User experience research experience (eg. user interviews, user testing, etc)
- Branding, art direction, graphic design, marketing design, or motion design experience
What the job involves
- Graphite is growing rapidly, we're looking for a staff product designer to help us define and execute on our product vision, bring innovative and impactful features to our users, and evolve our design system
- Collaborate with product managers to define the the strategic product vision
- Help build out and evolve the design philosophies, processes, and culture at Graphite
- Explore innovative UX and UI patterns
- Solve complex technical challenges with creative problem solving
- Execute on 0-1 feature releases and large product updates
- Help identify new business and product opportunities through a strong understanding of our capabilities, user needs, and the competitive landscape
Our take
Graphite is making advanced code review and developer tools accessible to a wider range of engineers, breaking down the barriers that typically limit such resources to teams at large companies. While industry giants like Facebook and Google use tools like Phabricator and Critique, Graphite offers open-source solutions with a command-line interface and dashboard, empowering developers of all sizes to streamline their code review processes.
What sets Graphite apart is its ability to dramatically enhance engineering team efficiency with innovative features. Unlike traditional linear code review processes - where code is committed and then reviewed - Graphite allows for concurrent reviews. This enables engineers to continue working on other tasks while their code is being reviewed, leading to a much more productive workflow.
As the company continues to roll out regular performance improvements and refine its features, its goal is to expand its user base to tens of thousands of engineers. With strong support and a growing community of users, Graphite is looking to gain traction across even the most traditional engineering teams, hoping to shift their approach to code review and developer tools toward a more modern and efficient model.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Apr 2020
$2.3m
SEED
Total funding: $22.3m
Company benefits
- Great equipment: New laptop, monitor, and stipend for desk accessories
- 401(k) Plan: Helping you save for the future
- Equity: Employee-friendly equity terms
- Health benefits: Top-tier health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid meals: Company-paid lunch, dinner, and coffee during workdays
- Commuter benefits: Covering your commute costs
- Paid time off: Four weeks of paid time off
- Family leave; Sixteen weeks of parental leave
- Quarterly hack weeks: Take time to develop what you feel most passionately about
Company values
- Work in pencil - We constantly edit & improve everything we build. Expect your work to be changed and erased as we grow
- Mine, cut, and polish - Start by testing many ideas to learn what resonates. Next, refine and reduce to only what is most valuable. Finally, polish until the result is stunning
- Exercise empathy - Take time to understand what matters to our users and teammates. Treat everyone with kindness, honesty, and respect
- Play like a championship team - We are a team, not a family. We align our ambitions with the team’s goals. When we succeed, we celebrate together
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
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Leadership
Merrill Lutsky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously product at Square, Oscar, and various NYC-based startups. B.A. from Harvard.
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