Honeycomb.io

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What We’re Building Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023! If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases. Who We Are We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers. How We Work We are a remote-first company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. #LI-Remote Little more about the team: As a Senior Product Designer on the Explore team, you'll be designing for the beating heart of Honeycomb — the core investigative workflows that every engineer depends on to debug incidents and understand their systems. You'll drive design from discovery to delivery for Honeycomb's primary data exploration interface, working to transform complex observability workflows into intuitive, accessible experiences that empower all engineers, not just experts. This is a highly collaborative role where you'll partner closely with product and engineering to reimagine how engineers visualize and interact with their telemetry data and democratize advanced debugging capabilities. What you’ll do in the role: Build deep empathy for engineers and technical users who need to visualize, ask, and answer questions of their telemetry data to investigate and solve problems in their day-to-day work, understanding their goals and unmet needs. Drive an iterative design process through research, ideation, and rapid prototyping (including AI-driven prototypes), creating feedback loops with product and engineering. Collaborate within your triad to explore, experiment, and ship features in quick cycles — surfacing opportunities, mitigating risks, supporting prioritization and moving from concept to production. Define workflows, interaction models, and paths to value that make Honeycomb's powerful data exploration capabilities more accessible and intuitive. Design experiences that showcase the unique power of Honeycomb to help engineers understand their systems better, faster, and with greater precision. Conduct user research through interviews, usability testing, and other methodologies to validate design decisions and inform product direction, working directly with customers throughout the design process. Share your learnings, prototypes, and design perspective widely — helping to establish Honeycomb's design voice in the observability space and contributing to the broader design culture. What you’ll bring to the role: Experience designing for developer tools, APIs, or technical workflows, with a strong grasp of how application systems work and developer pain points. Curiosity and empathy for engineers and technical users, paired with a knack for turning research insights into practical, user-centered design decisions. Fluency in iterative design methods — from discovery and research through wireframing, prototyping, and validation — and the judgment to know which approach fits the problem at hand. You can move fluidly between lightweight exploration and polished detail, choosing the right level of fidelity to drive clarity and decision-making. Understanding of how underlying data structures influence user experience design, particularly in complex technical environments. A collaborative mindset: you thrive in triads and across disciplines, inviting feedback, busting silos, and helping shape product direction alongside PM, EM, and peers. Ownership and autonomy: you bring a clear design point of view, identify opportunities proactively, and balance bold vision with pragmatic execution. Communication skills that make complex design ideas accessible and inspiring to diverse audiences. A bias toward learning and iteration: you treat every project as an experiment, adapt based on evidence, and consistently move work forward. Nice-to-have: Prior experience with observability, monitoring, APM, or DevOps tools. Base Salary based on level of experience $156,000—$183,500 USD What you'll get when you join the Hive: A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience Time to recharge - Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical A remote-first mindset and culture (really!) Home office, co-working, and internet stipend Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood Annual development allowance And much more... Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work. Phishing and Recruitment Scam Warning: We take your security seriously. Please be aware that recruitment scams are increasingly common and scammers may create email addresses or websites to impersonate Honeycomb employees. To help protect you: All communications will come from an @honeycomb.io email address We occasionally work with external recruiting agencies. These partners will use legitimate business email addresses—never personal accounts like Gmail or Yahoo. Our recruiting process will never ask you to provide financial or sensitive personal information, including but not limited to: Social security or tax identification numbers Credit card numbers Bank account information Diversity & Accommodations: We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace—where people of all backgrounds, identities, experiences, and abilities are welcomed, valued, and supported. We recognize that there is no single path to success and embrace nontraditional career journeys and diverse perspectives as key to building stronger, more innovative teams. We strive to ensure an inclusive experience throughout every stage of our hiring process and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations as needed. If you require accommodations or accessible formats at any point during our hiring process, please let your recruiter know. As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work. If there’s anything we can do to improve your experience, we’re always open to feedback. Privacy Notice: If you apply for a job at Honeycomb and your application is unsuccessful (or you withdraw from the process or decline our offer), Honeycomb will retain your information after your application for a period of time in accordance with local laws. We retain this information for various reasons, including in case we face a legal challenge in respect of a recruitment decision, to consider you for other current or future jobs at Honeycomb, and to help us better understand, analyze and improve our recruitment processes. For more information regarding our privacy practices please see the Honeycomb Privacy Notice. If you do not want us to retain your information for consideration for other roles, or want us to update it, please contact privacy@honeycomb.io. Please note, however, that we may retain some information if required by law or as necessary to protect ourselves from legal claims.