Product Designer
WFA Digital Insight
Supabase's Product Designer role offers a unique chance to shape the user experience of an open-source database platform. Given the company's born-remote and open-source-first approach, the role demands a designer who can collaborate effectively with global teams and balance user needs, technical constraints, and business goals. With opportunities to lead complex design challenges, this position is perfect for a candidate who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about creating seamless user experiences.
Job Description
ABOUT THE ROLE As a Product Designer at Supabase, you'll be a key member of our design team, crafting innovative and user-focused solutions for our open-source database platform. You'll collaborate closely with Product Engineers, Product Managers, Product Marketing Managers and other peer designers to take ideas from idea to completion, ensuring a seamless and intuitive user experience across all Supabase products. Your work will directly impact the developer community, making databases more accessible, powerful, and easy to use. You'll shape how developers experience Supabase at every touchpoint, driving clarity, usability, and craft across the entire product. You'll have opportunities to lead, propose, and execute projects across various products and tools. Whether simplifying complex workflows, designing new features, improving onboarding, or elevating the overall product experience, your contributions will shape our platform's future. WHAT YOU'LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR - Aligning teams with working prototypes, user flows, or high-fidelity mockups, choosing the most effective communication method.
- Anticipating potential pitfalls ahead of time and improving usability to resolve them.
- Leading complex design challenges, with the ability to balance user needs, technical constraints, and business goals.
- Finding alignment with cross-functional teams, along with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Success Engineers, Sales, Product Engineers, Product Marketing Managers, and other stakeholders.
- Conducting or applying user research, gathering feedback, and using data to inform and validate design decisions.
- Contributing to the overall product ecosystem, ensuring consistency and scalability across a growing product surface.
- Prefer to collaboratively work with others that have different skill sets and possess different points of view.
- Are actively building things outside of work; side projects, personal experiments; you're curious and you ship.
- Can move fast without sacrificing craft.
- Can write code (with AI), and should be comfortable designing for a technical audience. WHAT WE OFFER - Fully Remote We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere.
- ESOP Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together.
- Tech Allowance Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.
- Health Benefits Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are.
- Annual Off-Sites Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It’s a highlight of our year.
- Flexible Work We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.
- Professional Development Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.
- ~400 team members - 60+ countries - 20+ languages spoken - Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F) - 540,000+ community members We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship.
How to Stand Out
- When applying, make sure to showcase your portfolio and highlight your experience in product design and user experience principles.
- Be prepared to discuss your design process and how you balance user needs, technical constraints, and business goals.
- Familiarize yourself with Supabase's open-source database platform and be ready to discuss how you can contribute to its growth and development.
- Highlight your ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate complex design concepts effectively.
- Be prepared to write code and design for a technical audience, as this is a key requirement for the role.
- Research the company culture and values, and be prepared to discuss how you can contribute to and thrive in a fully remote work environment.
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