SaaS UX/UI Designer

We’re looking for a talented UX/UI Designer to join us at Percona! We want you to play a pivotal role in our new team, and pave the way in shaping the architecture and design of our cutting-edge Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. Do you thrive in the electric buzz of a startup ethos? This opportunity is your ticket to a fresh frontier within Percona, a pioneering team crafting novel solutions for our customers. So, if you're ready to dive into the heartbeat of an innovative, high-performance team, your search ends right here!

As the SaaS UX/UI Designer at Percona, you will be instrumental in creating visually stunning and user-friendly interfaces for our SaaS products. You'll work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to understand user needs, design intuitive experiences, and contribute to the overall success of our SaaS solutions.

What You Will Do:

• Have a strong product mindset, and a foundation in problem solving and experimentation (i.e. participating and collaborating in the creative process, generating solution ideas, fast-prototyping those ideas, conducting tests, evaluating results, and iterating over and over).
• Develop, maintain, and evolve a comprehensive design system that supports our SaaS products.
• Create and document UI components, design patterns, and interaction guidelines to ensure consistency across all platforms.
• Conduct user research to understand the needs, behaviors, and pain points of our target audience.
• Translate user insights into user personas, journey maps, and design solutions that prioritize the user experience.
• Design aesthetically pleasing and intuitive user interfaces for our SaaS products.
• Create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to visualize and communicate design concepts.
• Work closely with front-end and back-end developers to ensure seamless integration of design concepts.
• Collaborate on the implementation of design elements, providing guidance and support throughout the development process.
• Conduct usability testing to gather feedback on design prototypes and iterate on designs based on user input.
• Analyze user data and behavior to make informed design decisions and improvements.
• Establish and maintain a consistent design language and style guide for our SaaS products.

What You Have Done:

• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in product design, preferably in SaaS solutions.
• Experience in designing interfaces for observability platforms and/or features.
• Strong portfolio showcasing your design work, with an emphasis on user-centered design principles.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and best practices.
• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, Figma .etc.
• Experience with Tailwind CSS and the integration into design systems.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with varying deadlines and milestones.

What Will Make You Stand Out:

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Interaction Design, or related field.
• Experienced with database metrics, tools and reporting.
• Experience in designing and prototyping user interfaces within technical constraints while leveraging and maximizing technical features.
• Experience with all stages of product development - concept, wireframes, design iterations, production and quality assurance.
• UX research experience conducting contextual research, design synthesis, concept testing, usability testing, and heuristic evaluation.
• Experience in front end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React).

Personal Attributes:

• Global mindset.
• Pride and ownership of meeting expectations.
• Adaptable, resourceful, and able to work within ambiguity.
• Self-directed and highly organized.
• Creative and innovative.

Why Percona?

At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely, by providing the best open source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.

Percona is proud to be a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard.

Our staff receives generous benefits including flexible work hours and various paid time off programs, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), ongoing connectivity allowances, and the opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology.

If you love the idea of working with a high-growth tech company that is one of the best in the business and known globally as a leader in the open-source database space, let’s talk! Connect with us and stay up to date on our latest news and developments by following us on LinkedIn and Twitter. We look forward to connecting with you!