Product Designer, Teams

Job Description

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

We are targeting GMT +1 to GMT -8 in the countries identified with core overlapping hours of 10am-1pm Eastern Standard

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 4 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 designing for developers or other technical audience
• (Bonus) experience using (and/or contributing to) design systems
• (Bonus) experience with design for educational products, digital workplace tools or online communities

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 $119K and $161K USD
• 20 days paid vacation
• Generous parental leave (16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and paid sick days
• Long-term incentive (equity grant)
• Completely free health insurance (no copay, no premiums)
• 401K match
• Health & Wellness stipend
• Employees will never be poked with a sharp stick

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.

If you want to work in our office... You’ll be in our headquarters in New York City, and enjoy additional benefits like free lunches, transportation reimbursement, and all the espresso you can drink.

About Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow is the largest, most trusted online community for technologists to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers. More than 50 million professional and aspiring programmers and technologists visit Stack Overflow each month to help solve coding problems, develop new skills, and find job opportunities.

Our products and tools help developers and technologists in life and at work. These include Stack Overflow for Teams, which focuses on knowledge management and collaboration, and Reach & Relevance, which focuses on developer marketing, community development, and employer branding.

We believe in building inclusive teams where we empower and support people to solve meaningful problems. We have an office in New York (currently closed due to the pandemic) with some of the best amenities and we have people who work remotely all over the world.

Our core values guide our work:

• Keep Community at Our Center: Community is at the heart of everything we do. Nurture healthy communities where everyone is encouraged to learn and give back.
• Adopt a Customer-First Mindset: Authentically serve our customers by empowering, listening and collaborating with our fellow Stackers.
• Be Flexible and Inclusive: We do our best work when a diverse group of people collaborate in an environment of respect and trust. Create space for different voices to be heard, and allow flexibility in how people work.
• Be Transparent: Communicate openly and honestly, both inside and outside the company. Encourage transparency from others by being empathetic, reliable, and acting with integrity.
• Empower People to Deliver Outstanding Results: Give people space to get their job done, support them when they need it, and practice blameless accountability.
• Learn, Share, and Grow: Adopt a Growth Mindset. Be curious and eager to learn. Aim for ethical, sustainable, long-term growth, both personally and in the company

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.