Netlify · 5 hours ago
Senior Product Designer & Researcher
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
CA$157K/yr - CA$213K/yrNetlify is the most popular way to build, deploy, and scale modern web applications, empowering everyone from fast moving solo developers to enterprise teams. The Senior Product Designer & Researcher will lead design efforts in collaboration with cross-functional teams to enhance the developer experience and contribute to the design system while managing usability research studies.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper PlatformDeveloper ToolsWeb DevelopmentWeb Hosting
Responsibilities
Use your prior experience to lead projects toward user and business solutions and drive the design work and team from research to full-realized features and flows
Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and other partners to represent the UX team, build bridges, facilitate design or research kickoffs and discussions, and drive the user experience forward
Contribute to our design system and processes, including accessibility practices
Support your team with thoughtful feedback and shape how we tell customer experience stories at Netlify
Manage participant recruiting, participant followups, and incentives disbursement for all studies
Effectively communicate findings and recommendations to product teams and stakeholders that surface recommendations and implications
Work with product stakeholders to test business requirements using heuristic/qualitative methods, in a rapid way
Establish strong async communication rhythms with your peers and leaders, practicing transparency and visibility in your progress against areas of focus
Contribute to our expanding research practice and run usability tests in collaboration with research partners
Organize around multiple work streams, including prioritizing, iterating, and timeboxing work as needed
Create structure where there is ambiguity, can quickly adapt to organizational change and workstream shifts, and can help others navigate staffing and priority changes
Qualification
Required
A history of leading design efforts at a strategic level for technical products, platforms, or systems
Proficiency at iterating & circulating concepts with peers and building toward high-confidence proposals, effectively prototyping and storytelling at various fidelities throughout the process
A breadth of experience in the iterative product development process, from problem definition, information architecture, and UX flows to interaction and UI design
A high level of comfort in working with developers in the presentation layer (for example, HTML, CSS) and is well-versed in using tools such as Figma and GitHub
Rigor for accessibility, consistency, and high standard of quality
Consistent autonomy and a drive to thrive in a cross-disciplinary and collaborative environment with product and engineering teams, where colleagues teach and learn from one another
Growth mindset: curious and open to new technologies, methodologies, and best practices
Experience in research operations including managing a participant database and setting up studies
Ownership in scoping, planning, and executing usability research studies, with minimal support and guidance
Preferred
other experience such as iconography, branding, front-end engineering, or content design
Benefits
Robust benefits
Participation in Netlify’s equity plan
Company
Netlify
Netlify is the AI-native web development platform where agents and developers build together.
Founded in 2014
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$212.1MKey Investors
Bessemer Venture PartnersEQT VenturesKleiner Perkins
2021-11-17Series D· $105M
2020-03-04Series C· $63M
2018-10-09Series B· $30M
Leadership Team
Mathias Biilmann Christensen
CEO
Recent News
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