Who Are We?
Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 30 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster.
The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on Twitter via @getpostman.
P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.
The Opportunity
The marketing creative team works together with various squads to ideate and support visual storytelling across the org. Blogs, webpages, events, videos, podcasts, campaigns, illustrations, Print and responsive web collateral, SWAG are just some of the design needs we support. We are medium agnostic and are always looking for interesting and new ways to design our brand's story and vision.
What You’ll Do
We are a small team and you will be working closely with the marketing team to build UI/UX, layouts and graphics for responsive webpages and websites by Postman. On a daily basis, you will be:
- Leading the way in pushing the Postman brand story through good UI/UX and a customer focused approach to design.
- The Marketing Department has their own, in-house engineering team! You would be working closely with Marketing Engineering and the Creative team to ideate, create, prototype, and create amazing UI/UX for our websites and campaigns.
- Creating pixel-perfect mocks with detailed interactions and working hand-in-hand with engineers to ship the approved ideas.
- Contributing to our design system and component library by providing feedback on the existing UI and visuals and owning regular maintenance and upkeep.
- Consistent storytelling across the brand through understanding context and providing guidance to non-design teams.
- Clearly and effectively articulating design decisions and best practices during design demos and reviews.
Past Experience
- 6+ years of relevant professional design experience
- Experience in designing responsive and adaptive webpages and websites, is knowledgeable in motion and CSS animations and the technicalities of what it takes to make a lightweight, responsive and scalable website.
- A portfolio showcasing excellent responsive websites.
- Knows, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma, CSS, BootstrapCSS / TailwindCSS and speaks development.
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment
Thorough understanding of design principles, interaction design, typography, graphics and color systems
- We operate on peer feedback, our team works in a very collaborative manner. Important to have a growth mindset and willingness to listen, learn and continuously improve.
- Is able to voice their opinion respectfully and is motivated to push the Postman brand to the next level.
What can give you an edge:
- Knowledge of Postman, the product and understanding of software technologies
- Has worked on advertising or marketing campaigns
- Ability to share knowledge through presentations and workshops
- Ability to code (basic HTML and CSS) so that you can speak responsive web development
- Experience designing for different types of webpage needs
- Experience designing for international audiences
- Experience working in a remote team
- Experience with creating a design system
- Experience with an animated SVG system
Our Values:
At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency & honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.
What Else?
The role is based in the greater San Francisco area, and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $147,900 to $180,000 plus a competitive equity package, plus an equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition to our pay-on-performance philosophy, we offer a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. Salaries will vary outside of the listed metropolitan areas & the U.S.
Equal Opportunity
Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.
