TL;DR: This is an opportunity for an experienced product designer to influence our design, product, and culture as an early member of the design team. You'll be a good fit if you enjoy building thoughtful products, have a high bar for visual and interaction design, and love empowering users.
Interested? Message Mark at [email protected] and learn more about our design team here.
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About Observe
At Observe, we're not just building software – we're crafting experiences that transform how people see and interact with their data. Our mission? To break down the walls between data and tooling silos to create a unified, visual and interactive landscape where information comes to life.
We're a team of dedicated innovators tackling a challenging space. If you're passionate about using your design skills to make a real impact, we want you on our team. Together, we'll build products that don't just display data – they illuminate insights and inspire action.
We value building a thoughtful and intentional company culture. We prioritize autonomy, quality, feedback, and bias toward action.
About You
An experienced product designer (5+ years) - You have a design portfolio that showcases your ability to design software that is beautiful, powerful, and intuitive. You've designed complex enterprise software before. Within the observability or data analytics space is a huge plus.
Strong design craft - You have a deep desire to make things look and feel good! A superb attention to detail, a love for making a pleasing experience, and you want to build great products for people to enjoy using.
Independent and product-minded - We're a very small and nimble team. We not only follow the roadmap, but take the initiative when we spot opportunities to improve the product. Not only are you able to take things on your own when needed, you also love to collaborate. Also a low ego and an eagerness to give and receive constructive feedback in a transparent work environment.
Excited about solving complex problems - Observe is tackling a huge data problem. Scale and complexity are the name of the game. You should find the nature of this to be exciting and a great opportunity for strong design to have a hand in shaping these solutions.
What you'll be doing...
- Deliver high-quality, polished, delightful, and easy-to-use designs
- Help the team work more effectively while raising the quality bar for our user experience
- Set design strategy for the projects focusing on customer-based outcomes and the long-term vision of the product
- Help shape the visual direction of both the product and brand
- Design and communicate your vision to the team using mock-ups, documentation, and prototypes
- Execute at every stage of the design lifecycle from ideation to delivery
- Partner effectively across the org in order to help deliver a cohesive experience for our customers
- Contribute to and improve the design system
- Work closely with other designers on large and complex features
- Participate and shape the design team’s culture
- Your designs are always evolving - seek impact over perfection
- Keep abreast of competitor products and trends; perform competitive and comparative analysis to understand existing patterns
This is a local role at our San Mateo offices. We expect at least 3 days a week in-office if you live on the SF peninsula (within 20mi of San Mateo, including SF).
What We Do
Observe was founded by Sutter Hill Ventures in November 2017. Our founding team came from leading Enterprise SaaS and software companies that work with vast quantities of data such as Snowflake, Splunk and Wavefront.
Our founding thesis was that the enterprises are data rich, but information poor. Data is siloed making it difficult to understand what’s going on inside applications and infrastructure. The result is often a poor customer experience and wasted engineering time tracking down incidents. Oh, and it costs a fortune.
Observe discerns why applications and infrastructure are running the way they are from the data they emit. We enable engineers to spend more time coding features and less time investigating incidents. We reduce outages and issues with customer experience. And we leverage an elastic cloud architecture so that you only pay for what you use.
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