Job Description for Product Designer at Metabase - Global Remote
Our design culture is unique:
- We focus on solving root problems rather than applying superficial fixes
- We care more about a solution “feeling” right than rigidly adhering to “consistency”
- We ship iteratively and value real-world outcomes over “perfect” process or glossy internal artifacts
Recent projects our designers have tackled include:
- Reimagining the experience for exploring and visualizing data
- Overhauling the UX for writing custom expressions
- Crafting customizable, embeddable components for our SDK
Responsibilities
- Deliver end-to-end design solutions that are truly elegant, beautiful, fun, and simple.
- Keep complexity from creeping into the product, while giving users ever more power.
- Be a thought partner with your team’s product manager to refine the problem definition, goals, and rough scope of projects.
- Iterate rapidly and broadly in scrappy ways that make abstract ideas tangible and which move conversations forward.
- Deeply internalize the needs and mindset of our users through insights provided by the broader team. UX research skills aren't needed, but welcome.
Profile
- You think in terms of journeys, not screens.
- Biased toward building things, not slide decks.
- Work out in the open instinctively, out of an eagerness to receive feedback, and to riff and iterate with an experienced, skilled team.
- Thorough and attentive to detail, with a high internal bar for your craft.
- Exceptional ability to communicate design decisions and rationales through speaking and writing.
- Comfortable with asynchronous collaboration, and articulating complex ideas remotely.
Skills and experience
- Strong intuitions and craft developed over 5+ years of product design experience. Your work will rely on research and analytics, but it will shine because of solid instincts and craftsmanship.
- Experience designing rich, deep web applications/tools
- Technical enough to understand at a high level what's happening inside the engineering black-boxes. (If you don't understand the complexity, how can you simplify it?)
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience with LLM-based UI prototyping
- Experience with Web development (HTML, CSS, React)
- Technical background or education (CS degree or similar)
- Experience building or using developer tools
This job opportunity is part of Scouthappy's curated collection of remote jobs open to African talent. Apply now to join a global team.

