Lead UX Designer

What you ll do

• Lead the design of end-to-end product experiences for Couchbase (with focus on Capella), from initial concept through polished execution.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to translate complex requirements into user-centered designs.
• Clarify requirements, identify constraints, and challenge assumptions to better define the problem space.
• Explore a wide breadth of design options and articulate trade-offs for each approach.
• Deliver crisp, pixel perfect, and robust high-fidelity designs. Include edge cases and interactive states when relevant.
• Develop interactive prototypes to explore and validate new features, workflows, and interactions.
• Conduct user research to uncover pain points and opportunities, leveraging insights to inform design decisions.
• Give constructive design feedback and mentor junior designers.
• Contribute to our design system while maintaining visual cohesion and scalability.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• Experience designing products for specialized audiences such as developers, SREs, and DBAs; familiarity with database software is needed.
• Experience conducting user research and applying insights to design decisions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience as a UX or Product Designer, with a portfolio showcasing your best work.
• Proven ability to transform complex product briefs into simple, intuitive experiences.
• Strategic thinker who considers the big picture before diving into details - know when to zoom out and when to zoom in. Understanding of systems thinking, and the ability to factor in interdependencies between features.
• Experience conducting user research and applying insights to design decisions.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate design concepts and rationale.
• Comfortable working in distributed teams and collaborating across time zones.
• Should be proficient with Figma and AI tools.