Senior Product Designer - Prioritization

At Productboard, we believe in making products that matter – products that not only solve real-world problems but also delight the user. To help us with this mission, we’re looking for a senior product designer to join our newly forming team creating tools for strategic prioritization.

You'll be helping product makers decide what to build next. Product strategy is an exciting, rapidly-evolving field, and so you'll be often solving hard problems that haven't been solved before. Your work will influence prioritization process for thousands of product teams!

During the current pandemic you could also work remotely within the Pacific time zone

On a typical day, you will … 

• Get your hands dirty in all steps of product discovery and delivery
• Work closely with product managers, engineers, data analysts, and customers to bring amazing ideas to life
• Work alongside a team of seasoned designers who are eager to learn from each other
• Drive conception and ideation, user flow design, detailed interaction design, and prototyping
• Create delightful and elegant UI designs
• Spend a good portion of your time conducting user research, analyzing and presenting findings
• Test assumptions with stakeholders and customers to pick the best solution for delivery
• Evaluate shipped work across multiple releases, perform continuous discovery and experimentation, and craft improvements
• Enjoy user feedback and love 💕

About you

• You are a systemic thinker who thinks holistically and can translate complex problems into simple and intuitive user experiences
• You have solid knowledge of UX design processes and methodologies, but are adaptive and always happy to try out new approaches
• You have experience working in a B2B SaaS organization with a mature product and design practice (5+ years)
• You have a good understanding of product management & strategy fundamentals
• You have a strong desire to get to the root of customers’ problems
• You can plan and conduct exploratory user research and usability testing
• You can communicate complex conceptual ideas, design decisions, and research findings succinctly and effectively across different audiences
• You care about the impact of your work and can deliver high-quality design work at pace
• You have an inclusive, transparent collaboration style, and good stakeholder management skills

Bonus points for:

• You collaborated closely with Product Managers on strategy and prioritization of opportunities in one of your previous roles
• Experience working in distributed teams across timezones
• Generally being a nice person, who's fun to work with and be around 🤗

You can look forward to the following benefits:

💰 Competitive compensation, stock options, company 401k 

📚 A budget for your professional development and ongoing learning 

🏝 4 weeks of paid vacation and paid sick days

💛 1 Volunteer Day per year for you to help causes close to your heart

🍲 Lunch delivered to your home

🏋 Company contribution to gym and wellness memberships 

🚗 Commuter benefits

🍹 Team events, such as happy hours, off-sites, and retreats abroad 

❤️ Company contribution and access to best-in-class health benefits and your own Headspace membership

About Productboard 

Productboard is the product management system of choice for everyone from Avast and Microsoft to rising stars like Metromile and Envoy. In early 2020, we closed our $45M Series-B round, backed by VC giants Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Index Ventures. Headquartered in San Francisco, we are a truly international company, with offices in Vancouver and Prague.

• We are backed by top Silicon Valley investors, giving us access to capital, networks, mentors, and markets
• You’ll enjoy an exciting team atmosphere building a new and complex product
• We iterate quickly and decisions are fast. You’ll have a voice in what we do and see the impact of your work
• With modern offices in San Francisco, Vancouver, and Prague, you can expect occasional travel across the Atlantic!

About our culture

At Productboard, values aren’t just something we like to talk about, they’re something we live and breathe. We believe in creating a work environment where: 

• People feel empowered, supported, and included
• Trust and transparency are built into the way we work
• Creativity, curiosity, and continuous improvement are encouraged and nurtured every day 

You can get to know your future colleagues by listening to our People of Productboard podcast, or check out our Instagram profile and People of Productboard FB page for more info about life at Productboard.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and champion of equity. It is our aim to help people from all backgrounds, cultures, and groups realize their full potential at Productboard. 

As such, 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 basis covered 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 us ensure that we uphold the values of authenticity, humanity, and diversity to create an environment where every human being matters. We are committed to leading by example to drive societal change.