Today, video accounts for over 80% of all internet traffic! 🤯
We are increasingly living in a video-first world where our online experiences are dominated by real-time, streaming, and on-demand video.
At api.video our mission is to connect people through their cameras and videos. We are a global API-first platform managing and delivering online video at scale and our goal is to become the standard for how modern teams bring video experiences into their products and services.
Just like Stripe for payments, Twilio for text/VOIP, and Sendgrid for email; we’re making video accessible to every client and developer via our api, the world over.
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What’s the opportunity?
We’re looking for a passionate Product Designer contractor to own major parts of the api.video experience. api.video is recognized for its end-to-end video API experience, and this role will continue to shepherd api.video’s best-in-class video API capabilities, while identifying opportunities for innovation within our product.
You’ll work in agile and cross-functional teams focusing on creating a unique experience for users of our dev tool.
You will play an essential role in the company’s growth and product development plans to achieve our goal of helping product builders integrate video into their tools.
You have experience in creating excellent user experiences for SaaS dashboards and contributing to diverse design supports to the Marketing team.
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What you will be doing?
- Manage design best practices and lay the foundations for our product for years to come.
- Design delightful experiences on our website and dashboard, that give people the confidence, context, and understanding to start using api.video’s products.
- Provide designs and thorough support for any marketing or branding project, for example, illustrations, Blog covers, social, emails, landing pages.
- Ensure brand design consistency across all our channels.
- Take a learn-through-experimentation approach to both customer problems and business needs.
- Work cross-functionally with Data, Growth, Product, and Engineering partners to give feedback in critique, road mapping, and product discussions.
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What do we offer?
- A flexible working day; we are results over presence oriented.
- Work from anywhere in Europe; whether it’s at the comfort of your own home, our office in Bordeaux or at a co-working space.
- Personal growth; we invest in your career development, you will have up to 1,000EUR per year of allowance for any trainings, events, and/or materials that can help you further develop your skillset.
- A functional workstation setup at home; we contribute to the purchase of equipment.
- Moments of cohesion with your team organized throughout the year either virtually or physically.
- As you’ll be contributing to the company’s success, we offer stocks.
What are we looking for?
- Contractor able to work full-time
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Designer in tech companies
- Experience in working for a SaaS product and in an early-stage start-up
- Expertise in building and delivering best-in-class dashboard experience
- An online portfolio of technical product design work that demonstrates an eye for detail and craftsmanship, critical thinking, and innovative problem-solving
- Follow current UX/UI patterns and best-practices, and you know how to apply or adjust them for tech tools
- Comfortable working within an engineering-focused organization
- Ability to conceptualize and illustrate project briefs from multiple stakeholders: marketing, product, engineering – support but autonomy & propose solutions
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Advanced proficiency in verbal and written English skills