Lead product designer (ux)

Decentralized Web Services (DWS) is a cloud infrastructure platform that unites the best of both worlds - cheap prices and high security. Providing developers with an easy to use platform where they can deploy resources quickly and pay in one currency at highly competitive prices. DWS storage is 30 times cheaper than traditional cloud, compute is 80% cheaper and GPUs are half the cost whilst also having a wider geographic coverage compared to traditional cloud providers.

Our mission is to democratize access to decentralized cloud infrastructure.

The company was founded in 2021, successfully raising its first seed round in 2023. DWS is building an ambitious product with global expansion in its sights, which is why we’re seeking entrepreneurial minded people to join our mission as part of the initial founding team and become a key part of our success in overtaking the cloud market.

DWS is a dynamic start-up company, and our successful candidate must have the ability and desire to work in a fast-paced environment. As a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds.

Role Description:
The Lead UX Product Designer will work closely with the engineering team and play a leading role in the end-to-end design of the DWS platform, coordinating user research and creatively solving user problems.

You will help us take DWS’ UX to the next level through the development of user research activities, design systems and processes. You will be responsible for making sure all design output is not only aesthetically beautiful but well researched, easy-to-use and delivering a consistent user experience. As a passionate user-centric design advocate, you will be able to win stakeholder buy-in and bring everyone on board with your creative vision.

Responsibilities:
- Concept, prototype, validate, fine-tune and present design solutions for DWS
- Communicate those solutions to our developers
- Create sketches, flows, wireframes and other design artifacts
- Advocate for our customers by gaining a deep understanding of their work and the challenges they face
- Be a leader to product management in helping to come up with approaches that work — you’re here to empower us with your creativity
- Proactively apply research techniques that are appropriate to the problem being addressed
- Help identify and leverage metrics to drive product management and measure success
- Build out a design team as we scale

Requirements:
- 5-6 years’ experience in a UX or Product Design role
- A good understanding of UX best practice with interest in the latest design trends
- Fluency with design tools such as Figma, Sketch and Adobe Creative Cloud
- Familiarity with traditional cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud is beneficial
- Experience advocating for users and championing UX principles to internal stakeholders
- Experience using data to create evidence-based design (and on occasions conducting your own research activities)
- A passion for consistency and quality, with experience creating design guidelines
- Fluency of the end-to-end design lifecycle from strategy and conceptualisation to wireframing, UI design, art working and quality checking
- Experience managing user research activities using Human-centered Design or similar

What do we have to offer you?
- Hybrid office / remote-working practices
- Competitive salary and equity
- Learning and Development budget
- 24 days PTO
- Become part of the founding team
- Real career opportunities with opportunity to grow quickly in seniority as the team scales
- Disrupting the industry and being part of the Web3 revolution
- Work colleagues that are as smart, hardworking and driven with backgrounds from FAANG companies and leading universities
- Transparent company culture, open to feedback where you can wear multiple hats at once