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Depot · 3 months ago

Principal Design Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$200K/yr - $250K/yr

7+ years exp

Depot is on a mission to redefine software collaboration and accelerate developers everywhere. They are seeking a Principal Design Engineer to advance their mission by delivering high-quality design solutions and collaborating closely with engineering teams and customers.

Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSoftwareSoftware Engineering

Responsibilities

You will pair closely with engineering and founders to initiate and deliver roadmap projects hands-on

You will communicate with existing Depot customers and users to better understand where the overall design could be better, and then you’ll build the solution

Identify opportunities to redesign key screens and various flows to enhance the overall product, addressing both major issues and minor paper cut types that Depot users encounter

Create mockups, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals to communicate ideas and describe their execution

Implement a lightweight design system of components to allow others to implement your overall vision of product design for Depot

Help with hiring new team members who can help push Depot’s team and product forward

Qualification

Software design experiencePrototyping with FigmaTechnical discussionsHTML/CSSCommunication skillsSelf-starterCollaboration skills

Required

7+ years of experience designing software

Must be a self-starter who is excited about hard challenges and is comfortable working in an environment with ambiguity at times

Ability to take complex problems and feedback, then distill them down to design clear and focused solutions

Capable of asking questions, experimenting, and advocating for what you feel is right

Experience prototyping ideas with tools like Figma (and beyond using AI, HTML/CSS, etc)

A strong desire for ownership, you should be able to both define goals & execute on them from idea to measurement

Strong written and verbal communication skills & comfort collaborating with colleagues asynchronously across time zones – much of our work is async

Company

Depot

Depot is a build acceleration and developer productivity platform that speeds up container builds and GitHub Actions runners by up to 40x.

Founded in 2022

Beaverton, Oregon, USA

2-10 employees

https://depot.dev

Funding

Current Stage

Early Stage

Total Funding

$5.9M

Key Investors

FelicisY Combinator

2024-08-22Seed· $4.1M

2023-07-24Seed· $1.8M

2023-04-05Pre Seed

Leadership Team

Kyle Galbraith

Co-Founder & CEO

Jacob Gillespie

Co-Founder

Recent News

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