Product Designer

Every developer has a tab open on Stack Overflow.  

We are one of the most popular websites in the world - a community-based space focused on increasing productivity, decreasing cycle times, accelerating time to market, and protecting institutional knowledge. 

Innovation is at the heart of everything we do. We embrace collaboration, transparency, and believe in leading with empathy; creating an environment where every Stacker knows they belong. We embrace that the unique contributions and points of view of all Stackers contribute to our success.

We are a Best Company to Work For, in addition to being recognized for Best Company Leadership, Best Company Happiness, Best Company Perks and Benefits, Best Company Work-Life Balance, Best Company Compensation, and Best Company Outlook.

We are a remote-first company with Hiring HUBs based in the US, Canada, UK, and Germany.

At Stack Overflow, our mission is to serve developers by building products that make millions of developers’ lives better every day. As a product designer at Stack Overflow, you’ll create and build products that directly impact the work and the lives of those developers.

We’re looking for a Product Designer to join our User Experience team. Our team is a small group made of Product Designers and Researchers. In this particular role, you’ll work on our community products, which include Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network. Stack Overflow today has over 17 million question and answer pairs, sees 50 million unique visitors a month, and has been visited over 12 billion times in the past decade. You’ll be designing for one of the largest, most engaging products on the internet. While we’re proud of how far we’ve come, we need your help to make Stack Overflow an attractive community for the next 10 million developers.

You’ll also be spending lots of time working with all our other product designers, 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 and is always looking for ways to teach and help each other. 

We’re looking for a generalist—someone who is familiar with research to early-stage design explorations to high-fidelity mockups and 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.

Skills & Requirements

What you’ll do:

• Follow our fast-moving product development process in close collaboration with your product team consisting of engineers, researchers, product managers, and other designers.
• Identify when user research and experience design methods are necessary, and conduct or collaborate on that discovery work
• Partner closely with our research team, drawing insights from their work, partnering to run your own studies,  and turning findings into tangible solutions
• 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
• Work with our world-class product managers and engineers to deliver your product vision, including writing design specs and reviewing work before it is shipped to millions of users
• Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive team environment where design ideas and feedback are shared openly and with the best intentions

What we need to see:

• 3+ years of product design experience
• Applied experience of thoughtful, thorough design work in a responsive web setting
• A deep curiosity and ability to consider product strategy and vision. You don’t just care about how a feature should look, but you’re interested in why we’re designing it in the first place
• Experience in conducting, digesting, and applying user research
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• High levels of organization and ability to work independently
• (Desired) Experience working on a consumer facing product
• (Bonus) experience with designing for developers or other technical audience
• (Bonus) experience using (and/or contributing to) design systems

What you might work on

• Building new features to help reduce the amount of unanswered questions around the network
• Work alongside data to optimize and modernize search results
• Interact with community and design peers to update design system components

Also note:

• We’re a distributed, remote team and you’ll be part of a work culture that emphasizes online & asynchronous communication with minimal meetings and ceremonies
• We’re generally very flexible on working hours, though we do ask everyone on the team to maintain an overlap with (at least) 10AM - 1PM US Eastern time

Salary banding: $118,000 – $178,000

What you’ll get in return:

• Competitive Base Salary 
• Generous paid vacation
• Generous parental leave (16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and unlimited sick days
• Equity for all employees at all levels
• Industry-leading health benefits that are applicable per country of residence for all our full-time employees
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Home Internet stipend
• Professional allocation for your growth and development
• One-time allowance to assist with your home office setup
• Company-paid access to Calm, Bravely, LinkedIn Learning, MyAcademy and Overdrive

Stack Overflow is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We value diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging and these pillars are at the heart of how we work together here at Stack. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying. 

For individuals based in California, and other locations where required, we will consider employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.