Neon is hiring a

Product Designer

Remote

About

Neon is an open-source company on a mission to create a cloud-native database service for every developer.

We are looking for a Senior-level Product Designer (Growth) who wants to focus on creating a friction-free developer experience. You will be responsible for designing a simple way for developers to use Postgres in their workflow.

In this role, you will:

• Design industry-leading experiences that reduce friction for new and existing users.
• Contribute to work across the entire team, including activation, conversion, and retention experiences.
• Champion design within Growth (and growth in the design team). Apply design principles to growth initiatives and make progress toward larger product goals within the user experiences.
• Work with product managers, engineering, and other partners to define the wider Growth strategy.
• Improve craft quality for all design specializations in Neon.
• Bring the perspective and needs of Growth design to larger design strategic projects
• Contribute to initiatives outside growth design that improve overall design quality and capabilities.
• Ensure all aspects of our product are easy to use and delightful
• Participate in user research to guide product design decisions (contextual inquiry, usability testing, competitive analysis, etc.)

We are looking for someone who has

• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in creating and implementing UX/UI design
• A strong portfolio that shows how you tackle complex user problems, research and validate your assumptions and solutions and showcase the impact of your work
• Experience with A/B testing or designing in analytical/data-driven contexts
• Experienced with design tools (like Figma, Sketch, Invision, AdobeSuit, etc.)
• Practical familiarity with the ecosystem of modern dev tools

Technical aptitude:

• Worked closely with engineers
• Understand software development life cycles and development flow with git
• Used or co-created a CLI
• Demonstrated ability to produce low-fidelity sketches on tight schedules
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize real user feedback into designs
• Demonstrated ability to create click-through prototypes to test and validate working hypotheses with users.
• Demonstrated knowledge of responsive design techniques for different form factors (desktop vs. mobile)
• Solid understanding of user-centered design process and strong knowledge of user experience principles.
• Experience applying lean UX principles with a focus on collaboration with extended team members
• Experience iterating to improve designs based on feedback from peer reviews, demonstrations to stakeholders, and usability evaluation activities such as usability testing
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including techniques to persuade and negotiate and the ability to articulate alternative approaches
• You’re not afraid of getting technical: No prior developer tools experience is required, but you are excited to learn about databases, developer workflows, and application development

Additional Bonus

• You are familiar with relational databases and typical developer and operational workflows around them
• You understand developer workflows, you are accustomed to CI/CD, and you have worked with CLIs
• You have experience in PLG-led SaaS - a proven track record of designing successful SaaS-based software products and features from scratch in the startup building dev tools or productivity tools – starting at initial research and discovery, through concept design/iteration, to completed product launch and continued improvements.
• You thrive in a fast-paced work environment that requires independent self-direction with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication

Our Team

• We are a distributed team of 100+ people working from 25+ countries (concentrating around North American and European time zones)
• We are a team built on open-source cultural principles (transparency, contribution, accountability, and proactivity)
• Team with decades of experience building databases and deep knowledge of Postgres internals. We are deeply technical
• We have experienced Postgres committers and hackers on the team (check Heikki, Anastasia, Arseny, Matthias profiles)
• We believe in the efficacy of collaborative open-source
• We aim for a diversity of thoughts and backgrounds
• We are keen to be a fast-moving, flat org and avoid hierarchical structures

Our Offer

• You have an opportunity to be an early employee in the fast-scaling, ambitious team
• You can work 100% remote: we'll handle all formalities to arrange work from your home
• We grant equity (stock options) to all full-time hires
• We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, and much more)
• We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Lisbon)