Senior UX Designer (remote, UTC-3 to UTC+3)

About This Role

(Fully remote, async-first, DevTool SaaS, 32-40h/week, time zones: UTC-3 to UTC+3) Location: This is a FULLY remote role, but you must be within UTC-3 to UTC+3 to work with your team, peers, and internal customers. You do not have to be in the specific country or city shown in this listing, but please only apply if you are physically based within the UTC-3 to UTC+3 timezone. -- Join Checkly as a Senior UX Designer and empower developers to own and ensure application performance and reliability - from pull request to post-mortem! Checkly helps engineers build reliable products by unifying testing, monitoring and observability. OpenTelemetry, Playwright, and Monitoring as Code are our foundation for unifying performance and reliability. Our tech stack is Vue.js, Node.js, TypeScript, Postgres, ClickHouse and AWS. We ship to prod all day, every day. We practice Agile (not scrum) and take pride in good documentation and good looking products. We’re a remote-first startup that keeps things simple—low on meetings, high on productivity, and always shipping. If you love building cool things, working async, actually listening to and working with customers, and keeping it lean, you’ll fit right in! Thousands of developers—teams at 1Password, CrowdStrike, Render, LinkedIn and Vercel included—trust Checkly to keep their apps running smoothly. In 2024, we raised $20M in Series B funding from Balderton, CRV, and Accel to take things to the next level. We care about building a team where people of all backgrounds are encouraged to do their best work. To achieve this we built a flexible, remote-first and async-first startup environment with inclusive benefits and full transparency about how we pay. What you'll do As a Designer, you will lead design of the Checkly product. You’ll drive the vision, and help shape the future of our platform experience end to end. You will report to our CPO, Alberto, and work closely with our Product Managers and Engineers. Lead the product design of Checkly's platform. You'll be the go-to person for the team when they need design decisions about user experience and the interface. Bridge design and development by prototyping in code when needed and collaborating closely with frontend engineers on implementation. Shape the design vision for new features, contributing from early exploration through implementation and iteration. Be in close contact with support and customer success teams and our users to really understand customers' problems. Co-develop and maintain our growing design system with Engineering, ensuring scalability, accessibility, and performance. Champion high standards of UI/UX and developer experience across teams while being pragmatic about tradeoffs. Use AI tools daily as a core part of your workflow, from generating and iterating on designs to prototyping and writing code, and actively push the boundaries of what AI-assisted design can look like. What we use Claude for almost everything. Slack for day to day comms. Figma for almost everything. Miro for white boarding. Vue for frontend dev. Tailwind as base for component library. Vercel for deployment & previews. Notion for all document related stuff. Multiple AI tools such as Pencil, Figma AI, Raycast, etc. What you should have Experience designing data-heavy screens: graphs, tables, charts, etc. Experience working on design-systems. Past experience as a frontend engineer or ability to (vibe) code if needed. Deep comfort working with AI tools every day, using them to move faster, write and iterate on code, and stay ahead of the curve Ability to visualize and prototype your ideas quickly and confidently work with AI to move faster. Not in love with your own work and know when to move on. Great at juggling multiple projects at once. Excellent spoken and written English skills. Ability to be autonomous and self-motivated in a remote work environment, while you also enjoy getting to know your colleagues and helping others. FULLY remote role, within the UTC-3 to UTC+3 time zones. Why us? Transparent salary because your salary shouldn't be dictated by how good a negotiator you are. (more info below) Remote-first, flexible work hours, async-first (low meeting, high productivity) and transparent culture Become part of a fast-growing, international, and remote team where your work matters—your impact won’t get lost in layers of bureaucracy. Stock options 27 days of paid vacation + your local public holidays Paid sick leave & up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave $1,500 learning, visiting and wellness budget Co-working budget or home office setup Annual company off-site Find out more here. What we pay Fair, competitive, and transparent pay is very important for us. Therefore we work with a standardized salary calculator that includes several factors such as seniority level as well as location. For this role, the range is €78k-€91k for a Senior Designer in a similar cost of market as UK, Germany etc, + stock options. €70k-€82k for Senior Designer in a similar cost of market as Spain, Poland, Ukraine etc, + stock options. Apply If this sounds interesting, please apply! Studies by several different sources have shown that on average men will apply for a job if they meet 60% of the application requirements. Women, non-binary people and POC will seek to match a much higher percentage of requirements before applying. If you're not sure you're the right fit, apply anyway and let us know what you bring to the table. We'd love to hear from you! We're all about being transparent and setting clear expectations. That's why we've put together our hiring playbook and open-sourced our employee handbook. There you'll find a sneak peek of who we are, how we work and what you can expect in our hiring process.

Responsibilities

The Senior UX Designer will lead the design vision and execution for the Checkly platform, acting as the primary design decision-maker and collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineers. Responsibilities include shaping new features from exploration to implementation, maintaining the design system, and championing high UI/UX and developer experience standards.

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Candidates must have experience designing data-heavy interfaces like graphs and tables, along with experience in design systems and the ability to code prototypes when necessary. A deep comfort level working daily with AI tools to accelerate workflow and strong autonomy in a remote setting are essential requirements.

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