Product Designer

📋 Description

• Forward Networks is revolutionizing the way large networks are managed.

• The Forward Enterprise platform delivers a vendor-agnostic "digital twin" of the network, based on a mathematical model.

• The platform scales to support hundreds of thousands of network devices, whether cloud, hybrid cloud, or on-prem.

• It serves as a single source of truth for the network, enabling network operators to instantly verify security posture, accelerate troubleshooting, avoid outages, and modernize network management.

• Over the past few years, Forward Networks has received tremendous industry recognition, including “Cool Vendor in Enterprise Networking” by Gartner, “Product of the Year” by Cloud Computing, “Hot Company” by Cyber Defense Magazine, “Enterprise Cloud Computing Software of the Year,” and has been named to Fortune’s “Best Workplaces in the Bay Area” list.

• The company was founded by four Stanford PhD graduates who saw a massive opportunity to improve network operations.

• Forward Networks is currently looking for a user-centered Mid-Level Product Designer with an entrepreneurial mindset to contribute to our growth and elevate our user experience to the next level.

• Our flagship product, Forward Enterprise, is a web application that brings a consumer-like design approach to interacting with network behavior data.

🎯 Requirements

• Four (4) or more years of experience in user research, product design, user experience design, interaction design, information architecture, or a similar role

• The ability to solve complex design problems that require alignment with a wide array of stakeholders (Product Management, Sales, Engineering, Customer Success)

• Ability to explore widely different ideas and narrow them down based on user insights

• Expert in UX design processes and methods

• Ability to work within an established design system, but comfortable pushing the framework to its limits

• Solid understanding of research methodology, capturing insights, and applying empathy to the product design process

• Experience with designing highly interactive web or desktop applications

• Mastery in design tools like Figma or Sketch

• A portfolio and samples of work demonstrating a background creating great user-centered, customer-focused design solutions

• Strong verbal communication and presentation skills

• Bachelor’s degree in UX Design, Visual / Graphic Design, Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, or related field of study