UX Designer

About Us

CloudZero is the leader in proactive cloud cost efficiency. We enable engineers to build cost-efficient software without slowing down innovation. CloudZero's next-generation cloud cost optimization platform automates the collection, allocation, and analysis of cloud costs to uncover savings opportunities and improve unit economics.

The Role

Job Title: UX Designer

Job Responsibilities:

• Conduct user research, interviews, and surveys to gather insights on user behavior, needs, and pain points. Analyze data to inform design decisions.
• Create low to high-fidelity wireframes, prototypes, and mockups to illustrate design concepts and user flows.
• Develop intuitive user interfaces and interactions that enhance user satisfaction
• Conduct usability tests, gather feedback, and iterate designs based on user feedback and data analysis.
• Work closely with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of designs with the product’s functionality and requirements.
• Maintain and contribute to design systems, ensuring consistency across products and features.
• Organize and structure content and features in a logical, user-friendly way to ensure easy navigation.
• Refactoring existing design components and building new ones as the team expands the system.
• Keep up to date with the latest UX trends, tools, and best practices to continuously improve the design process and user experience.
• Define, design and deliver new product capabilities that make hard tasks easy for technical users at SaaS companies and digitally native businesses
• Understand how customers use our existing product capabilities and find ways to improve them
• Use design sprints or similar customer-centric design methodologies to validate solutions
• Deliver pixel perfect user-centered prototypes for web and non-traditional UIs (Slack messages, CLIs)

Candidate Requirements

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in UX design, interaction design, or a related field.
• Experienced working on SaaS products, particularly B2B
• Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to better communicate with development teams.
• Deep knowledge of Figma and Design system; Ability to build and maintain design system components that scale dynamically to a wide range of layouts.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, responsive design, and accessibility best practices.
• Experience with usability testing platforms and analytics tools like Hotjar, Google Analytics, or similar.
• Experience working within the Cloud Optimization industry a plus
• Ability to move between UX research and visual / interaction design
• Comfort with an agile “startup pace” with its’ tight feedback cycles and short sprints
• Experience with technical products in complex domains 

Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present and defend design decisions.
• Ability to solve complex design challenges and balance user needs with business goals.
• Confidence and comfort in speaking with a range of customer personas to gather feedback

Work Style:

• Full-time
• Remote

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• Equity Grants
• Flexible remote work and paid time off policies
• 401(k) Retirement Plan