Ahrefs is seeking a strong Product Designer to join our Product team. This is a senior role that goes beyond traditional design responsibilities. In our company, we don't have a conventional product manager role, so our product designers take full ownership of their products, combining design, product management, and leadership skills. You'll work closely with engineers and data scientists, leading projects from initial ideas through release, managing ongoing improvements and support.
This role is based out of our Palo Alto, California office. Our product designers work side by side with engineers and data scientists day to day, so you'll be based in the Palo Alto office. This is an on-site role.
What you’ll be doing
- Contribute to shaping the roadmap for your product, working closely with leadership, Marketing (heavy users of our product), and Sales teams.
- Conduct research to understand user and business needs. Dive into technical details to identify possibilities and limitations.
- Sketch and prototype ideas to quickly validate their viability. Design elegant and intuitive interfaces, and drive them all the way to the final product.
- Lead projects, working with engineers and data scientists as you build, iterate on, and ship your products.
- Align and collaborate with other product designers to ensure a holistic user experience across the entire platform.
Requirements
- Experience designing interfaces and workflows for complex software products.
- Ability to manage projects from idea to launch.
- Strong visual taste and design skills.
- Ability to create high-fidelity mockups with great attention to detail.
- Ability to create prototypes to validate product ideas.
- Ability to collect and analyze data from a wide variety of sources.
- Understanding of software architecture and development processes, with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present and articulate product and design decisions effectively.
Location: Palo Alto, CA — on-site
Ahrefs does not engage with agencies or third party recruitment solutions for the roles we hire for. If at any point we need help, we'll let you know!
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Who we are
Ahrefs runs an internet-scale bot that crawls the whole web 24/7, storing huge volumes of information to be indexed and structured in a timely fashion. Our backend system is powered by a custom petabyte-scale distributed key-value storage to accommodate all that data coming in at high speed. With this data, Ahrefs builds analytics services for end-users in the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) space and a web-scale search platform. We are a lean and robust team who strongly believe that better technology leads to better solutions for real-world problems.
Our motto is first do it, then do it right, then do it better
Hear from our team
Every day is a new day where I get to solve interesting problems, or make improvements that have a positive impact on thousands of users.
Bryan Chen,
Frontend Developer
You have autonomy to make things happen. Despite the size of Ahrefs’ business, I’m part of a really lean team—cool things you see from our platform or events are the result of self-driven initiatives from each of us
Constance Tan,
Product Marketer
Being a Data Scientist at Ahrefs isn’t just about crunching numbers — it’s about learning, collaborating, and making real impact. The supportive team, challenging projects, and dynamic environment make every day an exciting opportunity for growth.
Xibeijia Guan,
Data Scientist
Hiring process
You apply
Simply apply for the relevant role on our careers site.
Recruiter call
Find out more about Ahrefs, our teams, culture, and get some hints on the process ahead.
An assignment
Real work from the team you’d join.
Team interviews
One, sometimes two, where you meet your future colleagues. There’s no LeetCode, coding puzzles, or whiteboard exercises.
Offer
No further rounds, no committee. Just look forward to joining the team!
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