Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

(United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, UK, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Spain, Austria, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Portugal, Netherlands, Switzerland)

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About Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow empowers the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. More than 100 million people visit Stack Overflow every month, making it one of the most-visited websites in the world. 

Best known for its public platform, Stack Overflow helps people find the answers they need, when they need them. That includes serving up relevant technologies to the community through Stack Overflow Advertising, providing direct access to technology-specific subject matter experts with Collectives™, sharing more about companies as future employers, and helping teams scale with its market-leading knowledge sharing and collaboration platform, Stack Overflow for Teams.

At Stack Overflow, our mission is to serve developers by building products that make millions of developers’ lives better every day. As a designer at Stack Overflow, you’ll create and build products that directly impact the work and the lives of those developers.

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our team which focuses on building tools for developers, companies, and the community to support their growth and development. We are looking for someone to lead building and growing our design system, Stacks. Our system enables designers and developers to quickly design, build, and maintain high quality, consistent user experiences across our sites. This person should be a self sufficient systems thinker and highly motivated. We are looking for an individual to own the design system—someone who can build relationships across the company to understand the needs of teams and users, can build a roadmap, manage timelines, and set expectations. For the foreseeable future, this person will spend roughly 75% of their time building and 25% of their time owning the design system project and its direction.

This person will be reporting into a design team, but working closely with a team of engineers dedicated to building and maintaining our design system. They’ll also be spending time with all our other product designers, whether that’s helping them contribute to our design system, participating in critique, or just hanging out with us in Slack. We’re a team that rejects competition between designers and instead embraces collaboration and is always looking for ways to teach and help each other. 

Skills & Requirements

What you’ll do:

• Foster a strong working relationship between Design, Engineering, Community Managers, and Product with the goal to educate and evangelize Stacks across the business.
• Audit, identify gaps, and create consistent and well-defined elements and components 
• Build and maintain a clear, centralized documentation of principles, components, and usage guidance
• Provide regular communication regarding design system decisions, plans, and goals throughout the company
• Define and deliver a compelling roadmap and goals based on team needs, user needs, and strategic opportunities for our design system.
• Scope work with an understanding of the time and effort involved then allocate said work between yourself and Stacks engineers.
• Ensure our design system meets accessibility compliance guidelines and standards.
• Partner with user researchers to gather consumer data, validate concepts, test prototypes & apply findings into you designs
• Solicit, synthesize, and incorporate feedback from brand, design, and engineers
• Coordinating releases and consumption with product organizations 

What we need to see:

• 5+ years of professional design experience
• 3+ years of experience creating and maintaining a design system
• Applied experience of thoughtful, thorough design work in a responsive web setting
• Experience conducting accessibility evaluations of components, excellent knowledge of accessibility guidelines, and a track record of advocating for accessibility
• Experience in conducting, digesting, and applying user research
• Experience with front-end development (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• High proficiency with Figma
• High levels of organization and ability to work independently
• (Desired) Experience working on a product in a two-sided marketplace
• (Bonus) Experience with designing for developers or other technical audience

Also note:

• We’re a distributed, remote team and you’ll be part of a work culture that emphasizes online & asynchronous communication with minimal meetings and ceremonies
• We’re generally very flexible on working hours, though we do ask everyone on the team to maintain an overlap with (at least) 10AM - 1PM US Eastern time
• We don’t consider applications without cover letters - please make sure to include yours and talk about why you want to work here!

Some of what you’ll get in return:

• Competitive Base Salary between $140K and $190K USD 
• Generous parental leave (16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and unlimited sick days
• Equity for all employees at all level
• Industry-leading health benefits that are applicable per country of residence for all our full-time employees
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Health & wellness stipend
• Home Internet stipend
• Professional allocation for your growth and development
• Company-paid access to Calm, Bravely, LinkedIn Learning, and Overdrive

If your role is not located in one of our offices…. We’ll reimburse you up to $2,000 to set up a great home office. And, you will receive an additional $400 allowance for your home office set up on each anniversary date.

Work Environment:

We’re a remote-friendly team. Whether you work remotely or work in one of our offices,  you’ll be part of a team culture that emphasizes online communication (Slack, GitHub, Hangouts, Zoom, Stack Overflow for Teams).

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records

Diverse teams build better products.

Legally, we need you to know this:

Stack Exchange, Inc. does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. We support workplace diversity

But we want to add this:

We strongly believe that diversity of experience contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company and better products. We are working hard to increase the diversity of our team wherever we can and we actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of it.

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