Product Designer II - Waypoint
US (remote); #LI-Remote
About HashiCorp Design
We build the Infrastructure Cloud which allows enterprises to take a unified approach to Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management:Infrastructure Lifecycle Management: Build / Deploy / Manage
- Terraform allows you to use infrastructure as code to provision and manage any infrastructure across your organization.
- Packer standardizes image workflows across cloud providers, allowing teams to build, govern and manage any image for any cloud.
- Waypoint makes infrastructure easily accessible at scale, enabling platform teams to deliver golden patterns and workflows with an internal developer platform.
- Nomad brings modern application scheduling to any type of software, allowing you to manage containers, binaries and VMs efficiently in the cloud, on-premises and across edge environments.
- Vagrant isolates dependencies and their configuration within a single disposable and consistent development environment.
Security Lifecycle Management: Protect / Inspect / Connect
- Vault provides organizations with identity-based security to automatically authenticate and authorize access to secrets and other sensitive data.
- Boundary standardizes secure remote access across dynamic environments, allowing organizations to connect users and manage access with identity-based security controls.
- Consul standardizes service networking, allowing you to discover and securely connect any service across any runtime with identity-based service networking.
We deliver the Infrastructure Cloud through an enterprise-grade unified SaaS platform, HCP.
What’s special about HashiCorp Design?
At HashiCorp, we work on products that our users and customers love. It dramatically eases the work and overhead of deploying and managing infrastructure for teams, allowing people to focus on the uniquely valuable parts of their job, rather than tedious and repetitive tasks. This means customers really use our software and provide lots of feedback. Gathering and understanding this feedback requires that we collaborate across multiple disciplines, including Product, Engineering, Field, MarketingWe design and build workflows to enable our customers to secure their applications and protect sensitive information data.
We focus on enabling platform teams and their customers (typically developers) to adopt and improve strong security practices. We do this with the user at heart and our ‘beauty works better’ principle in hand. We believe the design process can and should feel satisfying for stakeholders, continually improve with insights, and regularly deliver positive outcomes for our business.We find that our principles of Kindness, Humility, and Reflection allow team members to collaborate openly and safely. We look to help and learn from each other and win together.HashiCorp Design is looking for people who want to do the best work of their careers to join us and make all of us better.
About Waypoint
HCP Waypoint is designed to enable platform teams to define golden patterns and workflows for developers to enable management of applications at scale. Waypoint and HCP Terraform work collaboratively to let developers quickly set up their apps' infrastructure with just a button press. The goal of Waypoint is to help platform teams provide a clear and consistent developer experience for their development teams while providing a central catalog of applications, day-2+ operations, and their associated metadata.
HCP Waypoint is a rapidly evolving product with lofty aspirations.
About the role
As the Product Designer for Waypoint, you’ll help us maintain a focus on user experience across Waypoint and identify strategic opportunities for improvement. You’ll work with your cross-functional peers to drive awareness and prioritize initiatives to improve the user experience measurably. You’ll contribute to product strategy and vision discussions and help drive alignment through the work of the team.
In this role, you can expect to:
- Be a passionate designer who thrives in uncertainty and ambiguity.
- Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to set priorities, goals, and roadmaps, and help guide product innovations from early concepts to GA release.
- Own the end-to-end design process, develop a domain understanding of Waypoint and its user workflows.
- Combine research and creativity to deliver practical, elegant solutions for technical users, validating designs through generative research, user testing, and analytics.
- Partner with engineers on feasibility, responsiveness, and details of components.
- Work iteratively in an agile environment, adapting quickly to user and stakeholder feedback to refine and enhance designs.
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to determine and prioritize new features and enhancements critical to the success of HashiCorp customers and community
You may be a good fit for our team if some of the following apply:
- You have established yourself as a professional enterprise Product Designer
- You have experience building enterprise software for security, developer tooling, or developer experience.
- You have experience enabling a team to turn complex workflows into simple user experiences.
- You enjoy working collaboratively with a distributed remote team.
- You value feedback and seeking ways to learn and grow as a designer.
- You understand the importance of culture and building a fun, high-functioning team.
- You’ve reviewed our principles, and they resonate with your professional values.
- You have familiarity with or are willing to learn the key workflows involved in HashiCorp products (Terraform, Packer, Vagrant, Waypoint, Nomad, Vault, Boundary, Consul)
What is our hiring process like?
The below serves as a basic outline; we may choose to add or remove steps based on the information that we gather during the process.
- Introductory Call with someone from our recruiting team
- First Interview with a Design Manager
- Portfolio Review with a panel of Designers, PMs and Engineers
- Interview Loop with additional team members that touch on the following:
- Communication and Collaboration
- Process & Design Thinking
- If applicable, a final conversation with the Design Manager for the team you would be joining
- Offer
We do our best to accommodate your programming language of choice for technical interviews.Individual pay within the range will be determined based on job related-factors such as skills, experience, and education or training.The base pay range for this role in the SF Bay Area / NYC area is:$153,000—$180,000 USDThe base pay range for this role in California (excluding SF Bay Area), New York (excluding NYC), Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, Washington D.C., or Maryland is:$140,300—$165,000 USDThe base pay range for this role in Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro), Illinois, Minnesota, or Washington (excluding Seattle Metro) is:$127,500—$150,000 USD
