Product Designer - Search

Working hours

Given that we are an all-remote company and hire almost anywhere in the world, we don’t have a location requirement for this role. However, your working hours must overlap with 8am-4pm Eastern Time (EST) for at least 4 hours/week.

Level

This job is an IC4.  You can read more about our job leveling philosophy in our Handbook.

Why this job is exciting

The search product team evolves our core search functionality and creates new search-based features that transform how teams discover, navigate, and work with code. As search is the core offering of the Sourcegraph platform, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with other teams in the graph organization such as Code Insights, Batch Changes, and Code Intel to deliver functionality that ties the platform together and improves our overall offering. 

Our internal developers are customer-focused and understand and respect the power of good design. Our customers love our product and rely on it daily to ship and deploy better software. You’ll be buoyed and challenged by their constant stream of thoughtful feedback and engage with them to help solve their toughest problems.

Within one month, you will…

• You’ll complete your onboarding tasks and get to know your teammates 
• Learn about our business, product, vision, and team, and gain an understanding of how your role fits into Sourcegraph’s broader organization
• Get to know the processes, tools, and systems the design team uses
• Learn and understand our development process for feature releases and inter-team communication
• Begin to learn the features the search team develops and maintains
• Improve the designer onboarding process by contributing Sourcegraph’s handbook

Within three months, you will…

• Learn about our users through our existing research and by conducting new research
• Become familiar with basic Sourcegraph search functionality
• Develop an understanding of how code search solves our customer’s use cases
• Take active involvement in strategic (the “why”), not just tactical (the “how”) realities of the design decisions you make
• Work with the design team to improve its processes, contribute to design critiques, and build team cohesion 

Within six months, you will…

• Become proficient in search functionality
• Learn the functionality of other products in the code-graph organization
• Participate in resolution of a design problem that impacts multiple features in the code-graph organization
• Attend a search product and/or a design team offsite or virtual offsite
• Identify and define a change that will improve the product (including the metrics you will measure), shepherd your solution through the design and development process, analyze the results, and share your progress with the company

Within one year, you will…

• Host a design workshop that engages your peers 
• Identify an area for improvement in one of your prior efforts through research or metrics, advocate for space in the roadmap to improve it, and ship a change that positively impacts the original project’s success criteria
• Proactively identify and unblock knowledge sharing and communication challenges to help scale the design organization
• Educate, mentor, and train team members across the entire company on design methodology and philosophy
• Leverage design thinking to contribute to Sourcegraph’s competitive strategy

About you 

You are a talented and technically minded Product Designer who is also comfortable reading and writing code. This gives you the skills to work with technical teams on technical problems related to code search and navigation. You are strongly aligned with our values and inspired by our mission to make it so that everyone can code.

• Experience designing complex B2B or B2D web applications as demonstrated in a strong portfolio 
• You have experience writing code and, possibly in dynamically typed languages such as Typescript
• The ability to adapt your tools and processes for the velocity of a fast-paced startup where projects have varying requirement levels.
• Ability to create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and other design artifacts to  communicate complex concepts, and explain the reasoning behind your designs.
• Experience with user research and usability testing 

Nice to haves:

• Development experience
• Experience designing for developer tools
• Experience working with distributed or remote teams
• Experience with designing search functionality for eCommerce, B2B, or other complex applications

Compensation

We pay you an above-average salary because we want to hire the best people who are fully focused on helping Sourcegraph succeed, not worried about paying bills. You will have the flexibility to work and live anywhere in the world (unless specified otherwise in the job description), and we’ll never take your location or current/past salary information into account when determining your compensation.  As an open and transparent company that values equitable and competitive compensation for everyone, our compensation ranges are visible to every single Sourcegraph Teammate. To determine your salary, we use a number of market and data-driven salary sources and target the high-end of the range, ensuring that we’re always paying above market regardless of where you live in the world.  

The target compensation for this role is $175,000 USD base.

In addition to our cash compensation, we offer equity (because when we succeed as a company, we want you to succeed, too) and generous perks & benefits.

Interview process

Below is the interview process you can expect for this role (you can read more about the types of interviews in our Handbook). It may look like a lot of steps, but rest assured that we move quickly and the steps are designed to help you get the information needed to determine if we’re the right fit for you… Interviewing is a two-way street, after all!

• Introduction Stage - we have initial conversations to get to know you better…
• [Time] Recruiter Screen
• [Time] Hiring Manager Screen
• [60m] Resume Deep Dive
• Team Interview Stage - we then delve into your experience in more depth and introduce you to members of the team…
• [60m] Portfolio Review
• [90m] Design Exercise
• Final Interview Stage - we move you to our final round, where you meet cross-functional partners and gain a better understanding of our business and values holistically…
• [30m] Values Interview
• [Time] Leadership Interview
• We check references & make you an offer!

And that’s it! Please note - you are welcome to request additional conversations with anyone you would like to meet, but didn’t get to meet during the interview process.