Founding Product UIUX Designer Remote EU

At Kerno we are on a daring mission to unlock the untapped potential of every software engineer by establishing a new world order in developer experiences when building and optimizing their applications. We want to empower every developer on the planet with the capabilities to have complete ownership of their code from inception to production removing any barriers that prevent this. Were starting by building a developercentric observability tool that combines worldclass developer experience performance and data intelligence to make it as easy as possible for developers to understand how their code behaves in complex distributed systems so they can make better decisions and fix production issues faster and with complete independence. We are a small fully remote team of makers who care deeply about our craft and strive to build highly functional performant minimalistic and magical experiences for developers.

Tasks

As the Founding Designer at Kerno you will play a pivotal role and your voice will carry tremendous weight in shaping the product experience and visual identity. You will enjoy ownership of a broad scope of responsibilities supporting product brand and marketing and will go on to define Kernos design culture. Here is an excellent guide from First Round Capital about being a Founding Designer at an earlystage startup: What youll be working on

• Lead the overall design direction of the product
• Establish and grow a design culture at Kerno
• Research and propose features and improvements that will delight our users
• Design flows prototypes and highfidelity visuals for your features
• Work closely with engineers to ensure a highquality implementation
• Develop and implement software design and development processes so that we can build a worldclass product

Requirements

• Experience designing dev tools
• Basic conceptual understanding of software infrastructure
• Experience designing interactive applications
• Excellent visual UI and interaction skills
• BONUS Experience hiring leading and managing design teams

What we are looking for:

• Passion for design and figuring out the best possible solutions to UX UI and interaction challenges
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to think through complex interaction design
• Expressing ideas through visuals and prototyping (we use Figma)
• Experience with design systems programming and using technical tools like (Git Origami and FramerX).

Please note that we dont expect you to be a master at all of the things listed above so we encourage you to apply if you dont tick all the boxes.

Benefits

We believe employers shouldnt nickel and dime employees so we are committed to ensuring that remunerations represent our best foot forward. Unfortunately we cant offer a multimillion salary package (yet) but we balance any shortcomings in salary with a generous equity package and employee benefits.

• Challenging and interesting work that will one day impact millions of developers.
• Work with a small driven and cohesive team of heavypunchers
• Work remotely
• Paid coworking space/desk at an office
• 5weeks paid vacation
• Regular team offsites
• Employeefriendly stockoption package (7year exercise period)