Product Designer, Glean
Design Systems
$162-250k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Enterprise search and knowledge management
Open for applications
Enterprise search and knowledge management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$162-250k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring people the knowledge they need to make a difference in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience as a design systems or product designer at a digital product company, contributing/leading the design and visual execution of product experiences. At least 3 years of design systems experience is required
- Ability to design polished pixel-perfect UI components in Figma and create thorough documentation and guidance on how and why components, styles and patterns are applied
- Expertise in Figma, Storybook, WCAG compliance, and other design systems tools
- A portfolio of strong visual design, interaction design, design systems, and product design work
- Strong systems thinking skills to create scalable and reusable design solutions across the whole Glean ecosystem
- Strong written, verbal, and storytelling skills to educate others about the design system, demonstrate its value, and train designers and developers to use it effectively
- The ability to break down problems, work within constraints, make quick decisions based on sound rationale and feedback, and iterate rapidly
- Experience collaborating with different disciplines and incorporating feedback into your work
- Thrive in ambiguity and can independently prioritize work based on user needs and business goals, and take responsibility to drive product ideas forward
- Ability to think systematically about problems given tradeoffs and constraints, and go deep on details through continual rapid iteration
- A learning and growth mindset with an ability to self-start on problems, a willingness to own problems, and a desire to make things better
What the job involves
- Glean is looking for an experienced Product Designer on our design systems team to help define the future of work
- You’ll maintain our design system in Figma and enable others to contribute high-quality components to our design system as well
- As a Product Designer on design systems, you’ll be joining an experienced, tight-knit, and collaborative group of folks who love combining research, data, intuition, and best practices into a user-centered design process
- You’ll have an outsized impact on the product, used across hundreds of companies across many different industries, and an incredible opportunity to shape the system of intelligence for every company in the world
- Design and maintain the components, documentation, and usage guidelines for Glean’s design system and component library in Figma
- Collaborate with product designers and software engineers to develop the building blocks needed to create high-quality, accessible user experiences
- Evolve our design system and establish best practices as a means to scale and uplevel the quality, consistency, and craft of our product
- Drive cross-functional team enablement initiatives that champion accessibility and high-quality, reusable components
- Evolve the visual design of Glean
Our take
Glean is an intuitive digital assistant which allows employees to search across all their apps and find the information and tools that they need more quickly.
With so many SaaS apps being used by modern day companies, overwhelm and inefficiency inevitably enter the equation. Glean’s search engine is proving popular for how it unifies and centralizes all these distributed tools and data.
It’s been quite a start to life at Glean, having only emerged from stealth in 2021, it received a $1 Billion valuation in early 2022, thus achieving unicorn status, and has received nearly $400 million in funding so far. The SaaS platform is already used by some major companies including Grammarly, databricks, and Rubrik.
That Glean was co-founded by a quartet with senior experience at Google, Microsoft, Uber, and Facebook stands the company in good stead. However, it’s the fact that its search engine is solving a new, but very real problem in the workplace that’s seen its popularity surge so quickly, which it’s likely to continue to do in the future. Its adaptability to include new AI capabilities to its platform, such as generative AI, has Glean well set to see further growth.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2024
$260m
SERIES E
Feb 2024
$200m
SERIES D
Total funding: $655m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision for you and yours
- Competitive compensation and stock options
- 401k contribution
- Flexible work (3 days a week in the office), though we believe in folks working where they can be most effective
- Company events, from weekly happy hours to our annual company retreat
- Flexible hours, unlimited PTO, and company-wide winter break shutdown
- Transparent culture
- Learning and development stipend
- Free meals with lunch and dinner options every day
Company values
- One together – We leave our egos behind to forge a trusting, inclusive, and transparent environment
- Customer obsessed – We relentlessly work to solve customer problems and focus on product quality and excellence
- Owners – We take responsibility for our company, product, and culture, leaving things in a better state
- Think big, start small – We dream big and solve hard problems through continuous learning and rapid iteration
- Beyond boundaries – We are eager to learn and grow. We help each other thrive and aren’t afraid to try new things
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
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Leadership
Arvind Jain
(CEO)Former Engineer at Google and Microsoft. Is the co-founder of high growth startup Rubrik, which delivers data security and operational resilience for enterprises.
Piyush Prahladka
(Software Engineer)Prior to joining the co-founding team at Glean, they worked as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, then as an Engineering Lead at Uber.
Tony Gentilcore
(Product Engineering Lead)Former Developer at At&T and TJC Labs. For ten years, served as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, including a spell as Founder and Tech Lead / Manager of the Chrome Speed Team.
TR Vishwanath
(Engineering Lead)Before co-founding Glean, was a Principal Software Engineer at Facebook after spending eight years at Microsoft as a Software Design Engineer, then Principal Development Lead.
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