As a product designer at Dagster Labs youโll help shape the future of Dagster, creating high-quality UIs, interactions and prototypes. We care deeply about design โ this means designers have influence over how things work and look across our usersโ end-to-end journey.
Youโll work alongside a supportive team of design peers, engineers, and product leaders with high standards for execution. Designers at Dagster Labs are empowered to engage directly with Dagsterโs community of open-source users (you can join our community Slack here to check it out for yourself). We build in public and ship weekly: this allows us to iterate quickly and constantly seek feedback from our users and community. Weโre a small team of generalists with an ambitious mission and thereโs no shortage of interesting design challenges across Dagster Core and Dagster+.
What youโll do
As a product designer at Dagster Labs you will:
- Lead end-to-end design projects, working closely with stakeholders to ship high quality features quickly
- Produce design artifacts (UI explorations, prototypes, user flows) that guide development efforts to address real user and business needs
- Seek out new feature opportunities and improvements that make Dagster a joy to use
- Identify and fix problems and gaps that you discover
- Engage with the Dagster open-source community, Dagster+ customers, and customer support teams, to understand user needs and validate designs
- Shape the future direction of Dagster Core and Dagster+. This includes UI, documentation, website, and APIs
- Collaborate with front-end and design team peers to evolve our design system and brand
This is a full-time, competitively paid position with benefits. We have offices across the U.S. and flexible working hours. Every employee is provided a remote work stipend to cover the cost of home office equipment and anything else that makes your remote work location comfortable, productive, or successful. And if youโd rather not work from home, weโll cover the cost of a coworking or office space if youโre fully remote.
Qualifications
If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.
- At least 5 years of experience designing complex enterprise applications with a portfolio demonstrating this experience
- Have mastered design tools like Figma to prototype and communicate ideas
- Excellent visual, UI, and interaction skills
- Experience using developer tools like Git, VSCode, React, Vercel
- Experience running lightweight qualitative user research sessions
- Strong written and oral communication skills
Bonus
- Youโve designed tools for developers or data practitioners in the past
You belong here
We are committed to building an inclusive team and an open source community where no one feels out of place. We know that teams with diverse backgrounds state their assumptions more explicitly, think more rigorously, and build better software. Plus it's more fun and interesting to work with a wide variety of perspectives.You should apply to work at Dagster Labs if you want to work in, and help to build and strengthen, a high-performing software development environment where people of all backgrounds are welcome.
New to Data? No problem. We believe that diverse experiences and backgrounds are an asset, enabling us to bring fresh perspectives to the problem space. Some of us are steeped in the data domain; some of us are not. It is a way of structurally having a โbeginnerโs mindsetโ, examining problems from first principles. Meanwhile, the experience on the team keeps us grounded in the reality of the current state of the ecosystem and the practical problems on the ground.
The estimated annual cash salary for this role is $150,000 - $200,000.
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