Senior Product Designer, Akash Network
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Distributed peer-to-peer marketplace for cloud computing
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Distributed peer-to-peer marketplace for cloud computing
21-100 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
Akash Network's mission is to facilitate a world where cloud computing is permissionless, sovereign, and open through its decentralized peer-to-peer cloud computing marketplace.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of product design work experience
- 5+ years of product design experience with B2B SaaS products that are of deeply technical nature
- Expert level knowledge of common design patterns, tools and frameworks
- Expert level knowledge of common UX research patterns and techniques
- Intermediate understanding of user personas within cloud practitioner, web developer and DevOps engineers
- Intermediate understanding of Product-Led-Growth (PLG) strategies as they relate to product design
- Experience using Github
- Working understanding of cloud services like AWS, GCP and Azure
- Working understanding of the differences between IaaS and PaaS services as well general workflows of each
- Familiarity with CI/ CD workflows, monitoring and observability
- Willingness to work “in the open” (Akash Network is “radically open source”)
- Ability and willingness to play around with new developer tools as a way of building knowledge and inspiration for designs
Desirable
- Current or recent experience as a designer at a cloud infrastructure, cloud services or PaaS company
- High level understanding of how web services and applications work
- Familiarity with microservices and container based applications
What the job involves
- As a Sr. Product Designer at Overclock Labs, you will work closely with the product and engineering teams to design the user experience and interfaces that will be used by our customers and partners
- This includes, working on UX and design for Akash Deployment Console (UI), Provider Console (UI) and Command-Line-Interface design (CLI) as well as contributing to design of some web and documentation assets that connect to the products - like the GPU pricing page, the stats page, API pages and more (that we haven’t even conceived of yet!)
- Our Stack:
- Designs are currently done primarily in Figma, and Tailwinds is used for UI components
- Golang, JavaScript, Kubernetes & Docker are other key technologies used
Our take
The networking infrastructure that powers the way digital applications are designed has changed dramatically over the last decade, with recent innovations including cloud computing and blockchain technology. Combining these technologies can lead to the launching of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, blockchain networks, and other innovative digital products, but achieving this can be complicated, time-consuming, and expensive.
Overseen my parent company Overclock Labs, Akash Network provides a distributed peer-to-peer marketplace for cloud computing that allows developers to launch DeFi applications rapidly. The software allows pre-developed applications to be packaged in containers with predetermined prices and resource requirements, helping cloud-native, decentralized and serverless apps to be deployed at rapid speeds and at lower costs.
Whilst the solutions that Akash Network provides can already be achieved by software engineers with expertise in cloud computing and blockchain technology, the company recognized that cheaper, simpler, and faster solutions are required for the Web3 vision to scale. The company hopes that its ecosystem will disrupt the centralized cloud platform market, making decentralized apps easier to develop and more consumable.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2017
$1.3m
SEED
Total funding: $1.3m
Company benefits
- Solve Big Problems - Impact the future of the Internet, and solve problems that have never been solved before
- Growth Opportunities - Achieve your development goals faster with personalized growth opportunities
- Work Anywhere - Manage your own work location, and your own time
- Real Unlimited Time Off - Relax and recharge when you need to, for real
Company values
- Sovereignty - Control over our future and our outcomes
- Openness - Open, transparent, and fair to others
- Equality - Equal opportunities for everyone
- Empathy - Seek to understand and connect
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Greg Osuri
(CEO)Experience as Lead Architect for Marketron from 2011 to 2013. Founder and CTO of AngelHack from 2011 to 2013.
Adam Bozanich
(CTO)Experience as Lead Software Architect of CHNL, Inc. Co-founder and Tech Lead for Sprouts Tech from 2014 to 2016.
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