Timescale Careers

Product Designer (UI/UX)

Developer Relations

Timescale is looking for a Product Designer to help plan, design, and improve our managed database service. Maintaining a 10,000-foot view of the product while working on the small details of a feature is key. 

As a Product Designer at Timescale, your work will directly impact the projects of developers around the world and their time-series related data. This role closely collaborates with Product Managers, Front-end Developers, and other Product Designers to identify and build useful features and functionality across our flagship product, Timescale Cloud.

Job Responsibilities (what you’ll do):

  • Team up with Product Managers and Designers to conduct user interview and share findings with the team
  • Ownership of design challenges from start to finish, utilizing data from user interviews and other analytics to create improvements on the platform
  • Wireframe, design mockups, and create prototypes for design solutions
  • Produce clean, organized design files
  • Willingness and ability to jump into multiple projects and maintain a high-quality of work
  • Collaborate closely with Product Designers to develop, maintain, and elevate design systems
  • Assist in driving the product vision forward, iteratively designing to constantly improve the experience
  • Create specifications for smooth development handoff
  • Collaborate with Front-end Web Developers to ensure visual QA

Experience and skills:

  • 4+ years of design experience at a product-focused company
  • Highly organized, takes pride in attention to detail
  • Experience designing digital products with an emphasis on design systems
  • Experience translating user feedback and usage behavior into creative solutions
  • Expert-level experience with prototyping tools such as Figma, InVision, or Framer (We use Figma)
  • A passion for experimentation with new design techniques and technologies
  • Excellent written, verbal, and sketching communication skills
  • Self-starter who can execute on ideas, manage and prioritize multiple design tasks
  • A belief that organizations and industries are at their best when they are diverse and inclusive, and a commitment to ensuring that everything we do reflects that belief.

Bonus points:

  • Experience/working knowledge of CSS and adjacent web technologies such as React and JavaScript. 

About Timescale🐯

Timescale is the creator of TimescaleDB, the industry-leading relational database for time-series. Tens of thousands of organizations trust TimescaleDB today with their mission-critical time-series applications. The company is dedicated to serving software developers and businesses worldwide, enabling them to build exceptional data-driven products that measure everything that matters: software applications, industrial equipment, financial markets, blockchain activity, consumer behavior, machine learning models, climate change, and more. Analyzing data across the time dimension (“time-series data”) enables developers to understand what is happening right now, how that is changing, and why that is changing. Timescale is a remote-first company with a global workforce 🌎 and is backed by Tiger Global, Benchmark Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Redpoint Ventures, Icon Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, and other leading investors. For more information, visit www.timescale.com or follow @TimescaleDB.

Working at Timescale🐯

Timescale is breaking boundaries and setting new standards in the innovating and rapidly growing time-series data industry. Built on the foundation of people-focused values and principles, Timescale makes sure integrity, mutual respect, and compassion is at the heart of everything we do. Empowered by our Co-Founders, Ajay Kulkarni (CEO) and Mike Freedman (CTO), we are challenging the norm by working with people who continuously inspire and teach us 🤝. 

Enjoy debating the crunch-factor of different chicken nuggets 🍗, sweating it out during lunch 💦, talking about your kids, whether they be actual children 👶🏽, potted plants 🪴, or four-legged creatures 🐾? You’ll fit right in at Timescale!

What we’re offering

Benefits may differ from country to country.

  • Premium insurance options for you and your family
  • FSA/Dependent FSA plans for US based employees
  • Flexible PTO and family leave
  • Summer Fridays off in August ☀️
  • Full remote work from anywhere
  • Stock options
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Individual education benefits