The Company: 

GitKraken makes a suite of legendary Git tools that help developers be more productive – and teams collaborate more closely – wherever they are and wherever they code. GitKraken tools – including the GitKraken Client, and newly acquired GitLens, and Git Integration for Jira  – are used by more than 10 million developers at 100,000 organizations around the world. We help them solve big problems like climate change, space travel, curing disease, education and secure commerce. We’re a rapidly growing tech company that values talent, drive, attitude, and the ability to make a big impact. Join us!

The Role:

GitKraken is looking for an experienced UI/UX Designer to join our product team and contribute to the expanding design needs of our growing organization. In this role, you will work cross-functionally across product leadership and engineering teams to explore new ideas, improve existing products, and refine our design systems. You will provide intuitive, clean, delightful experiences to our user base – and your work will be seen daily by millions of developers around the world. 

What You’ll Do:

• Work cross-functionally with product management, engineering, and design peers.
• Help to refine our visual design strategy, and contribute to the development of internal design systems.
• Design mockups, interactive prototypes, and user flows.
• Define and strategize ways to improve our design processes: from creation and optimization of templates, Figma libraries, and other tools to help communicate and deliver a richer User Experience.
• Participate in user interviews and review customer feedback to gain a deeper understanding of the goals, pain points and expectations of our users.

What You’ll Bring:

• Deep understanding of interaction design patterns and systems, a critical eye for typography and layout, ability to use UX writing effectively, and strong user-centered design methods and techniques. 
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate a problem and proposed solution.
• Prior experience designing and launching powerful, intuitive products, preferably for developers.
• Passion for iteration while giving and receiving constructive feedback.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma (preferred), InVision, and Sketch.
• Working knowledge of HTML & CSS, and an understanding of Git version control.
• Experience contributing to or working with design systems.

What You’ve Done:

• 5+ years professional experience in UI/UX designer – preferably with some serious B2B product design experience
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in interaction design, product design, or UX, or equivalent experience.
• An impressive portfolio that illustrates your design proficiency from concept to completion.

How You’ll Be Rewarded:

• 💵  Excellence — Competitive compensation with annual performance-based pay increases
• 📩  Trust — Flexible Paid-Time-Off Policy (behaves like Unlimited PTO) 
• 🏖  Balance — Paid company holidays with flexibility for additional holidays
• 👶  Parent life — Paid parental leave
• 🍎  Health —  Health, dental, and vision insurance with competitive employer cost-sharing
• 📚  Growth — Paid career and personal development, audiobooks, and mentorship
• 🔮  Future —IRA retirement plan plus company matching
• 🛫  Travel — Company paid domestic trip after your 1-year anniversary & an international trip every 5 yrs

Location:

GitKraken is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona and while we would like to have candidates be local to the Scottsdale office, we understand that talent, drive and attitude are so much more important than location. Thus, we will always consider strong candidates from anywhere in the US.