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We are looking for an experienced Designer to join our Design System team. You’ll be involved in building the design elements that contribute to a unified user experience across all our products. We’re looking for someone with a strong foundation in product design and interaction patterns for responsive web. While we’re not responsive yet, we’re looking for you to help us push our Design System towards that direction. Reporting into our Principal Product Designer, this is an excellent remote career opportunity within Hotjar’s P&E department, playing a part in delivering the next wins for Hotjar.
Our Design System has been an ongoing internal effort for the last year and we’re looking for someone to help take charge of its next evolution. You should love collaborating with others as you’ll work with a team of 12+ designers on a day to day basis to apply our Design Language to Hotjar’s products and guiding the designers to the next level of craftmanship. This includes managing things like our Figma libraries, Documentation &Best Practices, as well as Accessibility guidelines.
A little bit about us:
Hotjar, we’re building Behavior Analytics software for businesses selling online. We make it easy for them to go beyond traditional web analytics and understand what users are really doing on their site. Hotjar is a flourishing startup that gives thousands of website owners, teams and professionals the tools needed to discover how their visitors are really using their sites.
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead the visual and interaction design of building blocks and UI patterns that make up the Hotjar user interface.
- Identify, prioritize, and monitor task, progress of design, development, and documentation across team members.
- Partner with 12+ designers across multiple squads to come up with solutions that consider and prioritize our design debt, design dependencies, and that support teams building UI at scale.
- Be a bridge with our Brand Design team, introducing our brand character into the personality of our building blocks. Keep agreement and a single brand identity across organizations.
- Work with software engineers to ensure our designed components are in-sync with React components. Consider technical constraints to always bring incremental value.
- Work with Experience Design leadership to provide a consistent experience in all our Hotjar touch-points, while allowing the team to design at scale.
Requirements
You’d be a great addition if you:
- You have 4+ years of experience in product design and user-centric practices. You’ve built and managed at least a couple of design systems and have deep experience in the field.
- You have solid experience writing component documentation. Your strength is to partner and solve requirements across different teams and designers while educating how to build UI at scale.
- Mastery in Figma and additional design tools that allow modern design teams to develop a design system.
- Experience guiding deliverables across groups, multiple squads, and tribes.
- You are a visual and interaction designer, who provides detailed component behavior states that are both accessible and that can solve complex design problems. You understand technical constraints and can make trade-offs.
- You have a natural inclination to always think MVP first.
- Experience leading user testing sessions and validating design efforts. You put the user in the center of the interaction model you build for our components library.
- Desire to work in a respectful, transparent, and collaborative work environment, following Hotjar’s company values, culture and ways of working.
- Must submit to a background check confidentially processed by our third-party. (!)
- Desire to work in a respectful, transparent, and collaborative work environment, following Hotjar’s company values, culture and ways of working. (!)
Compensation Range:
The compensation range for this role is €55,000 to €75,000 annually. This was established after performing market research and is aligned with our approach to compensation. We encourage all candidates to read our Recruitment FAQs to further understand our approach to compensation and how we structure our contracts.
In addition to the monetary compensation, we provide all team members with an assortment of unique and popular perks chosen to reflect our values and ideals, be it encouraging constant learning with our Personal Development Budget, a great work/life balance with the annual leave and Holiday Budget, or a happy, healthy team with our Wellbeing Budget.
Hotjar pledges to be a harassment-free and discrimination-free company, committed to equal opportunity. We believe people from different backgrounds, with different identities and experiences, make our product, and our company, better.