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Apollo is on a mission to make the world’s data more accessible by making APIs easier to build and scale. Our graph router powers some of the world’s most popular websites, and product designers here get to shape the tools that our customers use to manage their graphs. As a Senior Manager of Product Design at Apollo, you'll have the opportunity to contribute strategically and make a meaningful impact across various aspects of the business, driving innovation and shaping the future of our products. From leading a strategic initiative on product feature placement, to manifesting large-scale changes to our information architecture, or bringing features like graph visualization to life, you'll play a pivotal role in defining the future of our design ecosystem.  <br> We’re seeking a Product Design Leader with management experience who can embed strategic design thinking into our PDE (Product, Design, Engineering) culture. If you’re passionate about product design and excel at fostering growth within a close-knit team, you'll find this role both rewarding and impactful, with plenty of opportunities to make a meaningful difference. <h3>What You'll Do</h3> <ul> <li>You’ll lead our small but mighty design team, fostering an environment where innovation thrives and team members are empowered to grow and excel.</li> <li>You’ll develop a clear vision and strategy for design at Apollo, guiding the team through initiatives like redesigning our information architecture, launching new product lines, and designing cohesive user journeys across our various interfaces.</li> <li>You’ll foster a culture of design thinking, and find practical ways to apply design methodologies to our engineering-heavy organization.</li> <li>You’ll conduct studies and gather user research on key initiatives, maintaining a close connection with our customers to inform and drive design decisions.</li> <li>You’ll be a major contributor to our group strategy and a leader who inspires and motivates people across the company, building strong alliances with other managers to drive cross-team results.</li> <li>You’ll champion strategic initiatives and help shape the future of our design ecosystem.</li> </ul><h3>Minimum Requirements</h3> <ul> <li>You’ve managed designers, supported their career growth, and are skilled at leveraging your own expertise to mentor &amp; develop emerging design leaders. </li> <li>You have experience crafting visually strong, clear, and delightful experiences.</li> <li>You have a track record of leading complex initiatives, developing strong perspectives on your team's product areas, and successfully advocating for them across the organization to deliver significant business impact.</li> <li>You’re proficient in Figma, Atomic Design, and have built or contributed to design systems. Your knowledge of HTML and CSS allows you to collaborate effectively with engineers on implementation.</li> <li>You have excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.</li> <li>You're skilled at finding the balance between business needs, strong design, and practical solutions, and can speak to this through the work in your portfolio.</li> <li>You’re excited to work in the dynamic environment of a startup.</li> <li>Experience with technical SaaS products, especially in dev tools or similar domains, is a plus.</li> </ul><h3>Preferred Skills</h3> <ul> <li>Experience with visual design and branding.</li> <li>Experience with UX writing.</li> <li>Basic coding experience would be helpful in understanding our product &amp; users. </li> </ul>Whether you binge-watch a series on Netflix, plan faraway vacations from your phone, or read international news online, you’ve likely used Apollo’s technology this week. Apollo supports some of the largest GraphQL platforms in the world.  We’re not looking to rest on our laurels though — we’re aiming to change how software is built. Apollo wants to empower every software team to build an amazing user experience across any number of clients, without dealing with a barrage of API endpoints.  Equal to all of that, Apollo is intent on becoming the company where you can see your career grow through challenging work, collaborating with incredible teammates, and accomplishing the unattainable. <br> At Apollo, we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation whilst ensuring consistency within the team in each country. We make hiring decisions based on your skills, experience, and our overall assessment of what we learned during the hiring process.  <br> In addition to the U.S. base salary range, we also provide equity and benefits. Apollo offers all U.S. employees a choice of 3 Anthem Blue Cross medical plans and California residents can also choose from an additional 2 Kaiser medical plans. Dental and Vision benefits are provided by Sun Life Financial. <br> Equal Opportunity: Apollo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a talented and diverse workforce. <br> Privacy: California residents applying for positions at Apollo can see our privacy policy <a href="https://www.apollographql.com/CCPA-Privacy-Notice-for-Employees.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>. <br> E-Verify: Apollo is an E-Verify employer and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information please visit <a href="https://www.e-verify.gov/" target="_blank">E-Verify</a>.

Apollo Graph

Senior Manager, Product Design

We’re helping organizations deploy supergraphs at scale using Apollo Federation. Are you passionate about language engineering and understand what it takes to write a compiler or a query planner? If so, we’d love to talk to you about joining us in building next-generation GraphQL infrastructure.  <br> With more and more GraphQL APIs being deployed by product teams in organizations, building and organizing subgraphs into a supergraph is crucial in helping engineers quickly build new apps. In this role, you’ll critically impact architecting new query language features. You will lead initiatives and collaborate with other developers, partnering with your engineering manager, product, design, and others to deliver best-in-class products that span our entire platform. You’ll work with talented folks who value code that is 80% of the value for 20% of the work, designs that are forward-thinking enough to be easily flexible for the next features and lead through ambiguity with a healthy dose of mindfulness and humility. You’ll help them grow and they’ll help you. <br> Apollo is the worldwide leader of GraphQL innovation. Companies like Netflix, Expedia, Peloton, DoorDash, The New York Times, and PayPal are just a small sample of Apollo's customers. Our open-source product has millions of downloads every week. Gartner estimates that by 2025, 50% of companies will be using GraphQL, and we're the clear market leader. <br> GraphQL is transforming the software development space by creating a brand new layer in companies' stacks called the supergraph that helps engineering teams ship faster and build richer experiences than ever before. Join us and build the future of Apollo’s Graph Management Plane!<h3>What You'll Do</h3> <ul> <li>Write, test, deliver, document, and operate fault-tolerant infrastructure using durable and stable public APIs, primarily in idiomatic Rust, but also in other languages, like TypeScript and Kotlin.</li> <li>Communicate confidently with users — whether community or customers — across a broad range of topics to understand their needs and debug their difficulties. Bring learnings, findings, and recommendations back to teammates, as well as Product and Engineering leadership.</li> <li>Research and produce clear and maintainable designs which are considerate of our platform of concerns while aligning with your technical Product Manager's requirements and engineers across teams and delivering for users needs.</li> <li>Participate in, consult, and lead architectural discussions that define how to operate best and observe graph routing software in customers infrastructure stacks using a combination of self-initiated research and real-world experiences.</li> <li>Collaborate with other engineers across the organization using supportive communication and constructive code-reviews. </li> <li>Lead, mentor, and guide other engineers in architecting and writing code in idiomatic Rust, ensuring that end-to-end consideration of the impact of changes is well-rationalized, and that proper cross-domain concerns have been accounted for. </li> <li>You’ll become a key domain owner for the team, taking responsibility for the success of every system and product you own, ensuring the relevant telemetry is being captured.</li> <li>You will lead cross-team groups of developers and shepherd large-impact initiatives along, either as the technical leader or coaching members of the team to become technical leaders.</li> <li>You’ll mentor junior team members and help with interviewing potential teammates.</li> <li>You’ll create technical designs that proactively address cost efficiency, security, and observability.</li> <li>You’ll deliver technical plans, one-pagers, DRs, and other artifacts.</li> <li>You'll participate in on-call rotation.</li> </ul><h3>Who You Are</h3> <ul> <li>You have experience with Rust.</li> <li>You have systems expertise and knowledge of stateless/fault tolerant systems, as well as familiarity with eventing patterns and distributed paradigms.</li> <li>You enjoy cross-team collaboration and believe in a “rising tides lifts all boats” mentality. </li> <li>You have the ability to work with many different team members across various orgs and positively influence others.</li> <li>You are data-oriented with a history of leveraging data to create a sticky, high-quality product for users.</li> <li>You’re excited about GraphQL and modern developer tooling, and are interested in helping push the industry forward.</li> <li>You like learning and proactively keep up with new developer trends through reading books, watching videos, taking classes, or something similar.</li> <li>You have a growth mindset.</li> <li>Bonus points if you have experience with GraphQL!</li> </ul>At Apollo, we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation whilst ensuring consistency within the team in each country. We make hiring decisions based on your skills, experience, and our overall assessment of what we learned during the hiring process.  <br> In addition to the U.S. base salary range, we also provide equity and benefits. Apollo offers all U.S. employees a choice of 3 Anthem Blue Cross medical plans and California residents can also choose from an additional 2 Kaiser medical plans. Dental and Vision benefits are provided by Sun Life Financial. <br> Location: This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere in COUNTRY NAMES [add any time zone or travel requirements]. <br> Equal Opportunity: Apollo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a talented and diverse workforce. <br> Privacy: California residents applying for positions at Apollo can see our privacy policy here. <br> E-Verify: Apollo is an E-Verify employer and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information please visit E-Verify. <br>

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