Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join Customer.io as a Senior Product Designer and contribute to a team building tools for administration and collaboration across the platform. You will research and design solutions, prioritize projects, build customer empathy, and measure the success of new features. This role involves shaping the design team's culture and processes, providing feedback, and ensuring high quality standards. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in software product design, a strong understanding of technical constraints, and excellent communication skills. Customer.io offers a remote-first work environment, competitive salary, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• You’re an experienced product designer with 3+ years of experience in a software development setting
• You have prior success working on complex software products and an ability to learn and understand detailed technical constraints
• You are comfortable approaching problems from first principles, repeatedly asking “why?” and using that insight to explore unique, innovative solutions to complex problems
• Your design executions display a high level of craft, and you have a strong ability to communicate the thinking behind your designs to partners and stakeholders
• You have a growth mindset and a willingness to receive and provide feedback, and learn from mistakes
• You thrive with autonomy and ownership, and are comfortable navigating ambiguity
• You are comfortable communicating asynchronously, including across time zones
• You have a passion for making complex functionality more approachable
• You have experience and passion for taking complex concepts and making them more understandable in you designs

Responsibilities

• Develop an understanding and compassion for customers through research
• Create design proposals for new features and collaborate with engineers on prototypes
• Participate in the product team's prioritization of work, advocating for the customer experience
• Help shape the design team's culture and design processes, including sharing thoughtful 1:1 feedback with peers

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in a B2B SaaS setting, preferably with experience with collaboration and administration use cases
• Able to commit to at least 3 hrs of working overlap with the Americas (GMT-8 to GMT-5 timezone)
• Familiarity designing within the constraints of a design system and how interfaces are built from components
• Experience conducting your own user research to gather customer insights and incorporate it into your design decision-making
• Experience with tools like Mixpanel, Amplitude, or Fullstory
• Proficiency with Figma

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO - we encourage at least 20 vacation days (in addition to holidays and sick days) so that you can unwind, unplug, and recharge
• 16 weeks paid parental leave (including adoption and foster care)
• 100% paid insurance premiums for you and your dependents
• 401k retirement matching - up to 5% dollar-for-dollar match to retirement contributions
• $1,500 annual healthy lifestyle budget (for gym memberships, classes, fitness equipment)
• $250/monthly Remote Work Stipend to be used for home internet, cell phone, and other miscellaneous remote work costs
• $300/month co-working space rental reimbursement
• $2,000/yearly professional education budget for conferences, courses, workshops, books, etc
• $1,500 home office budget to make sure your working space is ergonomic and just what you need to do your best work!
• One month sabbatical after five years at Customer.io
• We also have opportunities to meet in person with your peers throughout the year