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 innate 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 strong beliefs, loosely held, and the ability to balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line. Nice-to-haves include experience designing and building tools with small teams, unique strengths and perspectives, and familiarity with computing heroes. Notion is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing highly competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.
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 experience working on/with growth teams and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Curious and passionate about learning and experimentation. Enjoy using data and research to form hypothesis and craft unique, testable product experiences that help drive business impact.
- Generative and explore a wide variety of design solutions.
- Seek to understand the needs of customers and advocate for the strongest user experiences to solve their problems.
- Create clear, intuitive, and visually appealing human interfaces.
- Care about business needs, implications, and practicality of your designs. Don't get stuck on pretty UI or deep abstractions and can balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.
- Strong beliefs, loosely held. Good listener who collaborates well with different stakeholders. Observe and internalize all inputs and feedback to help you reach an optimal decision.
- Understand how to tell stories using both words and visuals, and strategize the best ways to drive alignment.
- Value working cross-functionally with project management, engineering, research and data — as well as design peers.
- Designed and built great tools with small teams in the past (Nice to have).
- Bring unique strengths and perspectives to the team. We're looking to build a diverse team where our skills and experience can complement each other (Nice to have).
- Experienced the pain of fragmented tools and information silos created by them, and have a strong urge to fix it (Nice to have).
- Familiar with the work of computing heroes like Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, Bret Victor, etc. — and understand why we're big fans (Nice to have).
- Designer who can code (Nice to have).