Product Designer

Summary

Join Databento, a next-generation market data provider, as a Product Designer. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to design and improve the core product and implement growth strategies. This role involves owning end-to-end design across multiple projects, working with stakeholders to prioritize user needs, collaborating with engineers on implementation, defining design systems, and motivating design decisions. Databento offers a competitive compensation package, including health, dental, disability, and life insurance, 401(k) matching, visa sponsorships, and 100% remote work. The company prioritizes product-led growth and values designers who take initiative and can design with ambiguity. As one of the initial design hires, you will significantly influence the product design culture and help set the stage for the product's growth.

Requirements

• A strong UI/UX design portfolio and rigorous work experience (ideally, 2+ years of experience as a UI/UX 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
• Bachelor's degree in a design or technical field, such as HCI, Design or Information Architecture

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design across multiple projects on both core product and growth features
• Work with external and internal stakeholders to identify and prioritize user needs that are ambiguous in scope and translate them into simple and elegant solutions
• Work with engineers to bridge the gap between design and technical implementation and implement a high standard for new feature launches
• Define design systems and steer the evolution of the product's visual language
• Motivate design-oriented decisions and standards firm-wide

Preferred 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

Benefits

• Health, dental, disability, and life insurance benefits
• 401(k) matching
• Visa sponsorships
• 100% remote work
• Paid in their local currency