Product Designer

About This Role

Were seeking a Product Designer whos excited about crafting high quality tools that developers love. Youll design the experiences that help engineering teams generate maintain and work with APIs at scale. This role is perfect for someone whos curious about technical problem spaces and passionate about making complex workflows feel simple delightful and productive.

At Speakeasy were building the tools that transform how teams approach API development - from code generation and SDK creation to API documentation and MCP. Youll be designing experiences that need to work seamlessly across complex technical workflows while keeping the user experience intuitive and enjoyable.

What Youll Do

Product Strategy & Vision

Own the end-to-end design process from requirements gathering to implementation-ready deliverables

Contribute to strategic direction and product vision through user research and market analysis

Develop deep understanding of how developers work with APIs and what makes their workflows successful

Identify opportunities to improve developer productivity through observation data analysis and user feedback

Design Excellence

Think through complex UX UI and interaction challenges to find best-in-class solutions

Create high-fidelity designs prototypes and flows

Design experiences that balance power and simplicity for technical audiences

Help build and maintain our design system

User Research & Discovery

Conduct user research with engineering teams to understand their workflows and pain points

Learn about the problem space through customer interviews usability testing and data analysis

Translate technical requirements into user-centered design solutions

Develop empathy for developers day-to-day challenges with API development and tooling

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner closely with engineering / product teams to bring designs to life

Participate in design critiques and engineering handoffs to ensure the finished article is of a high quality

Present design concepts and rationale to stakeholders across the organization

Work collaboratively with engineers who are passionate about building great developer experiences

What Were Looking For

Core Experience

3-5 years of product design experience ideally with B2B or technical products

Strong portfolio demonstrating your design process from research to final implementation

Experience designing tools or platforms where user workflows are complex

Track record of simplifying complicated processes through thoughtful design

Mindset & Approach

Curiosity and eagerness to learn about technical problem spaces - you dont need to be a developer but you should be excited to understand how developers work

Strong user research skills and genuine interest in understanding customer needs

Ability to ask the right questions and dig deep into problem spaces youre unfamiliar with

Comfort with ambiguity and ability to navigate complex product challenges

Design Skills

Proficiency in modern design tools (Figma Sketch or similar)

Experience with prototyping and creating interactive flows

Strong visual design skills and attention to detail

Understanding of design systems and component-based design

Collaboration

Excellent communication skills for working with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Ability to advocate for user needs while balancing technical constraints

Experience working in cross-functional teams

Open to feedback and comfortable iterating on designs

Bonus Points

Experience designing for developer audiences or technical products

Working knowledge of Git / GitHub for collaboration with engineering

Understanding of API concepts or developer workflows

Front-end development skills or ability to prototype in code

Animation and micro-interaction design capabilities

Experience with infrastructure or platform products

Why Join Speakeasy

Youll be designing products that become essential tools in developers daily workflows. Were building foundational infrastructure that engineering teams depend on meaning your design work has real lasting impact on how developers build and maintain their APIs.

We value curiosity customer obsession and the desire to truly understand the problems were solving. You dont need to be an engineer but youll work alongside a team thats passionate about making technical work more enjoyable and productive. Well support your learning journey as you dive into the fascinating world of API tooling and developer experience.

Key Skills

InVision,Interaction Design,Ux,Usability,Visual Design,Design Thinking,Zeplin,User Research,UI,IOS,Figma,Sketch

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1