Senior Product Designer, Analytics

Customer.io is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our product design team. We’re working hard to build a product that enables companies to communicate authentically with their customers in inventive and flexible ways. You'll join a team of highly skilled and empowered designers in a remote and distributed company of about 280 team members across 17 countries.

This role will join the Analytics squad, where you’ll help shape a new generation of AI-powered analytics features purpose-built for growth and marking professionals. You'll research and design solutions while also working with the squad to prioritize projects, build customer empathy, and measure the success of new features. You'll push the entire design team to create more impactful experiences by giving great feedback, iterating on team processes, and holding people accountable for our culture and quality standards.

What you'll do…

• Develop an understanding and compassion for customers through research
• Create design proposals for new features and collaborate with engineers on prototypes
• Participate in the product team's prioritization of work, advocating for the customer experience
• Help shape the design team's culture and design processes, including sharing thoughtful 1:1 feedback with peers

About you…

• You’re an experienced product designer with 3+ years of experience in a software development setting
• You have a portfolio of work that includes shipping data visualization and/or analytics solutions
• You have prior success working on complex software products and an ability to learn and understand detailed technical constraints
• You are comfortable approaching problems from first principles, repeatedly asking “why?” and using that insight to explore unique, innovative solutions to complex problems
• Your design executions display a high level of craft, and you have a strong ability to communicate the thinking behind your designs to partners and stakeholders
• You have a growth mindset and a willingness to receive and provide feedback, and learn from mistakes
• You thrive with autonomy and ownership, and are comfortable navigating ambiguity
• You are comfortable communicating asynchronously, including across time zones
• You have a passion for making complex functionality more approachable
• You have experience and passion for taking complex concepts and making them more understandable in you designs

What we're looking for…

• Prior experience in a B2B SaaS setting, preferably using or building tools that drive adoption and growth
• Able to commit to at least 3 hrs of working overlap with the Americas (GMT-8 to GMT-5 timezone)
• Familiarity designing within the constraints of a design system and how interfaces are built from components
• Experience conducting your own user research to gather customer insights and incorporate it into your design decision-making
• Experience with tools like Mixpanel, Amplitude, or Fullstory
• Proficiency with Figma

About Design at Customer.io

While your daily work will be as part of a cross-functional squad, the design team will be your home for support and growth. We meet as a design team multiple times each week to give feedback on in-progress work, and communicate daily about new things we learn, improvements to our design system, and collaboratively define and develop our design culture.

About Customer.io

Our mission at Customer.io is to power automated communication that people like to receive. Today over 7,500 internet businesses use Customer.io to manage, send, and track the performance of emails, SMS, push notifications, and in-app messages. Unlike typical marketing platforms, Customer.io helps businesses increase relevance by using behavioral data: what people do or don’t do when logged in to a web or mobile app.

We are offering a starting salary of $133,000 to $148,000 USD (or equivalent in local currency) depending on experience and subject to market rate adjustment.

Zone 1: USD $159,000 - USD $178,000

Zone 2: USD $145,000 - USD $163,000

Zone 3: USD $133,000 - USD $148,000 

Benefits at Customer.io include:

• Unlimited PTO - we encourage at least 20 vacation days (in addition to holidays and sick days) so that you can unwind, unplug, and recharge
• 16 weeks paid parental leave (including adoption and foster care)
• 100% paid insurance premiums for you and your dependents
• 401k retirement matching - up to 5% dollar-for-dollar match to retirement contributions
• $1,500 annual healthy lifestyle budget (for gym memberships, classes, fitness equipment)
• $250/monthly Remote Work Stipend to be used for home internet, cell phone, and other miscellaneous remote work costs
• $300/month co-working space rental reimbursement
• $2,000/yearly professional education budget for conferences, courses, workshops, books, etc.
• $1,500 home office budget to make sure your working space is ergonomic and just what you need to do your best work!
• One month sabbatical after five years at Customer.io
• We also have opportunities to meet in person with your peers throughout the year

All final candidates will be asked to complete a background check and employment verifications as part of our pre-employment process.

Customer.io recognizes the stifling impact of systemic injustice on diverse communities. We commit to using our influence to increase inclusion and equity within the tech industry. We strive to build an inclusive team culture, implement bias-free hiring practices, and develop community partnerships to expand our global impact.

Join us!

Check out our careers page for more information about why you should come work with us! We are passionate about our core values of Empathy, Transparency, Responsibility, and Awkwardness and are looking for new coworkers to share and build that passion!

How to apply

Apply at the link below and tell us why you're interested in the position! ****We plan to respond to all applicants with a status update about your application.

At Customer.io, we prioritize authentic interest and applications in our hiring process. To ensure fairness and integrity, the use of AI or automation during interviews or assessments is prohibited. Candidates who do not adhere to this will be removed from consideration.

Here's what you can expect from our hiring process:

Here's what you can expect from our hiring process:

1. 30-minute intro call with a Recruiter
2. 60 minute video call with the Hiring Manager
3. Portfolio Review:
   1. 1 hour video call with senior design team members & cross-functional partners
4. Final Stage:
   1. 1 hour video call exercise with a Principal Product Designer
   2. 30 min video call with a Product Manager
   3. 30 min video call with Engineering Manager

Zoom is the only video conference platform that we use, virtual interviews will be conducted using the video capability (i.e., not via the chat), and offers will be extended in writing on official Customer.io letterhead. Please be vigilant in all of your job search activity, and if you have any questions please contact [email protected].