Product Designer

About Us:

At Vantage, we're passionate about building a cloud cost transparency platform that helps enable everyone – from developers to enterprises – analyze, report, collaborate on and optimize their cloud infrastructure costs.Both our CEO (who is a repeat founder) and CTO are passionate about cloud infrastructure. Having worked together at DigitalOcean, they are taking their combined knowledge to build and scale the Vantage platform.Together we are a small but hard working team of ~10 employees based out of New York City (but embrace the remote-friendly lifestyle).

Our current customers include NASA, Buzzfeed, Barstool Sports, PBS, Planetscale, and Panther.

Vantage is also backed by outstanding top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Calvin French Owen (Co-Founder, Segment), Ben and Moisey Uretsky (Co-Founders, DigitalOcean), Stephanie and Nat Friedman (CEO, Github), Julia Lipton, Brianne Kimmel and others.

What you’ll do:

Work closely with a cross-functional team of product owners, engineers and designers to advance customer and business goals. Your work will focus on:

• Taking broad, conceptual ideas and turning them into something useful and valuable for people using our products

• Collecting and analyzing user behavior data through a variety of channels, such as user testing, semi-formal interviews, observation, surveys, etc.

• Conceptualizing designs from wireframes and visual mockups to prototypes

• Owning the end-to-end design (interaction, visual, etc.) across multiple features and projects

• Thinking holistically about complex systems, empathize with users, and understand goals to create compelling user experiences

• Collaboratively improving our design systems to ensure consistency and high quality experiences across all of our products.

• Influencing design practices and team operations within a (mostly) remote team

• Staying on top of industry trends and emerging technologies

We're looking for someone who has:

• 3+ years of industry experience as a Product, Interaction or UX Designer.

• A portfolio that reflects your strengths in both UX and visual design skills, including multiple shipped projects on which you were the primary designer.

• A product mindset with the ability to understand product goals, identify opportunities, and make decisions based on the impact to people and the company.

• Been part of successful cross-functional and outcome-oriented teams.

• An eye for detail and a high-bar for design quality.

• Experience working in a technical environment.

• Gets just as excited about defining the problem as you do about exploring solutions.

Bonus Points:

• Experience at early stage startup (Seed to Series A)

• Experience at companies building enterprise saas solutions for cloud, FinOps, finance, DevOps or devtools.

• Experience working with HTML and CSS

• Prototyping in code, Figma, Framer or similar