Product Designer, Astronomer
$180-200k
Data orchestration platform
Open for applications
Data orchestration platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$180-200k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help companies build, run, and observe their data pipelines through its data orchestration platform powered by Apache Airflow.
Role
Who you are
- Your background may be unconventional; as long as you have the essential qualifications, we encourage you to apply
- While having "bonus" qualifications makes for a strong candidate, Astronomer values diverse experiences
- Many of us at Astronomer haven't followed traditional career paths, and we welcome it if yours hasn't either
- 3+ years of experience in product design, with a portfolio showcasing your work on SaaS or cloud-based products
- Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and how to design for complex software products, especially in the data or developer tool space
- Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or similar
- Experience with creating and maintaining design systems
- Knowledge of user research methods and experience translating research into impactful product designs
- Ability to work cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to drive design solutions in a fast-paced, iterative product cycle
Desirable
- Experience with data visualization tools, developer-centric platforms, or workflow orchestration (e.g., Apache Airflow)
What the job involves
- As a member of our team, you will be at the forefront of the industry as we strive to deliver the world's data
- We are looking for an experienced Product Designer to join our team and help shape the future of Astronomer's product portfolio
- You’ll play a key role in crafting seamless and intuitive user experiences, designing thoughtful interfaces, and creating a cohesive design language across our platform
- You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to turn complex problems into beautiful, simple, and functional designs
- Work closely with product managers and engineers to conceptualize, design, and deliver user-centric features for our cloud platform
- Conduct user research, gather insights, and apply feedback to improve the product experience
- Develop wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that effectively communicate design ideas and product flows
- Create high-fidelity designs and ensure consistency across all design elements and user interactions
- Collaborate in an agile environment to ensure the timely delivery of design work and its seamless integration with development efforts
- Define and evolve the design system, ensuring a cohesive visual and interaction experience across the platform
- Partner with the product and marketing teams to align user experience with product positioning and business goals
- Advocate for design thinking and contribute to a culture of experimentation, iteration, and learning
Our take
Developing data pipelines is essential for modern businesses to stay competitive, but building them can be a slow process. Workflow management tools for data engineering pipelines such as Apache Airflow makes the development process significantly simpler, but managing it manually is still a repetitive, convoluted, and time-consuming process.
Astronomer provides a data orchestration platform called Astro powered by Apache Airflow, aiming to automate its data pipeline management processes, unify data flows, and ultimately help businesses to access the software's full potential without DevOps. The company claims that its collaborative system helps teams to build data pipelines faster, increase data availability, ensure runtime environments are reliable within cloud infrastructures, and provide a holistic overview of business data.
Whilst it is undeniable that the company faces competition from other data orchestration platforms, Astronomer has been smart to recognize the presence of inefficiencies in Apache Airflow, despite its great potential. The company is thus providing solutions to improve it, not replace it, a unique perspective that shows great potential for Astronomer to disrupt the market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Mar 2022
$213m
SERIES C
Jan 2021
$43.6m
SERIES B
Total funding: $279.8m
Company benefits
- Remote friendly, work from anywhere
- If you’re in a city with an office, it’s there (and stocked with snacks) when you need it
- Co-workers in over 40 states and 15 countries around the world
- Health, dental, and vision insurance at little to no cost for individuals, and at competitive rates for your dependents
- Disability and life insurance policies in case something happens
- Unlimited vacation - we do track vacation days and actively encourage people to take it (on average, Astronomers take 20 days of vacation per year)
- Parental leave
- Laptop of your choice, and a stipend to help with your work-from-home setup
- Monthly $170 pre-tax stipend intended to cover your cellphone and WiFi bills
- Yearly internal summit for all employees
- Regular access to conferences, workshops, and meetups in the ecosystem
Company values
- Empathy - We're humans first. We seek to understand why people do what they do and believe that innovation comes from human-centric questions, discoveries, and decisions. We act with compassion and build trust by owning our impact on the people and systems around us
- Inclusion - We welcome diverse perspectives and value our differences. We're intentional about cultivating a respectful and welcoming environment with no ceiling on opportunity. Collaboration is our superpower
- Agility - We're a multi-disciplined team that’s focused on execution but nimble enough to adapt as the needs of our company, industry, and world evolve. We see change as opportunity
- Grit - We are energetic problem-solvers. We roll up our sleeves and figure it out as we go, navigating ambiguity with resilience. We’re powered by a shared sense of purpose and commitment to delivering excellence
- Curiosity - We’re humble learners with deep curiosity about the world, technology, and each other. We're active listeners and questioners, skilled at breaking down complex problems and making sense of them. We're unafraid to challenge the past and present, and are driven in the pursuit of truth and continuous improvement
- Transparency - Openness is at the core of everything we do. We disrupt knowledge silos and seek feedback early and often. We take pride in contributing our work to the open-source community and owning our role as educators
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Greg Neiheisel
(Co-founder)Software Engineer for Great American Insurance from 2011 to 2013. Experience as Founder and CTO of USERcycle.
Tim Brunk
(Co-founder)Co-founder of Cladwell since 2012 and of Ocean Accelerator since 2014. Founder of MetaRouter since 2018.
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