Senior Product Designer, API Client (Bay Area) - San Francisco

The Opportunity

We are looking for a designer who understands engineering practices and is familiar with APIs to work on Postman’s API Client, the core, beating heart of the Postman experience.

Postman API client is designed to make working with APIs a breeze across API technologies like HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket and more. Teams of all sizes love the API client because it is powerful, flexible and, most importantly, easy to use! However, our work is not done as we continue our mission to make working with APIs simpler, more delightful and collaborative. As a designer on the team, your role will be crucial in shaping this future and keeping Postman as the best tool to work with APIs.

A designer on the API client team is expected to harness an end-to-end understanding of the API landscape and help expand Postman’s business foothold within it. So, you will be working with and learning from the engineers, product experts, and, needless to say, other designers on the team to craft the ultimate client experience. You will be an integral part of the team and work with others, complementing their strengths and weaknesses.

Who are we

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 35 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster.

The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on Twitter via @getpostman.

P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate closely with engineers to understand the product from a developer’s perspective, designing solutions that resonate with our user base.
• Ideate, prototype, and deliver on a vision for the future of Postman’s API client interface, driving towards a simplified, elegant, and intuitive user experience.
• Shape the development deliverables and work with the team to iterate and bring the designs to production—not in a waterfall process but in a dynamic, collaborative mode of operation.
• Own end-to-end workflows, driving improvement in key workflows like API design, prototyping, testing and documentation.
• Design just the right amount—simplify the most complex workflow to the last detail without harming its familiarity.
• Think like a developer and deeply understand our users, ensuring that every feature and interaction delights and enhances their experience.
• Define the future of API design by helping establish patterns and practices that will become commonplace across the API-first industry. Postman is the market leader, and that means our work becomes commonplace in the industry several years down the road as we build the future.

Traits that define you

• Cross-disciplinary learner. We expect you to work with and learn from experts from various domains and not just ‘Design’. We believe it to be the only way to build great products. So, you should be looking forward to permeating the boundaries of design and function as a ‘product builder’ in the team.
• Love for complexity. We often work on vague and technically complex problems involving complex technologies. So, you must be comfortable getting into the nitty gritty and crafting interfaces that simplify them for everyone. 
• Customer-obsessed. You’re passionate about understanding the user’s needs and pain points, particularly the unique demands of a developer-first audience. Postman is to developers building the API-first world as a hammer is to a builder. It’s a highly specific, personal tool choice where our decisions impact the lives of our users.
• Collaborative. Most of the other teams at Postman build their capabilities on top of the API client. So, you should be able to understand and work with them on their problem space and guide them with our design ethos.
• Detail oriented. You care about every interaction, workflow, and pixel (in that order!). Your goal is to make Postman’s API client exceed the expectations of our core developer persona, who is highly particular and cares about the details of their tools.
• Self-directed. You can take a concept from inception to completion and generate buy-in for work from small details to big bets and everything in between. 

You must have

• 4+ years of experience as a product designer or interaction designer, with a track record of owning and delivering impactful product experiences.
• Experience or desire to work directly with engineering teams in an embedded capacity—no design silos here.
• Expertise in design tools like Figma, with a strong understanding of front-end development principles to bridge the gap between design and engineering.
• A portfolio that demonstrates your ability to work on technically complex products and design delightful user experiences.

Nice to have

• Experience working on developer tools or technical products.
• Experience working as a developer or an engineer in the past.

Our values

At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency & honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.

What else?

If the role is based in the greater San Francisco area, and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $XX to $YY, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition to our pay-on-performance philosophy, we offer a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. Salaries will vary outside of the listed metropolitan areas & the U.S.

Equal opportunity

Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.