Product Designer

Metabase is the easiest way for people to get insights from their data, from tiny startups who get up and running quickly to major corporations with tens of thousands of users. That's why people love us.

We bring data tools with the elegance and simplicity of consumer products to the crufty world of enterprise business intelligence. We provide an opinionated open source starting point for how companies should measure, analyze and share their data, which is used by tens of thousands of companies.

And there's so much more to do! We're expanding the product in many directions, and continuously reevaluating decisions we made in the past in order to improve every flow and detail. We want to do that faster and in more depth, so we're looking for outcome-oriented, seasoned Product Designers to join our core team. At Metabase, design directly drives business success: our customers consistently choose us because of our superior UX — meaning your work will be directly responsible for our growth.

Each product designer is embedded within one of our core product teams, working hand-in-hand a product manager and a small team of engineers to create amazing design solutions for truly tricky technical problems.

Our design culture is unique::
• We focus on solving root problems rather than applying superficial fixes
• We care more about a solution “feeling” right than rigidly adhering to “consistency”
• We ship iteratively and value real-world outcomes over “perfect” process or glossy internal artifacts

Recent projects our designers have tackled include::
• Reimagining the experience for exploring and visualizing data
• Overhauling the UX for writing custom expressions
• Crafting customizable, embeddable components for our SDK

Responsibilities:
• Deliver end-to-end design solutions that are truly elegant, beautiful, fun, and simple.
• Keep complexity from creeping into the product, while giving users ever more power.
• Be a thought partner with your team’s product manager to refine the problem definition, goals, and rough scope of projects.
• Iterate rapidly and broadly in scrappy ways that make abstract ideas tangible and which move conversations forward.
• Deeply internalize the needs and mindset of our users through insights provided by the broader team. UX research skills aren't needed, but welcome.

Profile:
• You think in terms of journeys, not screens.
• Biased toward building things, not slide decks.
• Work out in the open instinctively, out of an eagerness to receive feedback, and to riff and iterate with an experienced, skilled team.
• Thorough and attentive to detail, with a high internal bar for your craft.
• Exceptional ability to communicate design decisions and rationales through speaking and writing.
• Comfortable with asynchronous collaboration, and articulating complex ideas remotely.

Skills and experience:
• Strong intuitions and craft developed over 5+ years of product design experience. Your work will rely on research and analytics, but it will shine because of solid instincts and craftsmanship.
• Experience designing rich, deep web applications/tools
• Technical enough to understand at a high level what's happening inside the engineering black-boxes. (If you don't understand the complexity, how can you simplify it?)

Bonus Qualifications:
• Experience with LLM-based UI prototyping
• Experience with Web development (HTML, CSS, React)
• Technical background or education (CS degree or similar)
• Experience building or using developer tools

If there's anything more you'd like to tell us about you or your interests, use the "additional information" section on the application page. We are real humans looking at applications and we love to hear what you have to say!

We're a global team (50% outside the US), fully distributed (from Thailand to California), who get things done asynchronously, with plenty of uninterrupted time, supporting each other to do the best work of our careers. We offer flexibility (define your own schedule and work from wherever you want), autonomy, and an environment that fosters growth, learning, and development. We're relentlessly user-focused and believe in building long-term value, not short-term hacks. And we raised a $30M Series B to take our approach to the next level for years to come.

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