Product Designer
At Tidelift, our mission is making open source software work better—for everyone.
We see a world where open source creators can get paid for doing work they love, and software development teams get software they can depend on. We’re already supporting many of the most important projects in open source, and adding more all the time.
We're still small, but well-funded and growing. You will play a large role in tackling challenging problems and helping build the company, while learning alongside our experienced team.
A trained designer. We are looking for a breadth of product design experience including formal design principles and typography, experience applying a brand identity and design system, and the ability to synthesize information to better inform design decisions.
You should have experience working closely with engineering and product teams to scope a feature, run a design process to explore solutions including testing solutions with users, and walkthrough features with engineering to make choices based on user goals and cost to build. Collaborating with engineering is not a hand-wavy thing here — we rely on each other to make the best decisions we can quickly, in service of the user needs.
User-centered design. We use lean research methods to explore product ideas, as well as run usability testing. You should be comfortable with, or at least curious about, these practices and how they feed into your daily work as a designer. Being comfortable with ambiguity, and leveraging research/rapid prototyping that put the user first are important characteristics in this role.
Focused on interactive design. We are looking for deep design experience translating user goals into comprehensive feature flows. Our ideal candidate would have the ability to craft clean CSS and HTML as their work product. We run a Vue-based design system, and it would be helpful if you could learn to make pull requests to update UI elements. You would also be delivering prototypes and user stories as a work product.
A creative partner. You will be a creative partner who helps us think through our product strategy and associated communications, so you should be comfortable collaborating with others with different backgrounds, job descriptions, and skill sets including product, engineering, sales, and marketing.
Read more about our values, benefits, and career growth below. We'd love to hear from you!
