Buffer is hiring for some high paying, no phone work from home jobs worldwide!
Both jobs include these benefits:
💰 Competitive salary
🏝 Work remotely: Live and work wherever you like!
🗓 4-Day workweeks: Our schedule is four workdays, with a flexible, meeting-free fifth day for overflow tasks or personal time as you see fit.
💪 Health insurance: We offer health insurance for all of our team members, international or US.
💻 Home office setup: Get a laptop + $1000 to set up your home office!
👓 ‘Growth mindset' fund: Extra money for learning and development.
⛺️ Minimum vacation: At least 3 weeks/year!
💵 Savings plan match: With 3% company match
📈 Profit sharing: When the company does well, all team members share the profits!
🍼 Family leave: 16 weeks of family leave for all parents, fully paid
📚 Free books: Get a free Kindle and all the free books – digital, physical, and audio – you like, anytime.
⛱ Sabbaticals: Take a 6-week break, fully paid, after every 5 years with Buffer.
Senior Product Designer
PAY: $140K – 172K USD.
About the role
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Product Designer to help us iterate and improve upon the foundation we’ve built as well as help imagine what’s next.
You’ll refine and improve existing workflows and features with our content management, scheduling, analytics, and engagement tools. Beyond our core offerings, you’ll explore and bring to life entirely new interfaces and experiences – both inside and outside of social media – to better help small businesses get off the ground and grow.
We are a design team of 4 designers, working fully remote and spread across Europe, North Africa, and the US. Each designer works closely with a dedicated Product Manager and engineering team on a specific area of our product.
To be successful in this role you’ll need strong analytical and collaboration skills, the ability to work highly self-directed in a remote and distributed environment, and a strong understanding of UX best practices to ensure we are building the right solution to the right problems.
What you'll do
- Work across the full product design life cycle from discovery to delivery
- Collaborate closely with your product manager in discovering, defining and developing both big and small product features
- Collaborate with engineers and other designers, as well as product marketing and customer advocacy in iteratively delivering product improvements to our customers
- Cover both interaction/UX and visual/UI design, as well as related activities like research and customer interviews
- Be the voice of our customers and advocate for their needs and abilities.
- Actively contribute to ongoing improvements of the design teams processes, culture, and tools, including our design system.
Desired skills and experience
- General: At least 4 years of experience as a product designer, covering the full end-to-end product design life cycle from early problem exploration and definition, over detailed UX and visual design, to collaboration with developers during implementation.
- Process: Strong understanding of UX and UI design, processes, patterns, and best practices
- Problem solving: Effective approaches to solving complex problems, incorporating data and feedback from multiple sources. Ability to generate multiple solutions with a clear understanding of their impacts.
- Interaction design: Ability to design intuitive, effective and consistent flows and screen
- Visual design: Ability to design visually engaging and delightful interfaces
- Technical: Solid understanding of possibilities and constrains of web platforms and relevant design patterns
- Collaboration: Ability to work within a larger team and across disciplines, locations and time zones
- Communication: Ability to effectively express yourself concise and clearly in talking, writing and visually, to a variety of audiences and stakeholders
- Business: Ability to understand larger business goals and strategy, and to develop matching design solutions
- Work standards: High standards for your work, attention to details, and an ongoing desire to learn and improve
- Other: A strong portfolio showcasing your previous work including starting points, process, end results, and impacts.
- Fun fact: We use Figma and FigJam at Buffer.
Design Engineer, Marketing
PAY: $147,795 – $191,029 USD.
About the role
You will be the primary engineer working alongside Buffer’s Marketing team. In this role, you’ll directly assist the team with increasing signups, creating a strong brand, and launching new product features. This is a small and agile team within Buffer that works on various projects simultaneously and where members of the team are trusted to manage their own time and schedules.
As the Design Engineer:
- You will build delightful user experiences on our website through polished pages, unique interfaces, and tasteful animations.
- You will write and ship high-quality, tested, and efficient code that contributes to Buffer’s goals
- You will work closely with marketing leadership, designers, and customer advocates to understand the needs of our web visitors and assess the feasibility of various solutions to address these needs.
- You will contribute to our front-end engineering standards to improve the consistency and quality of our Marketing codebases and processes.
- You will instrument data tracking on the features you develop to help analyze user acquisition, usage, and adoption after release.
Working at Buffer is collaborative and positive thanks to our core values. We try to be “No Ego Doers” who are aware of our assumptions, and joining us means you'll work together as a team in order to test and confirm our ideas.
Who you'll work with
This role sits on the Marketing team, where you’ll be the primary engineer. You’ll collaborate on a variety of Brand, Growth and Product Marketing projects with our full Marketing team. You’ll partner closely with our Marketing UX Designer to build web and mobile experiences that help people learn about and sign up for Buffer.
Responsibilities
- Create delightful user experiences on buffer.com that attract, engage, and convert website visitors, in collaboration with UX design.
- Contribute to the design of buffer.com through prototyping ideas, creating new performant components, and crafting unique animations and experiences. We want you to bring our pages to the next level! ✨
- Lead the technical roadmap for buffer.com; championing iterative improvements to our site’s browser performance, accessibility, and usability.
- Contribute to our marketing design system by creating new components to our front-end library on web and mobile responsive web.
- Collaborate with Marketing to build various landing pages to support our product launches, growth experiments, and Open Hub that capture Buffer’s product, culture, and brand.
- Support our experimentation roadmap by implementing conversion rate optimization tests on buffer.com, while contributing technical improvements to our web experiment process.
- Support the implementation of various tools that power the marketing team, including Ghost, Prismic, and Google Tag Manager. Our technical stack consists mainly of Next.js and Typescript.
Qualifications
- You bring experience in a similar role(s) where you have obsessed over the details and strived for pixel perfection with your web and mobile experience.
- You are passionate about writing simple, maintainable, tested code, and you take a balanced approach to engineering.
- You have strong communication and collaboration skills and enjoy sharing knowledge with your teammates.
- You have experience with front-end frameworks like Next.js, performance best practices, and using Typescript as your main driver.
- We value the depth and quality of your experience over counting years. That said, successful applicants typically have at least 5 years of development experience.
- You are comfortable in a high-velocity testing environment and can contribute to testing ideation and workflows.
- You are comfortable working with Figma, CMS platforms like Ghost and Prismic, and web tracking software (Google Tag Manager, Segment, etc).
- You have closely collaborated with folks from Marketing and Design in previous roles.
- Bonus: If you have engineering experience supporting search engine optimization, web experimentation, and web tracking projects.