Staff Product Designer

**_ Relocation and visa sponsorship is possible._**

**What will you work on**:
We’re looking for an **experienced Staff Product Designer** to **own and elevate the design** of everything we build at Stream. In this role, you will drive the end-to-end design strategy and execution for our core products - **from our chat and voice SDKs to our customer dashboard, moderation tools, and public-facing website**. You’ll sit at the intersection of product design and developer experience, ensuring that both app developers and end-users enjoy a **world-class, intuitive experience**.

This role offers significant autonomy and impact: you’ll be **shaping the UX** of tools used by a global developer community and some of the most exciting apps on the market.

**About design at Stream**

At Stream, Design is critical for product development. Our designers work directly alongside engineers, ensuring a tight feedback loop and efficient delivery of impactful solutions. We are committed to building the leading platform for in-app chat, activity feeds, and video/audio experiences, and we recognize that exceptional design is critical to achieving this goal. We empower our designers to make significant contributions to our product, growth, and brand, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

**Responsibilities**:

- ** Lead end-to-end design** for new features and improvements - from **user research and ideation** through prototyping, visual/UI design, and iterative refinement.
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Design the UX of Stream’s core products**, including our **in-app chat and voice/video SDKs**, moderation interfaces, and **customer dashboard**.
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Collaborate closely with engineers** and product managers to ship SDK features, dashboards, onboarding flows, and other customer-facing improvements.
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Shape the public-facing website and docs** to ensure consistency and great UX across all touchpoints.
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Craft clear UX copy and microcopy** that guides and empowers users.
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Drive innovation and excellence in design**: establish best practices and maintain a world-class design system.
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Mentor and collaborate** with other designers to foster a high-performance, user-focused design culture.

**About You**:

- 7+ years of experience in product design, with a strong portfolio showcasing expertise in designing for developers (SDKs, APIs, or developer tools).
- Proven experience designing **complex, technical products** - ideally for developers.
- Mastery of design principles, UX best practices, and design systems.
- Deep understanding of developer workflows and pain points.
- Demonstrated ability to ship high-quality products and drive measurable results.
- A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and a commitment to delivering exceptional user experiences.
- Passion for making **complex technology feel simple and accessible**.

**Our tech stack**:
At Stream, we use a wide collection of technologies to offer highly optimized and available features to our customers. Here is a shortlist of the technology that we currently use:

- Go, gRPC, RocksDB, Python
- Postgresql, RabbitMQ
- AWS, Puppet, CloudFormation
- Grafana, Graphite, ELK, Jaeger
- Redis, Memcached]

**What makes this role exciting?**:

- Direct impact in shaping the future of developer tools used by companies building with Stream
- Small (6 people), high-trust team with fewer roadblocks, tremendous autonomy and a chance to see your ideas make a material impact on the growth of the business
- You’ll solve meaningful problems for a technical audience that values elegant solutions
- You’ll get access to the tools you need to be successful
- Travel to Boulder for regular collaboration

**Why join Stream?**:

- ** History of success.** From Amsterdam to Boulder and Techstars in-between, Stream has raised over $58.25M to build the best Chat Messaging & Activity Feed infrastructure available, with best-in-class support.
- ** Freedom and endless growth opportunities.** As a rapidly growing startup (since 2020 we have gone from 30 to 150 employees), Stream gives you unique personal and professional growth opportunities. The opportunity of true ownership and accountability has a massive impact on your career. These are the things you can rarely experience in huge corporations.
- ** Be on the front line of progress and innovation.** While working with cutting-edge technology, we are passionate about tackling difficult tech problems at scale and creating reusable components for them, empowering engineering teams to ship apps faster, more securely, and with a better user experience.
- ** They believe in us**: Stream is backed by leading VC companies (Felicis Ventures, GGV Capital, 01.Advisors, Techstars, Arthur Ventures), including backers like Dick Costolo (01 Advisors, ex-CEO of Twitter), Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog), Tom Preston-Werner (Co-Founder of GitHub), Nicolas Dessaigne (Co-Founder of Algolia), Johnny Boufarhat (Founder and CEO of Hopin).

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