Job Description
Zed is seeking a Product Designer to help build the world's most advanced code editor. The ideal candidate is a designer who codes, deeply understands developer tools, and will craft Zed to be beautiful, powerful, simple, and a true piece of art. This role involves owning the user experience, designing clean interfaces, shaping the product roadmap, and implementing features directly in Zed's Rust codebase.
Good To Have:
- Background in developer tools
- Familiarity with the Rust programming language
Must Have:
- Own the end-to-end user experience, ensuring Zed feels intuitive, cohesive, and awesome to use for developers
- Design simple, effective, and clean interfaces that empower developers and scale
- Help shape the product roadmap and build a strong vision, guiding the team toward it
- Work directly in Zed's Rust codebase while collaborating (lots of pair programming) with a small team of engineers to fully implement the features you designed
- Maintain and evolve Zed’s design system to make building Zed smooth and easy
Zed is on a mission to build the world’s most advanced code editor, and we believe the best experiences come from designers who are also builders. We’re looking for a designer who codes. Someone who is in a codebase every day and deeply feels the reality of developer tools firsthand. You'll help us craft Zed, making it even more beautiful, powerful, simple to use, and a true piece of art.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end user experience, ensuring Zed feels intuitive, cohesive, and awesome to use for developers
- Design simple, effective, and clean interfaces that empower developers and scale
- Help shape the product roadmap and build a strong vision, guiding the team toward it
- Work directly in Zed's Rust codebase while collaborating (lots of pair programming) with a small team of engineers to fully implement the features you designed
- Maintain and evolve Zed’s design system to make building Zed smooth and easy
Requirements
- You love designing prototypes using AI as much as working in Figma
- You're detail-oriented and have great taste
- You enjoy operating on the bleeding edge, work well with ambiguity, and ship
- You are excited to learn some Rust and get your hands dirty creating interfaces in Zed's custom-built UI framework, GPUI
Preferred Qualifications
- Background in developer tools
- Familiarity with the Rust programming language
Join us in revolutionizing the development experience. Your expertise could drive Zed's next game-changing feature!
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