Product Designer, Metabase
Open-source Business Intelligence tool
Open for applications
Open-source Business Intelligence tool
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
Make an easy, open source way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.
Role
Who you are
- Are able to handle enterprise-level complexity, but with the skills to deliver solutions with consumer-grade simplicity and elegance
- Have 5+ years of experience designing Web or SaaS applications in complex or technical spaces like dev tools, data visualization, biotech, etc
- Are curious, eager, and able to understand the technical underpinnings of a problem in service of finding elegant solutions
- Seek solutions to root causes rather than applying UI band-aids and knobs
- Don't allow "perfect" to be the enemy of "great," and are biased towards shipping in order to learn and deliver value
- Know that requesting and giving feedback are the best way to up-level their work and others’
- Are excited to work asynchronously with a global team
- Experience designing fairly technical and deep Web applications
- Able to consistently deliver beautiful, thoughtful final designs
- Strong ability to craft clear narratives and paint a vision that builds understanding and alignment within a team
- Can break down complex problems into smaller parts and find ways to sequence and ship things incrementally and iteratively
- Possess a mature design process that focuses on identifying core user problems, and exploring novel and distinct ways to solve them
- Strong written communication skills to aid in requesting feedback, explaining explorations, and defining designs
What the job involves
- Owning design projects from initial solution explorations to shipping the final, beautiful thing side-by-side with engineers
- Developing deep understanding of our users and their problems from qualitative and quantitative data
- Proactively finding and proposing ways to make every part of the product more joyful to use
- Making decisions that directly impact the happiness and productivity of scores of people around the world
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Metabase is at the crest of a third wave of Business Intelligence tools: first centralized enterprise architectures like SAP, then self-service tools like Tableau and Looker and now cloud-based, open-source tools like Metabase.
Its open-source nature has helped Metabase reach 98 million downloads. Metabase makes money by offering a number of professional services like managed hosting, support, and assistance with implementing Metabase in a custom analytics or business intelligence setup.
The company is doubling down on its documentation and sales team to help onboard less experienced users and scale beyond their current user base of over 30,000 companies. The challenge for the startup will be capturing significant revenue while sticking to their open-source principles.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$30m
SERIES B
Apr 2019
$8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $38m
Company benefits
- Remote-first
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Sameer Al-Sakran
(CEO)Graduated from Stanford with an MS in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics. Worked as a Software Engineer and Genetic Programming researcher before founding a Facebook Ad Tools startup in 2010. Worked with multiple VCs and startup studios, lastly Expa from which Metabase was spun out of.
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