Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer

As a Product Designer, you will craft successful, relevant products that help thousands of developers deliver better applications to their users, faster.

The Product Design Role

Product designers at CircleCI are curious, ask questions, dig deep into problems, and love to learn new things. We are strong problem solvers who understand sophisticated technical concepts and how they relate to user needs. We think holistically and can communicate structure, relationships and flow to our users and colleagues. We are craftspeople who understand the fundamentals of design and continually strive to hone that craft. We seek every opportunity to engage with customers and apply design to address real user problems. Our designers are insightful and collaborative and are able to work well with people from different backgrounds. We cultivate understanding and further diverse opinions. We are storytellers and deep listeners. We work iteratively and use feedback to produce the best possible designs for our customers.

We engage in

• opportunity mapping
• participatory discussions
• and co-design

We make design decisions

• using qualitative research
• quantitative data
• and strong critical thinking

The Senior Role

We look to our senior designers to understand the domain and lead the design function for their product areas, think holistically about user journeys across the product, outline design processes, and clarify expectations. They understand their team’s domain and share their knowledge frequently with teammates. They mentor junior members of the design team, deliver praise and constructive feedback to teammates and business partners, and actively seek feedback on their own performance.

Senior product designers build positive relationships and help teammates overcome obstacles, contributing to the healthy functioning of the broader organization.

Crafting Developer Experience

A successful designer on our developer experiences teams will have previous experience in developer tools, or an interest in the technical space and the curiosity to dig deep and learn more. In this role, they will have the chance to create designs for developer interfaces (such as VSCode or Yaml files for configuration) in addition to our web application.

Someone coming into this role should have experience using data analytics and user research to validate design decisions. This is a key role with the opportunity to work on challenging problems and contribute holistically to improving the experience of our customers.

This designer will work with team members whose location spans from the United States/Canada (P.S.T.) to the European Union (C.E.T.) timezones. Because of this, candidates will need to be available to work during standard Eastern Timezone working hours, in order to successfully collaborate with their teams.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About CircleCI

CircleCI is the world’s largest shared continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, and the hub where code moves from idea to delivery. As one of the most-used DevOps tools - processing more than 1 million builds a day - CircleCI has unique access to data on how engineering teams work, and how their code runs. Companies like Spotify, Coinbase, and BuzzFeed use us to improve engineering team productivity, release better products, and get to market faster.

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a global, remote workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Base10, Greenspring Associates, Eleven Prime, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Baseline Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Owl Rock Capital, Next Equity Partners, Heavybit and Harrison Metal Capital.

CircleCI is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.