design
Posted Jan 31, 2013Product Designer
at Palantir
London, United KingdomOn-site
Requirements
- The Role The Palantir Design Team is responsible for the human experience of using our software.
- On a given day, you might be: leading a design sprint for your product team; designing a micro-interaction to make a complex analytical task feel simple; and/or advocating for UX consistency by creating flexible, reusable UI components.
- You consider things like API documentation, SDK functionality, and developer onboarding and can speak the language of a developer.
- You have familiarity with existing developer tooling and have strong understanding of developer workflows. Core Responsibilities
- experience with mockup and prototyping tools.
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Typescript is appreciated.
- You don't need to be an expert—just fluent enough to collaborate with engineers, and know what's possible with frontend technologies.
Benefits
- We work together in realising a shared product vision, and regularly give feedback and critique to each other.
Additional details
- A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations.
- By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.
- Our team is growing rapidly, but we're committed to creating a tight-knit team environment that fosters trust, integrity, empathy, and growth.
- As a product designer, you'll be involved at every stage of design work.
- You'll help define early product concepts, flesh out the high-level workflow and micro-interactions of a feature, and execute on a crisp and effective visual design. You should have
- User research. We frequently do informal user research, and value people who can be flexible with research processes and methodologies to achieve the right outcome.
- Prototyping. You will prototype, both to communicate your designs and validate your decisions.
- We work closely with product and forward deployed engineers to realize our design ideas.
- You'll treat engineers as partners and collaborate with them to prototype and build out products.
- Resources and mentorship are available to designers who want to learn more.