Senior UX Designer (Data Products)

At JetBrains, code is our passion. Ever since we started, back in 2000, we have strived to make the strongest, most effective developer tools on earth. By automating routine checks and corrections, our tools speed up production, freeing developers to grow, discover, and create.

DataGrip is a multi-engine database environment from JetBrains that supports all popular relational databases. It is targeted at professional SQL developers.

We are currently looking for a UI/UX Designer to coordinate with product teams and help us make our UI and UX even better. Nearly any software development project has databases under the hood, so the audience for this product is broad! The decisions you'll make will affect millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Design new user interfaces and enhance existing ones.
• Work with the UX Research team to plan user research.
• Assist with the implementation of your UI/UX solutions.
• Work closely with the product team that includes developers, product managers, QA, and colleagues in other roles.
• Communicate with users and participate in UX research.
• Work with analytics to monitor changes and generate hypotheses for improving the user experience.

Basic Qualifications

• At least three years of experience in UI/UX design.
• A willingness to dive into complex topics related to databases.
• The ability to prototype, verify, present, and provide reasoning for your UI/UX solutions.
• Knowledge of Figma.
• Diligence and attention to detail.
• Spoken and written English sufficient for everyday communication and writing documentation.
• Proactivity, independence, and strong time management skills.
• The ability to work in a team and seek feedback to improve your solutions and processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with any database system: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Experience designing complex functional interfaces.
• Knowledge of desktop operating system guidelines.
• Experience creating desktop applications.

Our teams:

You will be working with two teams: the DataGrip team and the IntelliJ UX team.

The DataGrip team has 12 members, including 6 developers. The team is flexible, independent, and informal in how they work. They care about their team culture and work hard supporting and developing it.

The IntelliJ UX team unites designers working on all IDEs based on the IntelliJ platform, including DataGrip. The design team helps keep things consistent, shares design principles and patterns, and uses a common design library.