[Hiring] Product Designer @Restate

Role Description

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.

The opportunity includes:

• 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.
• State-of-the-art tech, built from first principles.
• Enterprise traction with Fortune 500 companies, including Tier 1 banks and cutting-edge AI and infra startups.
• Work with world-class engineers who’ve built and operated foundational systems at scale.

What you’ll do:

• Design the core Restate UI: from whiteboarding sessions with engineers to shipping.
• Make dense information readable: execution timelines, retries, queues, state, failures.
• Keep one mental model: developers meet the same concepts in the UI, the SDKs, and the docs.
• Bring durable execution to life visually.
• Explain Restate's architecture visually: interactive and animated explanations.
• Use motion as a first-class medium.
• Ship across surfaces: developer-facing content, blog illustrations, social visuals, and more.
• Keep it coherent with the product.
• Build scalable design systems: reusable components and patterns.
• Work closely with design and engineering.

Qualifications

• Strong opinions and a portfolio that backs them up.
• Comfortable operating with significant autonomy.
• Ability to push back when the team is wrong.

Requirements

• Product design depth on complex software.
• Information design skills.
• Visual storytelling for technical concepts.
• Brand and campaign craft experience.
• Motion design ability.
• Experience with design systems.
• Strong design sensibility.
• Technical curiosity.
• Writing skills for labels, empty states, error messages, headlines.
• AI literacy.

Benefits

• Remote work flexibility, preferably in Europe; US remote for exceptional candidates.
• Minimal travel; occasional team offsites.