CloudBees is powering the continuous economy by offering the world’s first end-to-end continuous software delivery management system (SDM). For millions of developers and product teams driving innovation for businesses large or small, SDM builds on continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to enable all functions and teams within and around the software delivery organization to best work together to amplify value creation.
CloudBees is the continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and application release automation (ARA) powerhouse built from the commercial success of its products and its open source leadership as the largest contributor to Jenkins and a founding member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). With a globally distributed workforce of more than 500 employees, the company reflects the global nature of the DevOps movement. We believe in walking the talk! From startups with full-stack developers practicing NoOps to large Fortune 100 companies, CloudBees enables all software-driven organizations to intelligently deploy the right capabilities at the right time.
Over 3,500 of the world’s best known brands and over 50% of the Fortune 500, invest in CloudBees because of its ability to work across any cloud, in any development environment and to balance corporate governance and control with developer flexibility and freedom.
CloudBees is home to the world’s leading DevOps experts helping thousands of companies harness the power of continuous everything and putting them on the fastest path from great idea, to great software, to great business value.
Working at CloudBees
Because CloudBees is a fully distributed company, it is able to draw on a global talent pool and maintain a very high bar for intellect, technical skill and most importantly work culture. Nearly every Bee has chosen to work at CloudBees because of a personal conviction of the transformative power of continuous delivery practices in every function in software development. This leads to a sense of shared mission and mutual respect that makes CloudBees a truly special place to work.
What you will do
At CloudBees you’ll join a strong team of designers that is mission-critical to CloudBees’ success. We believe in the value of design thinking in every stage of a project, from initial research to delivery and iteration.
As a Senior UX Designer, you will have a chance to shape not only our product but also our design process and culture.
Utilize design thinking methodologies from empathy to rapid prototyping to arrive at creative, intuitive end-to-end experiences
Leverage and/or conduct user research to inform design decisions and evaluate your designs
Clearly and effectively communicate ideas, research findings, sketches, and other deliverables to the business and leadership
Design and deliver user stories, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and UI specifications in an agile and collaborative environment.
Move between making strategic and tactical design decisions regularly to devise elegant solutions within a complex business domain
Communicate a strong point of view informed by customer insights, design principles, and industry trends yet hold it only loosely.
Establish and manage relationships with key stakeholders including product managers, marketing, and engineering teams to align with and achieve business objectives
Give and solicit feedback from other designers in order to continually raise the bar for design quality and collaborate across the Design team to ensure consistency and transparency
Create the interfaces that some of the world’s largest brands depend on – Adobe, Invision, Capital One, Citrix, Accenture ~50% of fortune 500 companies use our technology to build their own.
What the role requires
6+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, product designer, or similar, leading and delivering comprehensive and elegant end-to-end solutions within a complex business environment.
Proven experience designing technical SaaS products with large feature sets or complex dashboards
Proven ability to collaborate with other designers, developers, and stakeholders to transform complex technical problems into beautiful, simple user experiences.
Experience with conducting user research and usability testing
Self-motivated and able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Fully proficient in English written and spoken language
Strong communication skills, including the ability to articulate decisions and problem statements to stakeholders, customers, and other team members
Ability to work effectively in a remote environment, across time-zones; including experience presenting work to team members and stakeholders remotely and/or asynchronously
Extensive experience designing within a design system and maintaining good file hygiene while working within a team of other designers
Strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in SaaS application design, attention to detail, and strong experience with end to end design presentation
Please have examples that explore the development of a solution at different stages in the creative process (e.g. discovery, sketches, wireframes, layouts, prototypes, validation, etc.)
Please have examples of using testing or research to determine design direction and how you made an impact on a KPI
Basic understanding of html + css
Experience with project tracking tools such as Jira
Bonus:
Experience/knowledge of CI & CD tools such as Jenkins, CodeShip, Circle, Travis, or GitLab.
Experience with development tools such as Git, GitHub, and features like branching, forking, reverting, PRs, etc.
Proficiency with HTML, CSS, SASS
Understanding of JavaScript, and frameworks like jQuery, React, & Vue.
Understanding of the software development workflows
What You’ll Get
Highly competitive benefits and vacation package including stock options
Ability to work for one of the fastest-growing companies with some of the most talented people in the industry
Fun, hardworking, and casual environment with the flexibility to work anywhere in the world the team is almost fully distributed around the globe (We also have several great office locations!)
At CloudBees, we truly believe that the more diverse we are, the better we serve our customers. A global community like Jenkins demands a global focus from CloudBees. Organizations with greater diversity gender, racial, ethnic, and global are stronger partners to their customers. Whether by creating more innovative products, or better understanding our worldwide customers, or establishing a stronger cross-section of cultural leadership skills, diversity strengthens all aspects of the CloudBees organization.
In the technology industry, diversity creates a competitive advantage. CloudBees customers demand technologies from us that solve their software development, and therefore their business problems, so that they can better serve their own customers. CloudBees attributes much of its success to its worldwide work force and commitment to global diversity, which opens our proprietary software to innovative ideas from anywhere. Along the way, we have witnessed firsthand how employees, partners, and customers with diverse perspectives and experiences contribute to creative problem solving and better solutions for our customers and their businesses.
