Product Designer

Palantir Technologies

(New York, New York)

Full Time

Job Posting Details

About Palantir Technologies

Solving problems that matter with institutions that matter

Responsibilities

**The Role**

- Product Designers are generalists that span many design disciplines: user research, information architecture, prototyping, ideation, interaction design, and sometimes visual design. 
- Our artifacts come in many different forms and fidelities. 
- We draw a lot, and we write a lot. 
- We prototype with paper and Sharpies, Javascript, After Effects, and Keynote. 
- We visit our users, listen, investigate, learn, and ideate. 
- We rigorously share and promote our ideas, and constantly incorporate feedback and critique.
- Sometimes we're out in front, exploring brand-new problem spaces, figuring out what to build. And sometimes we're deep in the details of micro-interactions, figuring out how to build it. 
- We lead feature teams in design exercises ranging from day-long design studios to week-long design sprints.

- A great Product Designer knows that form informs function and usability - that the surface layer doesn't exist in a vacuum and that means the partnership with the Visual Designer is a two-way conversation. 
- We believe it is often important to have an owner for each of these facets. 
- Dedicated roles help us ensure that we can meet the high bar of quality we've set for ourselves. 
- Product Designers own the user experience of our products along with Visual Designers, User Researchers, and Product Engineers. Together, we refine and evolve the quality of all Palantir software.

**Please note: this is not an industrial design role.**

The Role

Product Designers are generalists that span many design disciplines: user research, information architecture, prototyping, ideation, interaction design, and sometimes visual design.
Our artifacts come in many different forms and fidelities.
We draw a lot, and we write a lot.
We prototype with paper and Sharpies, Javascript, After Effects, and Keynote.
We visit our users, listen, investigate, learn, and ideate.
We rigorously share and promote our ideas, and constantly incorporate feedback and critique.
Sometimes we're out in front, exploring brand-new problem spaces, figuring out what to build. And sometimes we're deep in the details of micro-interactions, figuring out how to build it.
We lead feature teams in design exercises ranging from day-long design studios to week-long design sprints.
A great Product Designer knows that form informs function and usability - that the surface layer doesn't exist in a vacuum and that means the partnership with the Visual Designer is a two-way conversation.
We believe it is often important to have an owner for each of these facets.
Dedicated roles help us ensure that we can meet the high bar of quality we've set for ourselves.
Product Designers own the user experience of our products along with Visual Designers, User Researchers, and Product Engineers. Together, we refine and evolve the quality of all Palantir software.

Please note: this is not an industrial design role.

Ideal Candidate

What We Value

Excellent communication skills.
You have a proven ability to build great relationships, and convey and debate design rationale.
You are the person that people can't wait to collaborate with.
Empathy, not ego.
We strive to understand our users and we fight to empower them.
A profound love of engineers.
Palantir is an engineering company, and we get to work with some of the best in the world.
A highly iterative design process.
We move fast, we listen, and we adapt.
We rapidly incorporate feedback, and we relentlessly collaborate.
You must be adept at giving and receiving critiques.
A mastery of tools.
We move with ease across software and fidelity, depending on the task at hand. Sketch.app, hand-coding, Photoshop, Illustrator, or Keynote - and good old-fashioned pencil and paper.