About the position
The job overview for this role at Notion is to design product concepts and features with a focus on vision, craft, speed, and business potential. The ideal candidate will have strong product and UX sense, technical aptitude, great taste, and impeccable craft. They will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand user needs and prioritize the product roadmap. The role requires 5+ years of experience in running projects independently end to end. Nice to haves include experience designing and building tools with small teams, unique perspectives, and familiarity with computing heroes. Notion is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design product concepts that balance vision, craft, speed, and business potential.
- Craft every detail of new product features, from idea to UX to pixel-perfect execution.
- Run projects end to end with engineers to drive your vision to the ship line.
- Partner closely with our Customer Experience, Sales, and Customer Success teams to understand what each of our diverse user segments need, want, and love about Notion. Use this data and acquired intuition to prioritize, plan, and scope our product roadmap.
- Work with Marketing to devise new ways to tell great stories throughout the user lifecycle, and across our site, product, help guides and other channels.
- Create new patterns that are intuitive, practical, and convergent. Evolve our design system intentionally as we scale.
Requirements
- 5+ years of working experience
- Ability to run projects independently end to end
- Understanding of customer needs and ability to advocate for strong user experiences
- Ability to create clear, intuitive, and visually appealing human interfaces
- Ability to balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with different stakeholders
- Ability to tell stories using both words and visuals
- Value working cross-functionally with project management, engineering, research and data, as well as design peers
- Familiarity with designing and building great tools with small teams
- Unique strengths and perspectives to complement the team
- Familiarity with the work of computing heroes like Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, Bret Victor, etc.
- Ability to code (nice to have)