Senior Product Designer, API Client (Bay Area)

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+ year