Senior Product Designer, Neon

• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in creating and implementing UX/UI design
• A strong portfolio that shows how you tackle complex user problems, research and validate your assumptions and solutions and showcase the impact of your work
• Experience with A/B testing or designing in analytical/data-driven contexts
• Experienced with design tools (like Figma, Sketch, Invision, AdobeSuit, etc.)
• Practical familiarity with the ecosystem of modern dev tools
• Technical aptitude:
• Worked closely with engineers
• Understand software development life cycles and development flow with git
• Used or co-created a CLI
• Demonstrated ability to produce low-fidelity sketches on tight schedules
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize real user feedback into designs
• Demonstrated ability to create click-through prototypes to test and validate working hypotheses with users
• Demonstrated knowledge of responsive design techniques for different form factors (desktop vs. mobile)
• Solid understanding of user-centered design process and strong knowledge of user experience principles
• Experience applying lean UX principles with a focus on collaboration with extended team members
• Experience iterating to improve designs based on feedback from peer reviews, demonstrations to stakeholders, and usability evaluation activities such as usability testing
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including techniques to persuade and negotiate and the ability to articulate alternative approaches
• You’re not afraid of getting technical: No prior developer tools experience is required, but you are excited to learn about databases, developer workflows, and application development

Desirable

• We are looking for a Senior-level Product Designer (Growth) who wants to focus on creating a friction-free developer experience. You will be responsible for designing a simple way for developers to use Postgres in their workflow
• Design industry-leading experiences that reduce friction for new and existing users
• Contribute to work across the entire team, including activation, conversion, and retention experiences
• Champion design within Growth (and growth in the design team). Apply design principles to growth initiatives and make progress toward larger product goals within the user experiences
• Work with product managers, engineering, and other partners to define the wider Growth strategy
• Improve craft quality for all design specializations in Neon
• Bring the perspective and needs of Growth design to larger design strategic projects
• Contribute to initiatives outside growth design that improve overall design quality and capabilities
• Ensure all aspects of our product are easy to use and delightful
• Participate in user research to guide product design decisions (contextual inquiry, usability testing, competitive analysis, etc.)