Senior Product Designer, Postman
Flows
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
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
- You love hard UX problems. You get obsessed with understanding complex user needs in order to create simple, intuitive user experiences. You have strong UX research and prototyping skills
- Thrive in a scrappy environment, always eager to determine the simplest way to test the next feature. You don’t mind interrupts and can pull together quick demos when needed
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills. You’ll be working closely with our entire engineering team, synchronously and asynchronously
What the job involves
- With Postman Flows, our vision is to transform how both developers and non-developers interact with software development through a beautiful visual canvas in a collaborative space
- Our goal is for users to begin building software within minutes of signing up, enabling anyone to create software solutions, regardless of their previous coding experience
- As we continue to refine Postman Flows with feedback from our community, we’re searching for a visionary, full-stack product designer to elevate our product
- The core responsibilities for this role include conducting user interviews to deepen product understanding and user requirements, collaborating closely with users and the team to tailor user journeys, and addressing complex design challenges to craft a seamless, engaging product experience
- Develop and implement research strategies to create personas and user journeys for a groundbreaking product. This includes foundational research to comprehend the landscape without our solution, and user testing to pinpoint enhancements
- Design a novel product category with intricate information architecture needs
- Collaborate intensively with product and engineering teams. Host design jams, and produce artifacts to foster team cohesion and clarity around design objectives
- Partner with product and engineering to establish team roadmaps, and research agendas that effectively drive our ambitions
- Regularly iterate with users to progressively refine the product
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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Insights
51% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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 HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Abhinav Asthana
(Founder & 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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