Roles we’re hiring for
We have 4 openings in total
UX
Lead Product Designer (Europe/Asia)
We’re looking for a lead product designer that loves to make complicated things simple. You’ll be building intuitive and elegant experiences for a seamless design editor. You’ll be responsible for taking features throughout the design journey: from ideas to rough sketches, to prototypes, to something engineers can implement, through different iterations. You’ll work with multiple internal teams, including product management, engineering, sales and marketing, and interface closely with customers to solicit feedback and test your designs.
We’re currently working on a new version of our platform that reinvents the way professionals tell visual stories. You’ll be leading the entire design team, helping them be the best version of themselves, improving our strategy and processes. This isn’t a managerial role, you also will be getting your hands dirty yourself. You will report directly to the CEO.
Your mission
The Lead Product Designer will be responsible for the following items.
1.Defining the product experience
From wire-framing to designing end-to-end flows and prototypes, you will be in charge of designing products that solve problems in a simple and elegant way. You love a good challenge of turning the complex into simple solutions that solve customer needs. Running regular user testing workshops and guerilla testing are also things that you believe in.
2.Leading and providing guidance to the design team
You coach and review the design process on a regular basis. The team regularly presents at product and design reviews. You identify areas for improvement and ensure the team has the right skills and training. You inspire and elevate the team by producing work that is always raising the bar.
3.Analytical/Decision Making
You manage a high-level product design strategy while remaining hands-on in design skills. You collaborate with stakeholders (users, customers, product managers, sales, engineers) to translate business goals into unique product experiences. You work with user research (evaluative and generative) studies to recommend and implement continuous improvements to the product, reviewing the performance and finding ways to enhance it.
About you
You have 5 or more years of experience in Product/UX design in a highly technical environment and at least 2 years in a mentorship/leadership role. You possess an enjoyment of analytics and curiosity for discovering insights from data. You have strong communication skills, with the ability to explain using data and customer insights to influence design decisions. You have exceptional cross-functional collaboration skills. You must be comfortable and confident in leading discussions with domain experts at all levels. You are able to balance customer needs with business goals, market viability and technical feasibility. You have a portfolio that showcases a sophisticated aesthetic with strengths in design systems and visual storytelling.
This position is remote, and we prefer the candidate to be in Asia or Europe.
Remote in Asia/Europe
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PM
Head of Product & Design (Europe/Asia)
The mission of the Head of Product & Design is to steer our product portfolio to success while strengthening our culture of empowering people. Being a bootstrapped company, we focus our resources to prioritize profits over ‘growth at all costs. The Head of Product has a key responsibility to achieve our three core purposes:
- Purpose: To empower people to communicate impactful stories
- People: Everyone who has come in contact with the organization to become better versions of themselves
- Profit: To run a profitable company with sustainable growth
There are 2 PMs, 1 Lead Senior Product designer and 1 Data analyst who will be reporting to this candidate. You report directly to the CEO.
Your mission
The Head of Product & Design will be responsible for the following items.
1.Entrepreneurial traits with a bias for action and customer-centricity
You have “been there, done that,” leading product organizations through changing markets, failed & learned, as well as succeeded and grown. In this VUCA world, the only way we will know whether a product would be successful or not is to validate it with the market. Therefore a strong bias for action and speed are our advantages. You will need to have demonstrated the ability to learn, build, measure, and lead the product to do that repeatedly!
2.Strong ability to identify & reap trends & business opportunities in the market
You (will) have a deep understanding of our market and adjacent markets, to navigate our product around external risks towards commercial success. You analyze, identify, and articulate opportunities. You formulate a roadmap for long term commercial success of the business and product. You don’t need to be a subject matter expert of our design-led product. You are comfortable making decisions without ever having 100% perfect data, and you map out the strategy of the product according to the business goals. You have a solid ability to understand, analyze, size, and define target markets. You bring in experience working in different business and pricing models.
3.Setting business priorities for the product team
You possess an uncanny ability to articulate the ‘Why?’ and rationalize the business goals for the product teams. We try to ensure that our product teams are as autonomous as possible, which allows you to be more strategic. Like an orchestra conductor, you ensure that we have strong alignment and synergies within our product portfolio of currently two products and across our cross-functional teams.
4.(Preferable) Has a prior background in product design
The team and you will be building intuitive and elegant experiences for a seamless design editor. Together, you will be responsible for taking features throughout the design journey: from ideas to rough sketches, to prototypes, to something engineers can implement, through different iterations. You’ll be leading the entire design team, helping them be the best version of themselves, improving our strategy and processes.
About you
You have led product teams in startups with a similar profile to us (SAAS, remote a plus) and bring an extensive share of strategic learnings & experiences. You have shown how you own & drive business outcomes. You are an exceptional team player, which allows you to connect the dots between teams & stakeholders to achieve business objectives together.
This position is remote, and we prefer the candidate to be in Asia or Europe.
Remote in Asia/Europe
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Frontend
Lead/Principal Front End Developer (Europe/Asia)
Piktochart is hiring a Front-end Tech Lead to help shape the future of business storytelling in the Innovation team. Besides having technical expertise and knowledge in the Frontend domain, you are someone who is keen on mentoring (note, not managing) a team, as well as ensuring their execution and quality towards achieving the goals.
You’ll have the freedom, trust, and autonomy to do your best work. The Front end team currently consists of 10 developers, split between Innovation, Growth and the Piktostory team (another product line). You will be reporting directly to the CTO.
Your mission
1. Strong craft
Craft includes not just delivering the most bug-free (current and future) code on the planet, but also value that is well-thought of. We implement features on a continuum of progressive enhancements and the Front end team supports this by writing automated tests, clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
2. Problem-solving is your thing
We value developers that are user-focused and problem-solvers. To do that, a developer has to be curious and inquisitive about the users and the business. For example, you build a proof-of-concept of fonts and color schemes to enable teams to be on brand, while also recommending the best font and color pairing. We believe that developers and designers should work together, so the developers should actively research and think of good ways to implement a solution.
3. Collaborative work makes the outcome better
You thrive in a collaborative atmosphere, working together with product designers and PM, Customer Support, and Marketing on the tasks that need to be done. You actively participate and contribute to discussions around making our product better.
4. Coach the team to constantly give their best and improve
The team regularly gets together to discuss code reviews and best practices. You are expected to be able to contribute to those discussions and help lead and coach the teams. While we do not expect any form of performance review, you have to enjoy working with other Front end developers and help them hone their craft.
About you
You have led or mentored front-end developer teams in startups with a similar profile to us (SAAS, remote a plus) and bring an extensive share of strategic learnings & experiences. You have shown how you maintained a strong craft and intend to continue on that path.
This position is remote, and the candidate has to be in either Asia or Europe.
Remote in Asia/Europe
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Engineering
Dev Ops (Europe/Asia)
Piktochart is a fully-remote startup developing SaaS products to help our users tell their stories using infographics or video clips ready to easily target their audience. If you have a strong passion for scaling web apps in cloud environments, automation, application security and backend development, we need your help!
It’s ok you might not have all the skills we’ve listed. If you have a mix of some of the listed skills and you’re interested in developing in the others, we want to hear from you too!
Your mission
The Dev Ops will be responsible for the following items.
1.Set up infrastructure and automate development/release processes
You design scalable, reliable and secure SaaS infrastructure on GCP & AWS. You participate on backend development of NodeJS based services. You automate the deployment of containerized applications on Kubernetes.
2.Ensures the quality of the product conforms to its requirement
You monitor the health of our services and infrastructure. You analyze software performance and perform system/code/cost optimization. You are in charge of debugging production issues across all layers of the stack and services.
3.Collaborative work makes the outcome better
You thrive in a collaborative atmosphere, co-operate with your team members through code review, documentation, retrospectives, and training to help improve our collective knowledge and best practices. You actively participate and contribute to discussions around making our product better.
About you
You are experienced with deploying, implementing and operating services in managed Kubernetes or via other container orchestration platforms. You have deep knowledge of Unix/Linux environments (preferably Ubuntu or Debian). You have advanced experience with managing and operating Cloud environments (GCP or AWS). You are experienced with backend development based on the NodeJS ecosystem (JavaScript, TypeScript), configuring load balancers or reverse proxies based on Nginx and database systems in scale (MySQL/PostgreSQL/Redis/Memcache). You have knowledge of web application security standards.
It will be great if you have experience with CI/CD services and pipelines (CircleCI, Google Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, etc), NodeJS, Golang or Ruby and their ecosystem and Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban). You have high self-learning abilities to adapt to emergency circumstances. You are able to manage multiple issues at once and keep your team updated.
This position is remote, and we prefer the candidate to be in Asia or Europe.
Remote in Asia/Europe
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