Product Designer

Restate; Portugal; Teletrabalho; EUR 40 000 - 60 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Restate is seeking a Product Designer to shape its core product experience, covering the main Restate UI and the design system behind it. You’ll work directly with engineers and the founding team to build durable runtime concepts and intuitive visuals for developers.

You will design the core interfaces, ensure consistent terminology across UI, SDKs, and docs, and push to make complex technical ideas feel obvious through motion and storytelling.

Qualificações

• Must have depth in designing complex software and tools.
• Several years designing dashboards, platforms, or developer-focused products.
• Strong information design and visual storytelling for technical concepts.
• Experience building and maintaining design systems with coherent visuals.

Responsabilidades

• Design the core Restate UI from ideation to shipped product.
• Make dense information readable: timelines, retries, queues, state, failures.
• Maintain a single mental model across UI, SDKs, and docs.
• Bring durable execution to life visually and keep the design bar high.
• Explain Restate’s architecture with interactive, animated visuals.
• Use motion to communicate state, time, and dynamism.
• Ship visuals across surfaces: developer content, blogs, social visuals.
• Keep visual language coherent with the product’s outside and inside views.
• Build scalable design systems and reusable components.
• Collaborate closely with design and engineering from sketch to shipped.

Conhecimentos

Product design depth

Design systems

Motion design

Information design

Visual storytelling

Brand and campaign craft

Cross-functional collaboration

Autonomy

AI literacy

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About the Role

• We’re looking for a Product Designer to shape Restate’s core product experience. This role covers both, the core Restate UI with the design system behind it and the visual work that makes durable execution understandable to developers. You’ll work directly with the engineers who build the product and with the wider founding team.
• Front-row seat to the biggest infra shift in decades: Durable runtimes like Restate are becoming the next foundational infrastructure component - and increasingly a critical piece for AI applications. As systems become more agentic, long-running, integration-heavy, and failure-prone, durable execution turns reliability from a bespoke engineering tax into a default property. In this role, you’re not watching that shift from the sidelines - you help build the platform that enables it.
• State-of-the-art tech, built from first principles: Restate re-imagines durable execution as a lightweight self-contained stack - no database required - and ships as a single Rust binary with an optimized custom storage layer, low latency orchestration, and an analytics engine for observability.
• Enterprise Traction: Restate is already used by Fortune 500 companies, including Tier 1 banks running critical financial workflows, and also by cutting-edge AI and infra startups pushing the boundary of what “production-grade agents” mean. You’ll work on problems where reliability, correctness, and operational simplicity are existential.
• Work with world-class engineers: You’ll partner directly with engineers who’ve built and operated foundational systems at scale - creators of Apache Flink, and leaders from Meta’s messaging infrastructure. You’ll have the chance to work with incredibly talented individuals who care deeply about their craft.
• Travel: minimal; occasional team offsites.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design the core Restate UI: from whiteboarding sessions with engineers to shipping. You won’t be writing the production code, but you stay with it until it’s right.
• Make dense information readable: execution timelines, retries, queues, state, failures. Our users are engineers working out what happened, usually in a hurry, and deciding what they see first is most of the work.
• Keep one mental model: developers meet the same concepts in the UI, the SDKs and the docs. They should be named and presented the same way wherever someone runs into them.
• Bring durable execution to life visually: the current Restate product is loved for its simplicity in breaking down a technically complex product. You’ll make sure we keep shipping at the same design bar.
• Explain Restate’s architecture visually: interactive and animated explanations that make the key differentiators clear.
• Motion as a first-class medium: Restate is a living, durable system, and we want to design with motion to convey that.
• Ship across surfaces: developer-facing content, blog illustrations, social visuals, and more.
• Keep it coherent with the product: the visual language that explains Restate from the outside and the one inside the product should be the same language.
• Build scalable Design Systems: reusable components and patterns for architecture diagrams, code visualizations, and interactive elements that others can benefit from.
• Work closely with design and engineering: skip the traditional handoff and iterate together, from first sketch through to shipped.

What You’ll Bring

• The profile: We’re looking for a product designer with strong opinions and a portfolio that backs them up, covering both halves: complex product work you’ve designed, and visual work that explains something technical. You should be comfortable operating with significant autonomy, working directly with the founding team, and pushing back when the team is wrong.
• You don’t have to write production code. You do have to understand what you’re designing for well enough to have the argument with an engineer and sometimes win it.
• Must-haves: Product design depth on complex software. Several years designing tools, dashboards, or platforms. Not only marketing sites and consumer apps.
• Information design. Turning a lot of data into something a person can read quickly. Hierarchy, density, progressive disclosure, and knowing what to leave out.
• Visual storytelling for technical concepts. Show us how you’ve made something complex feel obvious.
• Brand and campaign craft. Layout, typography, illustration, launch visuals. Work that stands up next to the best in developer tools.
• Motion design ability. Motion as a way to communicate state, time, and dynamism.
• Design Systems. Reusable components and patterns others can build on, and the discipline to keep them coherent over time.
• Strong design sensibility. A high visual bar you can hold across the product and the work that explains it, without waiting for someone to set the direction first. We’re not precious about which tools you get there with.
• Technical curiosity. You don’t need a distributed systems background, but you should be able to follow what the product does and design from understanding rather than from a screenshot.
• Writing. Labels, empty states, error messages, headlines.
• AI literacy. You’re using AI to multiply your own impact and to unblock yourself.
• Not a fit: You’ve only designed complex software, or only made things look good from the outside. We need both.