Product Designer, MindsDB

• We would like to add a technically-minded Product Designer to our Product Team, with a minimum of 5 years product design experience and with at least 2 years designing for developer facing products
• Your portfolio will demonstrate a track record for distilling complexity into simple, elegant solutions
• 5 years product design experience with at least 2 years designing for a developer facing product (developer tools or/and infrastructure platforms)
• Experience working with distributed or remote teams
• Proficient in Figma

Desirable

• At MindsDB, you will work cross-functionally with experts in software engineering, ML, marketing, our partners and more, in a truly exciting product category. You should be someone who appreciates the merits of an elegant design system while being competent at conducting user research
• Our mission is to become the go-to platform for developers building AI-integrated applications. Therefore, it’s important to us that you approach ambiguous problems as an opportunity for learning; your portfolio should show how you’ve adapted your design process to achieve the mutual objectives of a business and its user, in a frenetic paced, start-up environment
• Working closely with the product and engineering team to identify, plan, scope, and execute interfaces for developer focused user experiences
• Creating user flows, wireframes, design specs, and other design artefacts to communicate concepts, and explain the design rationale behind your decision-making
• Initiating, planning and conducting user research
• Translating feature or enhancement intuitions – and user based actionable insights – into early prototypes, and in turn, rapidly iterating based on continuous feedback from our users; we use Figma for no-code prototypes and React in our product
• Applying strong written communication skills to formulate pre-reads to steer alignment and better asynchronous communication
• Co-owning and codifying our pattern library for enabling a smoother engineering hand-off and to facilitate greater consistency
• Providing feedback and guidance to help mentor our junior designer
• Contributing to whiteboarding and other ideation sessions
• Showing your work at internal demo days and contributing to design critiques
• Studying the user experience of direct and in-direct competitor products
• Shepherding your design solution (including the metrics you will measure) through the development process and analyze the results for continuous learning
• Proactively identifying and unblock knowledge sharing and communication challenges to help scale the design organization
• Writing user stories and acceptance criteria for the engineering backlog
• Contributing to the brand visual language and to make changes to our website hosted on Webflow