Product Designer - Metabase

Metabase is the easiest way for people to get insights from their data, from tiny startups who get up and running quickly to major corporations with tens of thousands of users. We bring data tools with the elegance and simplicity of consumer products to the crufty world of enterprise business intelligence.

We're expanding the product in many directions and continuously reevaluating past decisions to improve every flow and detail. We are looking for outcome-oriented, seasoned Product Designers to join our core team. At Metabase, design directly drives business success: our customers consistently choose us because of our superior UX.

Product designers at Metabase are part of a centralized team, working closely with small teams of engineers to design and ship beautiful, simple solutions from beginning to end.

We have a unique design culture:

• We focus on solving root problems rather than applying superficial fixes.
• We care more about a solution “feeling” right than rigidly adhering to “consistency.”
• We ship iteratively and value real-world outcomes over “perfect” process or glossy internal artifacts.

Recent projects our designers have tackled include:

• Creating a completely new Documents feature.
• Envisioning a new way to view, compare, and explore metrics.
• Creating patterns and surfaces for LLM-based SQL generation, natural language queries, and asynchronous agentic work.

Responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end design solutions that are truly elegant, beautiful, fun, and simple.
• Push back on complexity creeping into the product.
• Use a variety of mediums to communicate what could or should be done, whether it’s LLM-generated prototypes, writing, Figjam diagrams, or high fidelity concepts and solutions.
• Pull on engineers and product thinkers to ensure understanding of technical constraints and possibilities.
• Iterate rapidly and broadly in scrappy ways that make abstract ideas tangible and move conversations forward.
• Deeply internalize the needs and mindset of our users through insights provided by the broader team.

Profile

• You think in terms of journeys, not screens.
• Biased toward building things, not slide decks.
• Work out-in-the-open instinctively to receive feedback and iterate with an experienced, skilled team.
• Thorough and attentive to detail, with a high internal bar for your craft.
• Strong ability to communicate design decisions and rationales through speaking and writing.
• Comfortable with asynchronous collaboration, and articulating complex ideas remotely.

Skills and experience

• Depth of experience designing solutions for challenging product problems, relying on research, analytics, instincts, and craftsmanship.
• Experience designing specifically for large web applications or tools.
• Technical enough to understand at a high level what is happening inside engineering black-boxes.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with LLM-based UI and interaction prototyping.
• Experience with Web development (HTML, CSS, React).
• Technical background or education (CS degree or similar).
• Experience building or using developer tools.