Job Description

Hello, we are Atlan! \xf0\x9f\x91\x8bA home for data teams around the world. \xf0\x9f\x8f\xa0 Think what Github did for Engineering Teams or Figma did for Design Teams ( , , )Our Story: Built for the humans of data, by the humans of dataAt Atlan, we started as a data team ourselves tackling problems like national-level healthcare and poverty alleviation with data science ( ; )The problem: That's how we learnt how tough it was to scale data teams. Data teams are the most interdisciplinary teams ever created: Analysts, Scientists, Engineers, Business; Diverse people with their own tooling preferences and skillsets and "DNA" that need to come together and collaborate effectively. Leading to collaboration chaos.We would be awoken with crisis calls every second day for the minutest of issues - from troubleshooting why a number on a dashboard is incorrect to getting access to the right dataset! Atlan started as us building small tools to make our own data team more agile.Over a couple of years, we made our team 6X more agile and went on to do amazing things like build India's National Data Platform used by its Prime Minister. (data for 500M citizens, built by an 8-member team, fastest project of its kind to go live - in 12 months instead of projected 3 years)\xf0\x9f\x92\xa1 Could the tooling we built for ourselves help data teams around the world? That's how Atlan was born. We're on the mission to help data teams around the world do their lives\' best work.Read our cofounder, and our journey of We're growing fastWe\'ve grown 16X in just the last 6 months \xf0\x9f\x93\x88We were named a Gartner Cool Vendor in DataOps, one of the Top 3 companies globally (one of the fastest companies to make the list \xf0\x9f\x8c\x8f)We're backed by iconic investors, including Sequoia Capital, Waterbridge Ventures and Mr. Ratan Tata \xf0\x9f\x8f\x85Watch this 3-minute video of (in conversation with Sequoia Capital).We build with all our \xe2\x9d\xa4\xef\xb8\x8fWe believe that data teams deserve fundamentally better software experiences... Just because data is chaos, doesn\'t mean that work should be! At Atlan, we are on an important mission to help data teams to do their lives\' best work. We believe that when data teams become more productive and agile, they will go on to do amazing things - from helping humankind get to Mars to maybe, finding the cure for cancer someday. Every Atlanian is committed to giving the best customer and user experience possible to the humans of data.As a product designer at Atlan, you\'ll be a part of our fast-growing designer and product team, and get to collaborate with and learn from a talented bunch of designers, product managers, engineers and customer-facing folks who are committed to building a better data culture in data teams across the world.Love what Superhuman, Slack, Notion, Quip & Figma have done for the modern workplace? Come build the future for data teams with Atlan.\xf0\x9f\x8c\x8f This is a remote, full-time role and can be held anywhere in the world. We're fully remote since 2020, and our team is spread out across time zones.Your mission at Atlan \xf0\x9f\x8f\xa1

• Understand the domain, users, and technology of the product area(s) you work on deeply, and proactively understand the broader product.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and work on identifying, defining, and solving user experience issues that have the highest complexity and scope in the product.
• Own and mature the design processes at Atlan end to end - from concepts, user flows and wireframes to visuals, and shipping of the feature and impact validation - and design deliverables that raise the bar of craft and quality of Atlan's user experience
• Participate in our design critique sessions and mentor designers across pods and help them benefit from your expertise and experience.
• Collaborate with the other designers and frontend team to create and maintain reusable design components and tokens, thus contributing to Atlan's design system, components & asset library.
• Participate in recruiting - conducting portfolio reviews, whiteboard challenges, and contributing towards hiring related assets and establishing the brand of Atlan's design team in the community.
• Help improve and evangelize the design culture within Atlan!

What makes you a match for us? \xf0\x9f\x98\x8d

• You enjoy learning continuously and can absorb complex domain-related concepts quickly and effectively. Databases, querying, lineage, etc will soon become the jargon you\'ll have to speak and understand to truly care for end users of Atlan.
• You\'ll stand out if you have an understanding of the data ecosystem
• You bring at least 10+ years of experience in designing & shipping consumer-grade enterprise products or complex web applications that end users and customers love. Experience working in the data domain will be an added bonus.
• You\'ve got a portfolio of work that shows us your product design & strategy skills from concept to visual design execution
• You obsess over craft and love creating intuitive and beautiful products and experiences.
• You have worked in fast paced design teams in growth stage teams, and don\'t shy away from taking initiative to mature existing processes, culture, and team rituals to build a world-class design team.
• You can communicate effectively and work autonomously - it will be much needed in a remote setup!
• You do not wait for instructions and guidelines but believe in taking end-to-end ownership of things - to do the right thing for our end users.

What you will get \xe2\x9a\xbd

• An environment where you're surrounded by talented, driven and yet humble folks, focused on creating the best experience for data teams around the world
• Freedom to work remotely from anywhere in the world
• Ownership of a product module, its user experience and impact end to end in a product that is focused on becoming the home for data teams, just as Figma became the home for design teams and Github became the home for engineering teams
• Company of people that value our culture very highly - you\'ll be inundated with books, learning recommendations, knowledge-sharing sessions and pictures of pets in their dedicated Slack channels! \xf0\x9f\x90\x95\xf0\x9f\x90\x88

Do your life's best work at Atlan At Atlan, our mission is to help data teams do their life's best work. Inside Atlan, our goal is to help Atlanians do their lives\' best work while at Atlan and reach their .We\'d normally invite potential Atlanians to our office to meet our team and understand our culture, but given the global pandemic, we\'ve opened up our internal team handbook which is a great read about our values and principles, how we think about growth and internal practices as we build a dream team.- | |Excited about the opportunity? Apply now! \xf0\x9f\x91\x87

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