Senior Product Designer

• Department: Product
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Experience Level: 4 – 6 Years
• Location: Remote (Europe or North America Timezones)

Role Overview

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our Directus Design team and who loves diving into complex problems and turning them into simple, well-crafted user experiences. You will be joining our growing Design team and design projects from the early discovery phase and into final implementation while shaping the next generation of the Directus product suite.

If you enjoy thinking big picture, being hands-on, and thrive in an environment where creativity and curiosity drive your design, then this role is for you.

What You'll Do

• Be opinionated and comfortable with exploring solutions, creating prototypes, and diving into user feedback to find opportunity areas for improvements for every project and initiatives.
• Design complete product experience from 0 → 1 starting from user flows and wireframes into polished, production-ready high-fidelity screens.
• Collaborate with the rest of the Design Team to evolve and maintain our product vision, design systems, brand guidelines, and even internal design collaboration process.
• Design with care and attention to visual details (i.e. typography/fonts, spacing, color, layouts, and other fun bits) that reinforces Directus' design-forward ideology.
• Create visual and graphic design assets to help support our Marketing team.
• Participate in our weekly rituals like design syncs to showcase your end-to-end design process that might include any visual design assets, screen iterations, high-fidelity prototypes, and more.

What We're Looking For

• A design nerd (in a good way) who is full of creativity and curiosity with tons of "what if…?" questions and open to exploring new directions with an energy for problem-solving.
• Good communication and collaboration skills that allows you to collaborate closely cross-departments within Product, Engineering, and Marketing.
• Have strong proficiency with the Figma ecosystem, including maintaining and contributing to design systems, building reusable components and templates, designing interactive prototypes, and collaborating cross-functionally within shared files.
• Strong visual design and aesthetic taste in typography, color, iconography, interface design and how these visual elements can impact the product usability.
• Comfortable with conducting user research, competitor analysis, and turning insights into actionable product design solutions.
• Knowledge in interaction design and design thinking that helps with defining how user experience would behave and scale based on user needs.
• An all-round designer who is comfortable with jumping between doing product design and creating marketing visuals or graphic assets to help maintain a consistent brand identity across multiple channels.
• Highly self-driven, who can be fast and scrappy, and can own decision-making while working in a fast-paced startup environment.

Nice to Have

• Have experience in open-source platforms, technical developer tools, and/or data-focused products.
• Familiarity with tools like Linear and Notion to stay aligned with project management, documentation, and cross-team collaboration.
• A plus if you have any experience with motion design or are comfortable with messing around in Adobe After Effects and similar motion graphics tools.

What We Offer

• High-value impact with Directus product.
• Flexible work hours and comprehensive benefits.
• Cross-functional collaboration in a remote-first work environment.
• Competitive compensation and equity participation.

Application Process

Interested candidates should submit their cover letter, resume, and portfolio highlighting relevant experience. Please include examples of any relevant projects, certifications, or contributions in product design.

Directus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We're committed to building a diverse team of talented individuals who bring different perspectives to the company, and who feel a sense of inclusion and belonging when they join our team.

If you're unsure about some of the details above, feel free to reach out with questions. We would love to hear from you!

Company Overview

Directus is a venture-backed Data Platform with a passionate community and millions of users worldwide. Modern and completely modular, our core product is comprised of a connection toolkit for developers, and an intuitive no-code App for non-technical users. With the ability to be installed next to any new or existing SQL database, Directus instantly provides end-to-end data democratization.

Directus provides the data foundation for internal data tools and omnichannel digital experiences at some of the world's most forward-looking companies, including AT&T, Bose, HTC, Prada, TripAdvisor, and the United States Navy.

We're obsessed with meticulously honing the perfect data platform. Our product-led growth strategy keeps us focused on creating a premium offering, prioritizing innovative solutions over feature bloat, and code quality over technical debt.

Our team and ecosystem are growing at a rapid pace, but we still enjoy the benefits of being a smaller, more "tactical" team. Our organization is filled with 'do-ers' where most wear a few hats, and work with relative autonomy.