Senior Product / UX Designer

GlassFlow is a Python-based data streaming infrastructure challenging legacy technologies like Apache Kafka. GlassFlow offers a serverless and production-ready setup that empowers everyone in your data team to build and transform event-driven data pipelines.

GlassFlow is an early stage VC backed startup from Berlin founded by data experts with decades of experience. GlassFlow is building a category defining infrastructure product from ground up and are supported by world class tech angels like Heikki Nousiainen (CTO Aiven), Thomas Dohmke (CEO GitHub), Sergei Sokolenko (ex Snowflake, Google).

Tasks

As the first design hire, you'll get to lay the design foundations of GlassFlow. As a product / UX designer you will be bringing the voice of the user to life in product and design by conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and high-fidelity prototypes.

Your design decisions will directly impact the user experience and overall success of GlassFlow.

You will collaborate directly with our CTO and engineering team and work closely with our lead frontend engineer. You will join a small team solving challenging problems in the field of Data engineering and building a product that will be used by developers across the world.

Requirements

Previous experience that could be helpful

• 4+ years of experience as a product or UX designer, ideally for a dev tool product
• Ability to conduct user testing and knowledge of user research methods
• Proficiency in Figma, or comparable prototyping tools
• Efficient communicator with experience working with cross-functional teams including software engineers
• Worked in fast growing environments or early stage startups

Benefits

• Competitive salary with Stock Option Grant
• Ticket for public transportation in Berlin
• Company credit card with monthly allowance (50€)
• Newest tech of your choosing
• Annual Learning budget for personal development
• Generous WFH policy and a budget for home office setup

At GlassFlow, we believe in an open, collaborative, and innovation-driven culture. As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to contribute ideas, provide feedback, and work together on exciting challenges.

Our work environment fosters creativity and individual responsibility as we collectively strive to revolutionize the way developers access data streaming.

If you don't meet all the criteria but are still interested in the role, we still encourage you to apply.

This role is based in Berlin, Germany and we are looking for candidates who are currently in Germany.

GlassFlow's mission is to democratize real-time data processing, helping organizations of all sizes and Python engineers from diverse backgrounds unlock the full potential of streaming data.

The product includes an easy-to-use setup that scales automatically with the performance needs of the pipelines and a serverless transformation engine that allows users to define applications as functions and events.