Overview

We are looking for an experienced UI Designer with a strong mind for user experience who wants to design the future of Kibana.

Philosophy

Designing for highly technical products is uniquely challenging. It requires thoroughly-honed skills in interaction design and a keen sense of how people should use our UIs grounded by an inherent sense of empathy for users. We also care deeply about giving you full ownership of what you’re working on. Our company fundamentally believes great minds achieve greatness when they are set free and are supported and challenged by their peers, which is clearly visible in our organization. We feel that everyone should be welcome to comment on absolutely anything, regardless of their role within the company.

Responsibilities

  • Design user interfaces with the best tool for the task, whether it’s Sketch, InvisionApp, CSS, HTML, or directly in the browser
  • Maintain and evolve the design of our UI component framework
  • Design new visualizations to help present/make sense of complicated data aggregations
  • Help determine product requirements in collaboration with people throughout Elastic
  • Communicate goals, ideas, and rationales behind design decisions
  • Create and integrate UX design standards into a consistent user experience
  • Review GitHub PRs and provide design feedback to the team

Qualifications

  • A strong portfolio that showcases UI/UX design skills for highly technical applications
  • Strong understanding and experience building HTML/CSS/JS applications
  • 7+ years experience working with large scale applications
  • Solid understanding of usability principles and user-centered design
  • Familiarity with usability research methodologies
  • Ability to work well with engineers, product managers, and other designers
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively
  • Ability to communicate design rationale and build consensus
  • Ability to develop new approaches to complex design problems
  • Must be organized, have an eye for detail, and be able to put ideas into a tangible form
  • Strong preference for people that have led design initiatives and teams for technical products

Additional Information

  • Extremely competitive pay, medical, dental, vision, disability, benefits
  • Stock options
  • Catered lunches, snacks, and beverages in most offices
  • An environment in which you can balance great work with a great life
  • Passionate people building great products
  • Employees with a wide variety of interests
  • Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
  • Distributed-first company with employees in over 30 countries, spread across 18 time zones, and speaking over 30 languages! Some even fly south for the winter 🙂

About Elastic

Elastic is on a mission to make real-time data exploration easy and available to anyone. As the company behind the popular open source projects Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, we're looking to hire team members invested in realizing this goal.

Founded in 2012 in Amsterdam by the people behind Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene, Elastic set forth a vision that search can solve a plethora of data problems. The origins of the company start back in 2010 when Shay Banon wrote the first lines of Elasticsearch and open sourced it as a distributed search engine.

With the rise of cloud computing and changes in IT infrastructure demanding requirements such as real-time search across infinite amounts of structured and unstructured data, Shay foresaw the need for a new type of software to solve today’s real-world data problems. Steven Schuurman, Uri Boness, and Simon Willnauer shared in Shay’s vision, joining forces to create the Elastic company we have today.

Since then, the creators of Kibana, Logstash, and Beats have joined the Elastic family, rounding out a product portfolio known as the Elastic Stack, which is used by millions of developers around the world. The Elastic family unites employees across 32 countries into one coherent team, while the broader community spans across over 100 countries.