Product Designer, Ahrefs

Salary not provided

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

SEO tool developer

Be an early applicant

SEO tool developer

101-200 employees

B2BMarketingAnalyticsDigital Media

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

101-200 employees

B2BMarketingAnalyticsDigital Media

Company mission

To deliver up to date breaking industry news coverage and original analysis to marketing professionals.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Experience designing interfaces and workflows for complex software products
Ability to manage projects from idea to launch
Strong visual taste and design skills
Ability to create high-fidelity mockups with great attention to detail
Ability to create prototypes to validate product ideas
Ability to collect and analyze data from a wide variety of sources
Understanding of software architecture and development processes, with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present and articulate product and design decisions effectively

What the job involves

Ahrefs is seeking a strong Product Designer to join our Product team. This is a senior role that goes beyond traditional design responsibilities
In our company, we don't have a conventional product manager role, so our product designers take full ownership of their products, combining design, product management, and leadership skills
You'll work closely with engineers and data scientists, leading projects from initial ideas through release, managing ongoing improvements and support
Contribute to shaping the roadmap for your product, working closely with leadership, Marketing (heavy users of our product), and Sales teams
Conduct research to understand user and business needs. Dive into technical details to identify possibilities and limitations
Sketch and prototype ideas to quickly validate their viability. Design elegant and intuitive interfaces, and drive them all the way to the final product
Lead projects, working with engineers and data scientists as you build, iterate on, and ship your products
Align and collaborate with other product designers to ensure a holistic user experience across the entire platform

Our take

Ahrefs promises its services are all marketing professionals need for their websites to rank higher and get more traffic. Trusted by marketers of Facebook, eBay, Linkedin, Adobe, Uber, and so on, Ahrefs is an all-in-one SEO toolset and provider of free educational materials for marketing professionals.

The Singapore-based start-up updates its index with the freshest backlinks on the internet every 15 minutes, and its crawler process up to 8 billion pages a day, making it the fifth most active crawler on the web.

In 2022, the company invested $60 million of resources into designing and building its own search engine called Yep. In doing so, Ahrefs will be able to run its own search index, rather than relying on APIs on Google or Bing. The start-up’s CEO has long been a critic of Google and the way it handles its data and in 2023, it's released its own book on the building blocks of SEO.