honeycomb.io Looking for Director of Design at Canada Full Time

Honeycomb defined the concept of observability and is raising expectations of what developer tools can do! Honeycomb is the observability platform that enables engineering teams to find and solve problems they couldn’t before. It enables engineers to answer novel questions about their ever-evolving cloud applications, so they can deploy confidently, resolve incidents faster and focus on high-value work that drives innovation. We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 150-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022!

In this Director of Design role, you’ll be leading a team who is building groundbreaking products for a new category, which means you’ll be working across disciplines to understand the market, connect design to the overall needs of the business, and chart a course to maximize the impact of our designers’ creativity. You’ll be the champion for design thinking and investment at Honeycomb, evangelizing a vision for how world-class design can elevate our brand perception and user experience alike. The contributions of your team will be key in helping us to empower engineers to launch investigations and better understand how their software behaves in a production environment.

Who We Are

We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers.

How We Work

We are a remote-first company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1.

We can hire for this role in the United States and Canada.

What You’ll Do In the Role:

• Reporting to the VP of Product, you’ll lead both the visual and product design functions at Honeycomb
• You’ll contribute to our product strategy and define how the important work of design plays a part in amplifying the value of Honeycomb’s products
• As a hands-on design leader, you’ll immerse yourself in the experience of the engineers who use our product and help your team tell the varied and diverse stories of Honeycomb’s customers, internally and externally
• You’ll hold accountability to define a vision for the look, feel, and interactions in the Honeycomb product, and communicate that vision to the rest of the company
• With our Manager of Visual Design, you’ll define and promote a consistent, colorful design ethos throughout all of Honeycomb’s external properties and assets
• As a member of the R&D leadership team, you’ll build strong working relationships with your peer directors in Product and Engineering to model the collaborative triad-based working style at Honeycomb
• As department leader for all of Design, you’ll own the tools and practices needed to help your team do their absolute best work
• You’ll establish KPIs that can be used to measure the impact of design decisions, and promote a data-informed mindset within the design team
• You’ll elevate your team’s work by sharing your ideas and insights in blog posts, company all hands meetings, and demo days

What You’ll Bring:

• Several years of people management experience in a design leadership role, and a passion for developing talent
• Proven experience crafting and advocating for an ambitious, inspiring, differentiated design vision. We’d love to see examples of your work in this area
• Strong connection to business outcomes and a point of view on how the design function can best support the larger mission of Honeycomb
• A strong sense of curiosity. You care deeply about users, are naturally curious about what pains them and pleases them, and will be relentless in advocating for their best interests in the product. You feel comfortable proactively reaching out to users, and your engagement will be tuned toward empathy and understanding
• Enthusiasm for sharing the vision of design for Honeycomb. You enjoy communicating about design and are able to talk about complex design ideas and processes in a way that’s accessible to diverse audiences
• Deep experience in UX workflow process and ideation. You have experience conducting research, discovery, wire-framing, and using prototyping to validate and convey ideas.
• Exposure and experience with developer ecosystems. You have familiarity with tools across the build/deploy/observe spectrum, starting with the IDE, rolling through CI/CD, all the way through to production debugging

What You Get When You Join The Hive!

• Base pay (range) of $200,000 – $250,000 USD
• A stake in our success – generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
• It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are – our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
• Compensation benchmarked to San Francisco market – no matter where you live (or move)!
• 401k plan to help you plan for your future
• A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
• 100% employee coverage for Health, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability insurance and 75% for dependents
• Time To Recharge – Unlimited PTO, paid sabbatical, 19 US Holidays in 2023 (which includes a company wide break at the end of the year to help you relax and recharge for the new year), and one 3-day weekend per month
• Pick Your Perk – $600 a year to spend on the perks that you care about most
• Work Life Balance and Flexible Schedule options
• The tech you need AND a $500 Home Setup Stipend
• $200 Reimbursement for Cell/Wifi/CoWorking
• $1500+ Annual Professional Development Allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
• Maven Inclusive Family-Building benefit including unlimited virtual appointments, coaches & counselors, and $10K ‘wallet’ to support adoption, surrogacy, IVF, and egg/sperm freezing
• Semi-annual performance conversations (we call them Review & Rewards conversations) – so you know where you stand, and how you’ll be rewarded for your impact
• Annual compensation review, benchmarking to industry and inflation changes

Please note we cannot currently sponsor or do visa transfers at this time.

Diversity & Accommodations:

We’re building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other, and welcome nontraditional candidates, and people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. You don’t need to be a millennial to join us, all gens are welcome! Further, we (of course) follow federal and state disability laws and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations during the application phase, interview process, and employment. Please email [email protected] discuss accessible formats or accommodations. As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work; if we can do better – we want to know!