Product Designer

About us

At Dagster Labs, we’re an early-stage, well-funded startup team with a proven track record of shipping open-source software with global adoption. Our mission is to empower organizations to create scalable, productive data platforms. We put a premium on respectful, clear, and complete communication, and we expect each other to be creative, curious, effective, and empathetic.

We believe deeply that the right tools and abstractions enable not just technological transformation, but also organizational transformation. We strive to put the user and their hard work at the center of our decision making. In practice, that means we are looking for engineers who want to write clean APIs and helpful error messages, and who always try to understand user needs when designing a new system.

All of our open-source work is done publicly. You can gain context about how we collaborate as a team and the problems we work on by exploring GitHub and looking at our code reviews.

About the role

As a product designer at Dagster Labs, you’ll help shape the future of Dagster, creating high-quality UIs, prototypes, and brand artifacts. Design is a key differentiator for Dagster, and we operate as one cohesive design team across product and brand – this means you’ll have influence over how things work and look across our users’ entire end-to-end journey.

You’ll work alongside a supportive team of design peers, engineers, and product leaders with high standards for execution. Designers at Dagster Labs are empowered to engage directly with Dagster’s community of open-source users (you can join our community Slack here to check it out for yourself). We’re a small team with an ambitious mission, so there’s no shortage of interesting design challenges across the product and brand.

This is a full-time position offering competitive salary, equity, and benefits. We are a distributed team with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis. We’re open to hiring fully remote candidates who are currently authorized to work within the United States. We offer flexible remote work options so you can choose the environment that makes you most productive—whether that’s your home or a coworking space. Dagster Labs fosters a collaborative, remote-first culture, ensuring you have all the tools and support needed to thrive, no matter where you are.

Responsibilities

• Help level up and shape the future of the Dagster UI and brand
• Work closely with peers and stakeholders to ship high quality features in Dagster
• Produce design artifacts that guide development efforts to address real user and business needs
• Seek out new feature opportunities and improvements that delight data engineers
• Engage with the Dagster open-source community, Dagster+ customers, and customer support teams, to understand user needs and validate designs
• Collaborate with front-end and design peers to evolve our design system and brand

Must-have Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience designing enterprise applications with a portfolio demonstrating this experience
• Excellent attention to detail and value visual and UI craft
• Team player who values collaboration and an iterative process of co-creation
• Mastered design tools like Figma to prototype and communicate ideas
• Experience running lightweight qualitative user research sessions
• Great storyteller with clear written and verbal communication.

Nice-to-have Qualifications

• Designed tools for developers or data practitioners in the past
• Experience using developer tools like Git, VSCode, React, Vercel
• Experience with Webflow

You belong here

We are committed to building an inclusive team and an open-source community where no one feels out of place. We know that teams with diverse backgrounds state their assumptions more explicitly, think more rigorously, and build better software. Plus it's more fun and interesting to work with a wide variety of perspectives.

You should apply to work at Dagster Labs if you want to work in, and help to build and strengthen, a high-performing software development environment where people of all backgrounds are welcome.

Our Stack

Dagster is built in Python and TypeScript to work on macOS, Posix, and Windows. We use GraphQL, Apollo, and React to develop beautiful frontend tooling. We integrate with a wide range of databases, data warehouses, orchestration engines, compute substrates, and cloud services.

The estimated annual cash salary for this role is $170,000 - $200,000.

Other Resources

• The launch of Dagster blog post
• Launching Dagster Cloud to GA blog post
• The Data Engineering Impedance Mismatch blogpost/presentation
• What Dagster Believes About Data Platforms
• Software-Defined Assets blog post, Data Council talk, and animated explainer
• The April 2024 Dagster+ launch event