Help us build a product that revolutionizes the way the world works with data
Hex is a modern platform for data science and analytics, bringing together collaborative notebooks, beautiful data apps, and enterprise-grade security. We are building an integrated platform that empowers everyone to ask and answer questions, work together, and build knowledge.
Join our growing Design team
Product Designers at Hex are responsible for the vision and execution in their embedded team. We are generalists who like to do research, wire-framing, prototyping, interaction design, visual design, and even write code (not a hard requirement).
Interested? Check out our open roles here.
Not sure? You might have a few more questions đ
Who is on the design team now?
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What qualities do you value in a designer?
Design plays a huge role at Hex, involved throughout the entire lifecycle of not just the product but the customer experience. There is no One recipe for a designer that would find success at Hex, instead we evaluate each person through a spectrum of values and skills. We holistically look at the design team through this spectrum and find designers that help complement and augment the overall team. Our different perspectives and shared ownership allows us to ship quickly, at a high quality.
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Where is everyone located?
Hex is remote-friendly, but we have an office in SF and NYC. Youâre welcome to use office space as much or as little as youâd like. Employees in the Bay Area/NYC get together at least once a month and typically come into the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We have in-person co-location weeks once a quarter for all of EPD (engineering, product, design), and we get together as an entire company twice a year.
How about the design team?
We have designers in the Bay Area, Colorado, New York, and Southern California! Check out some of our âofficesâ at home. Did we mention that all team members receive a workstation stipend?
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What are you most excited about Hex from a design perspective?
Things we are very excited (mostly cautiously optimistic) about this year:
- Our theme around empowering users of varying data fluency and technical aptitude (lowering the floor/raising the ceiling) is a very challenging design task, but an awesome opportunity to bring a ton of delight to entire organizations.
- Continuing to hold a high quality bar for our UI and UX. We like to think about features as MVLPs (minimum viable lovable products), shipping well-scoped features that are bug-free and show off the potential (and garner excitement) of future releases. We like to think of our process as eating at a fancy restaurant where theyâre bringing you a 12 course dinner of small plates, but each plate is incredible and leaves you wanting more. The opposite would be ordering a steak from Applebees that was over-cooked with poorly seasoned sides (ew). Weâve prioritized this since day 1 (founders hold the same bar) and our users acknowledge this and love us for it.
- Continuing to build out our design team. We are growing thoughtfully and take a lot of care into each addition to our team.
- Lastly... maybe most importantly: We love our collaborative process across the company. We intentionally have blurry lines between teams and roles, and like to hire hybrid people. Everyone is invited into the design process, and we get a wide range of invaluable perspectives.
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What are some examples of things the design team has been working on?
The design team prides ourselves on shipping quickly at a high quality. We help onboard new users, improve collaboration with data teams, understand lower floor less technical users and accelerate the workflows of power users.
Here are a few examples:
Who are our customers?
Our customers range from high growth start-ups like Notion, to established institutions like The Philadelphia Inquirer, to PhD astrophysicists like Melodie Kao. To read more about how our customers are using Hex to democratize data in their organizations, check out our Customers page.
If youâre curious about how designers work hand-in-hand with our customers and users, check out this blog post: Building a Builder. Sean Mateer, a product designer here at Hex, walks us through his approach for redesigning our App Builder interace.
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What are the interview process and timeline like?
We have a process doc that outlines each step, but at any pacing that youâd prefer. Some people like to knock them out quickly, some like to spread them over a few days or weeks. Whatâs important is to make sure we keep moving forward, staying cognizant of your timeline.
Ok! Youâre thinking, wow letâs do this. Check out our current openings here.
Youâve made it this far, thank you for reading. And for your curiosity you will be rewarded with some of our favorites from ourâŚ
Hex Cultural History Hall of Fame Museum â˘ď¸
â Throwback Thursday Design Gallery
Designers were made, not born. For fun, designers at Hex shared some of their early work - do they still hold up???
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After this, youâre probably even MORE convinced that you want to be around us weirdos. Check out our open roles here!
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
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