Senior Product Designer / QA – Stack Overflow

Senior Product Designer, QA 
(Work Remotely in the US or Europe)

 Stack Overflow

Job Description:

Stack Overflow exists to help developers: whether we’re helping them get answers to their questions or find a new job, we build products that millions of developers use. As a designer at Stack Overflow, you’ll create and build products that directly impact the work and the lives of those developers.

You’ll be working alongside a small product team on our public Q&A sites. This role focuses on our main Q&A experience, but also has a particular focus on making Stack Overflow more welcoming and inclusive to people new to the site, new to programming in general, and/or people who are more likely to feel unwelcome on our site (including people from groups underrepresented in tech). This is a great opportunity to dig into design for a product that impacts millions of people every month. And as a member of the product design team, you’ll also spend lots of time working with the rest of us, whether that’s contributing to our design system, participating in critique, or just hanging out with us in Slack. We’re a team that rejects competition between designers and instead embraces collaboration. We’re always looking for ways to teach and help each other.

We’re looking for a generalist – someone who has the skills to do everything from research to early-stage design explorations to high-fidelity prototypes and mockups and maybe even a bit of front-end development. But most importantly, we’re looking for someone who’s excited to join our small team, to dig into big projects, and to learn and grow with us.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with the product manager and researcher to explore and define the team’s product strategy
• Work within our fast-moving product development process in collaboration with the rest of the product team
• Identify when user research and experience design methods are necessary, and conduct or help conduct that discovery work
• Design high-quality visuals, interactions, workflows, and copy that are user-centered and consistent with our design language
• Use your design work appropriately in context with the overall product and business goals to impact and drive product strategy
• Write clean and maintainable front-end code, if that’s one of your competencies
• Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive team environment where design ideas and feedback are shared openly and with the best intentions

Job Requirements:

• At least 6 years of product design experienceproduct design 
• Experience with designing for online communities
• Evidence of thoughtful, thorough experience design work
• Evidence of internally consistent and high-quality visual designs
• Evidence of participation in, usage of, or execution of user research
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• A desire to or experience with working in a distributed environment (where all team members are remote)
• High levels of organization and ability to work independently
• (Optional) Experience with or interest in learning basic front-end development (HTML, CSS, some Javascript)
• (Bonus) experience with designing for developers or other technical audiences
• (Bonus) experience using (and/or contributing to) design systems

Also note:

• If this job interests you but you aren’t certain if you meet all of the requirements, please apply anyway!
• We don’t consider applications without cover letters – please make sure to include yours, and make sure to talk specifically about why you want to work here at Stack Overflow, on this specific team! We promise – we read every single one.

Benefits:

• Flexible hours
• 20 days paid vacation + holidays
• Completely free health insurance – no copay, no premiums (US residents)
• Generous parental leave (10-16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and unlimited sick days
• Employees will never be poked with a sharp stick

If you want to work remotely…. We’ll help you set up a great home office, with an ergonomic chair, standing desk, and any other equipment you need to do your job.

If you want to work in our office…You’ll get your own private office in our headquarters in New York City, and enjoy additional benefits like free lunch every day prepared by our own in-house chefs, transportation reimbursement, and all the espresso you can drink.

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