Senior Product Designer - Design Systems

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Prague
Hybrid
Internship
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • Productivity • Software • Analytics • Business Intelligence
Customer-centric product management platform that helps organizations get the right products to market, faster.
The Role

About the role

At Productboard, we fundamentally believe that the world's best products are created by product makers who possess an exceptionally deep understanding of their customers' needs. Whether they are Product Managers, Designers, or Engineers, the brightest minds behind the most successful and beloved products are those who truly embody their customers.

We're seeking a Product Designer to lead our Design System efforts and become a member of our Design team. A team of seasoned experience-builders, we know that the happier our team and company, the better our work will be. Ours is a genuine, collaborative team atmosphere, where you can self-realize, build core skills, and move up the design career ladder, whether you’re into management or want to stick with the IC track.

You will play a key role in driving both strategy and execution of our Design System to support Design and Engineering teams. You’ll advocate to instill design values not inly into products, but also to the company culture. If that sounds interesting, we want to hear for you!

Your responsibilities

  • Work alongside Engineering to identify impactful work and maintain parity between Figma component libraries and production code
  • Make sure the design system’s priorities are set straight, drive the design system’s strategy and tactics
  • Design, prototype, and document interaction patterns and UI components
  • Work with designers and engineers to evolve UX and UI patterns, giving and receiving feedback in design critiques
  • Pair-design with designers from different product teams to see how you can improve the foundations of their work and to make sure the design system support their needs
  • Collaborate with our UX writer to uphold our product’s voice
  • Organize robust Figma libraries and keep them neat and usable even by more junior designers
  • Evolve the contribution process and advocate for the adoption and advancement of the design system itself

About you

  • You have built design systems before, or have an informed opinion on how to plan and execute on their expansion and improvement
  • You’ve designed a lot of UIs, have a deep knowledge of interaction patterns, and can deliver high-quality work
  • You’re a systemic thinker who can turn complex design problems into intuitive user experiences
  • You can identify patterns and standardize them for different use cases
  • You have solid engineering acumen necessary for successful collaboration with the engineering team. An understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with experience working alongside front-end and back-end teams.
  • You can project manage and organize work that needs to be done but you and other cross functional partners
  • You poses excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present findings clearly to diverse audiences.
  • You’re proactive, curious, and independent, with a passion for solving problems, learning, advancing your craft, and driving impact.
  • You seek feedback to grow and give feedback candidly and with empathy.

Bonus points for…

  • Familiarity with accessibility standards that apply to digital products
  • Experience in a B2B SaaS organization with a mature product design practice

Don’t tick off every single bullet? Don’t worry, this is our dream list. If you’ve got potential, we’ll help you grow.

 Some more perks to working with us

💰 Stock options

🏝 5 weeks of vacay and sick days

💻 A powerful MacBook

📚 Budget for courses, books, and conferences

❤️ A volunteer day to help causes close to your heart

💚 A Headspace account and other mindfulness & mental health programs

🍹 Team events, happy hours, off-sites, and retreats

🧒🏻 Parental benefits… there are more, but the list is getting long.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and champion equity. It is our aim to help people from all backgrounds, cultures, and groups realize their full potential at Productboard. We do not tolerate any discrimination or harassment based upon gender identity, race, color, religion, age, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other biascovered by appropriate law. All aspects of employment, including hiring, training, promotion, and terminations, are based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are committed to an inclusive hiring process and provide all candidates with equal opportunity to demonstrate their abilities. Togetherness is one of our core values, and our Diversity Council helps to ensure that we uphold the values of authenticity, humanity, and diversity to create an environment where every person matters. We are committed to leading by example to drive societal change.

The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
246 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Productboard is a customer-centric product management platform that helps organizations get the right products to market, faster. Over 6,000 companies, including Microsoft, Zoom, 1-800-Contacts, and UiPath, use Productboard to understand what users need, prioritize what to build next, and rally everyone around their roadmap. With offices in San Francisco, Prague, and Vancouver, Productboard is backed by leading investors like Dragoneer Investment Group, Tiger Global Management, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Credo Ventures. Learn more at productboard.com.

Why Work With Us

We believe that truly great products are not created by individual geniuses but by a great group of people that leverages everyone’s curiosity and creativity. That is why our mission at Productboard is to **make products that matter, together**. We are a global company with a stimulating, multicultural environment.

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