UX Designer

OUR CUSTOMERS DEVELOP SOFTWARE AT THE SPEED OF IDEAS

CloudBees is powering the continuous economy by offering the world’s first end-to-end continuous software delivery management system (SDM). For millions of developers and product teams driving innovation for businesses large or small, SDM builds on continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to enable all functions and teams within and around the software delivery organization to best work together to amplify value creation.

CloudBees is the continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and application release automation (ARA) powerhouse built from the commercial success of its products and its open source leadership as the largest contributor to Jenkins and a founding member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). With a globally distributed workforce of more than 500 employees, the company reflects the global nature of the DevOps movement. We believe in walking the talk! From startups with full-stack developers practicing NoOps to large Fortune 100 companies, CloudBees enables all software-driven organizations to intelligently deploy the right capabilities at the right time.

Over 3,500 of the world’s best known brands and over 50% of the Fortune 500, invest in CloudBees because of its ability to work across any cloud, in any development environment and to balance corporate governance and control with developer flexibility and freedom.

CloudBees is home to the world’s leading DevOps experts helping thousands of companies harness the power of “continuous everything” and putting them on the fastest path from great idea, to great software, to great business value.

What you will do

At CloudBees you’ll join a strong and growing team of designers that is mission critical to CloudBees’ success. We believe in the value of design thinking in every stage of a project, from initial research to delivery and iteration. You will have the opportunity to have a lasting impact on the way software is made.

• Utilize design thinking methodologies from empathy to rapid prototyping to arrive at creative, intuitive end-to-end experiences
• Leverage and/or conduct user research to inform design decisions and evaluate your designs
• Clearly and effectively communicate ideas, research findings, sketches, and other deliverables to the business and leadership
• Design and deliver user-stories, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes and UI specifications in an agile and collaborative environment.
• Move between making strategic and tactical design decisions regularly to devise elegant solutions within a complex business domain
• Communicate a strong point of view–informed by customer insights, design principles, and industry trends–yet hold it only loosely. 

• Establish and manage relationships with key stakeholders including product managers, marketing, and engineering teams to align with and achieve business objectives
• Give and solicit feedback from other designers in order to continually raise the bar for design quality and collaborate across the Design team to ensure consistency and transparency
• Create the interfaces that some of the world's largest brands depend on - Adobe, Invision, Capital One, Citrix, Accenture… ~50% of fortune 500  companies use our technology to build their own. 

What the role requires

• 4 years of experience as user experience designer, interaction designer or product designer, delivering comprehensive and elegant end-to-end solutions within a complex business environment.
• Ideally experience designing applications for enterprise customers
• Proven ability to collaborate with other designers, developers, and other stakeholders remotely to transform complex, technical problems into beautiful, simple user experiences.
• Hands-on experience with user research methodologies and usability testing
• Self-motivated and able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.  
• Comfortable with receiving constructive design feedback, and able to dig into issues without defensiveness
• Fully proficient in English written and spoken language
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to articulate UX decisions and problem statements to stakeholders, customers, and other team members.
• Experience presenting to senior stakeholders within an organization
• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, InVision, Figma, etc
• An online portfolio that demonstrates expertise in web application design, modern design aesthetic, attention to detail, and creative thinking.
• You can show examples that explore the development of a solution at different stages in the creative process (e.g. discovery, storyboards, flow diagrams, wireframes, layouts, validation, etc.)
• Experience with project tracking tools such as Jira
• Bonus:
• Ability to work effectively in a remote environment, across time-zones. 
• Understanding of HTML + CSS
• Experience/knowledge of CI & CD tools such as Jenkins, CodeShip, Circle, Travis, or GitLab.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

• Highly competitive benefits and vacation package
• Ability to work for one of the fastest growing companies with some of the most talented people in the industry
• Team outings
• Fun, Hardworking, and Casual Environment
• Endless Growth Opportunities

 

At CloudBees, we truly believe that the more diverse we are, the better we serve our customers. A global community like Jenkins demands a global focus from CloudBees. Organizations with greater diversity—gender, racial, ethnic, and global—are stronger partners to their customers. Whether by creating more innovative products, or better understanding our worldwide customers, or establishing a stronger cross-section of cultural leadership skills, diversity strengthens all aspects of the CloudBees organization.

In the technology industry, diversity creates a competitive advantage. CloudBees customers demand technologies from us that solve their software development, and therefore their business problems, so that they can better serve their own customers. CloudBees attributes much of its success to its worldwide workforce and commitment to global diversity, which opens our proprietary software to innovative ideas from anywhere. Along the way, we have witnessed firsthand how employees, partners, and customers with diverse perspectives and experiences contribute to creative problem solving and better solutions for our customers and their business.