A beautiful OS to run a server in your home.
Product Designer
Location
United States
Posted
103 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Product Designer
Umbrel
• Work on the product design of umbrelOS • Design first-party umbrelOS apps • Contribute to the design of the umbrel.com website
Job Requirements
- Like to spend your days staring at artboards in Figma
- Are obsessed with creating delightful micro-interactions and animations
- Are willing to throw away ideas if they're not great, and optimistic enough to keep hunting for new ones
- Care about the details, maybe a bit too much (a pixel off ruins your sleep)
- Are excited to collaborate with everyone on the team: engineers, customer facing folks, etc - you believe inspiration can come from anywhere
- Have good judgement of when to ship
- Like to level up your design skills continually
- Put yourselves in the shoes of our users to craft a great experience
- Enjoy being a generalist and are not tied down to a specific design, trend, or tools
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