Product Designer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Define the core product experience for Restate.

• Create the primary Restate user interface, collaborating with engineers from brainstorming to deployment.

• Ensure that execution timelines, retries, queues, state, and failures are easily understandable for engineers.

• Uphold a consistent mental framework across the UI, SDKs, and documentation.

• Effectively visually represent durable execution while maintaining the integrity of the product’s design quality.

• Develop interactive and animated illustrations that showcase Restate's architecture and unique features.

• Utilize motion to convey the system's state, timing, and dynamic aspects.

• Generate content aimed at developers, including blog graphics, social media visuals, and related materials.

• Ensure the external visual language aligns seamlessly with the internal visual language of the product.

• Create scalable design systems for architecture diagrams, code visualizations, and interactive components.

• Work closely with design and engineering teams, refining concepts from initial sketches to final output.

• Collaborate directly with engineers and the broader founding team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Several years of experience designing tools, dashboards, or platforms that involve complex software.

• A portfolio showcasing intricate product designs and visual work that simplifies technical concepts.

• Proficient in information design, covering hierarchy, density, progressive disclosure, and prioritization.

• Capable of visual storytelling for complex technical topics.

• Expertise in brand and campaign design, including layout, typography, illustration, and launch visuals.

• Skills in motion design to effectively convey state, timing, and dynamism.

• Experience with scalable design systems, reusable components, and design patterns.

• Strong visual design instincts and the ability to autonomously set design direction.

• Technical curiosity, with the ability to grasp the product well enough to inform design decisions.

• Writing skills for creating labels, empty states, error messages, and headlines.

• Familiarity with AI and the ability to leverage it to enhance impact and streamline processes.

• Comfort in working with a high degree of autonomy and engaging directly with the founding team.

• Nice-to-have: previous experience with developer tools, infrastructure, or AI products.

• Nice-to-have: experience in building or contributing to a production design system.

• Nice-to-have: ability to prototype in code or possess sufficient HTML and CSS knowledge to convey ideas accurately.

• Must have authorization to work in the country of residence without the need for visa sponsorship, now and in the future.

• Required application materials: resume, cover letter, portfolio, and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Preference for remote work within Europe.

• Consideration for US remote work for exceptional candidates.

• Minimal travel required.

• Opportunities for occasional team offsites.