Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end design process across multiple projects, emphasizing visually compelling core product features and growth initiatives.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify visual design opportunities and translate user needs into striking, elegant UI solutions.
- Work closely with engineers to ensure pixel-perfect design implementation and uphold a high standard for UI quality in feature launches.
- Define and expand design systems to maintain consistency across UI components, branding, and marketing collateral.
- Advocate for UI design excellence by establishing firm-wide standards for visual cohesion and branding consistency.
The product
- Product-led growth with low touch sales. We rely on product features like referrals, team invites and self-signup process instead of a traditional sales pipeline to scale our user base.
- Enterprise-grade, consumer-scale product. (Like Slack or GitHub.) Our competitors adopt a traditional enterprise SaaS strategy, opting to hide their product behind a "request for quote/demo" and employing a high touch onboarding process with big sales teams.
- Targeting a developer-centric user base. (Like AWS, Stripe or Plaid.) We pursue the exponential effect of providing products that enable developers to build an ecosystem of other products and tools.
- Fast iteration. With multiple deployments per day.
- Putting product needs before technical limitations. We have great engineers who will walk over hot coals to actualize difficult product requirements.
What makes being a UI designer at Databento exciting
- You'll impact high-level product decisions as well as shape product design culture. As one of our initial design hires, you will largely influence the product design culture and help set the stage for our product's growth.
- We're focused on product-led growth, not sales-led growth. We resonate with the pain that design is less prioritized in many enterprise products.
- You'll receive timely compensation rewards that reflect your impact. Here, we believe in giving kudos when it's due.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a UI Designer or Product Designer.
- Proficiency with design tools (Figma, Adobe).
- Experience collaborating with engineers and other designers.
- Experience performing user research, user flow mapping and presenting options to stakeholders.
- Understanding of color theory, typography, interaction design, motion principles and visual hierarchy.
- Keen eye for design improvements and visual detail.
- A strong portfolio.
- Bachelor's degree in a design or technical field, such as HCI, Design or Information Architecture.
Desired qualifications
- Experience with designing enterprise web applications or API products (e.g. Stripe, Twilio, Plaid, Segment, Algolia, Agora).
- Industry knowledge in fintech.
- Familiarity with responsive design.
- Familiarity with collecting user metrics and analyzing user sessions (e.g. Amplitude, Heap, Mixpanel).
- Experience with front-end web development (HTML/CSS, JavaScript).
- Exposure to product management at high growth startup.
