About Design at CircleCI
Design at CircleCI is a multi-disciplinary team that drives a consistent voice and experience through our entire customer and partner network. The team is made up of product designers, visual designers and user researchers who work hand in hand with marketing, product management and engineering to create CircleCI’s industry leading product. If you want a chance to work on a unified brand, marketing, and product vision the CircleCI design team is the right place for you.
Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally with product, marketing, engineering and other business partners to arrive at the best possible designs
- Contribute to overall strategy and decision-making about product direction, specifically for growth initiatives
- Propose growth experiments based on usage feedback and iterate on results
- Collaborate with user research to understand our users’ challenges and workflow
- Work cross-functionally with our product and engineering teams to represent design, and give feedback in planning and product channels.
- Create interactive design prototypes to share and validate designs both internally and externally
- Use data analytics, user testing and research to inform and validate design decisions and focus on constant improvement
- Help plan and participate in user research studies to understand and validate product concepts
- Deliver polished comps and flows and assets
- Help guide, improve, and implement our design process.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of design experience (previous SaaS, enterprise or Developer tool work a huge plus.)
- Ability to think through a user problems, propose solutions, mock them up in detail, and work with engineers to build them.
- Can reduce complex problems down to the right balance of flexibility, power, and ease of use
- You understand the technical limitations and liberties behind your decisions and have the chops to communicate your ideas to our engineers. That said, you can communicate design effectively, regardless of the audience.
- You look for opportunities to solve problems for people in unusual and innovative ways and enjoy working with engineers to ship small, quick experiments to validate your ideas and opinions.
- Experience designing for mobile and web
- Experience doing user research and running usability tests
- A portfolio of work that shows complex and creative UX solutions, great visual design and a solid grasp of information architecture.
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JS (advanced knowledge a big plus) with a desire/willingness to code.
- Experience with Lean UX methodologies