Senior Product Designer, Teams

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.

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Stack Overflow exists to serve developers. Whether we’re helping them get answers to their questions on the public site, or within private teams, or develop new skills, we build products that millions of developers use. As a designer at Stack Overflow, you’ll create and build products that directly impact the work and the lives of those developers.

In this particular role, you’ll be working alongside a team dedicated to the Stack Overflow for Teams product. As a senior designer on this team, you’ll join a cross-functional team of developers, designers, product managers, and product researchers working on our B2B SaaS knowledge sharing and collaboration platform. Stack Overflow for Teams gives organizations a private, secure home for their team’s questions and answers, as well as a robust set of tools to manage their community. Our customers include Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg, and many other Fortune 500 names.

We’re constantly exploring new features, optimizing in-product experience for both new and existing users and more recently added a Freemium tier that gave our self-serve product led transformation a huge boost. This is a great opportunity to work on a product with a wide variety of features and complex problems with a team that’s excited to solve them.

And as a member of the product design team, you’ll also spend time working with other designers, whether that’s contributing 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.

We’re looking for an experienced product designer - someone who has done everything from feature discovery to  early-stage design explorations, high-fidelity prototypes and mockups to front-end development, for SaaS products. But most importantly, we’re looking for someone who’s excited to join our team, to dig into big projects, and to learn and grow with us.

Skills & Requirements

What you’ll do:

• Follow our fast-moving product development process in close collaboration with your product team consisting of engineers, researchers, product managers, and other designers
• Identify when user research and experience design methods are necessary, and conduct or collaborate on that discovery work
• Partner closely with our research team, drawing insights from their work and turning those into tangible solutions
• Design high-quality visuals, interactions, workflows, and copy that are user-centered and consistent with our design language
• Use your design work appropriately in context with the overall product and business goals to impact and drive product strategy
• Work with our world-class product managers and engineers to deliver your product vision, including writing design specs and reviewing work before it is shipped to millions of users
• Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive team environment where design ideas and feedback are shared openly and with the best intentions

What we need to see:

• At least 5 years of design experience, largely on SaaS products. 
• Evidence of thoughtful, thorough product design work
• A deep curiosity and ability to consider product strategy and vision. You don’t just care about how a feature should look, but you’re interested in why we’re designing it in the first place
• Experience in conducting, digesting, and applying user research
• Experience with basic front-end development (HTML, CSS)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• High levels of organization and ability to work independently
• (Required) Experience working on B2B SaaS products
• (Bonus) Experience with community based platforms
• (Bonus) experience with designing for developers or other technical audience
• (Bonus) experience using (and/or contributing to) design systems

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!

All- Inclusive Benefits

(Remote - North America, South America, Europe, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, UK, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Spain, Austria, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Portugal, Netherlands, Switzerland)

What You’ll Get in Return: 

• Competitive Base Salary between 140k-190k
• Generous paid vacation
• 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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