UX Specialist

Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding of their business and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 84% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.

At Neo4j, we’re proud to build the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers. These solutions have helped NASA get to Mars two years earlier, broke the Panama Papers for the ICIJ, and are helping Transport for London to cut congestion by 10% and save $750M a year. Some of our other notable customers include Intuit, Lockheed Martin, Novartis, UBS, and Walmart. 

Neo4j experienced rapid growth this year as organizations looking to deploy generative AI (GenAI) recognized graph databases as essential for improving it’s accuracy, transparency, and explainability. Growth was further fueled by enterprise demand for Neo4j’s cloud offering and partnerships with leading cloud hyperscalers and ecosystem leaders. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.  

As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.

The Team:

We’re seeking an experienced UX Designer to join the Neo4j UX Design team in Malmö, Sweden. You will help craft exceptional user experiences for our graph database platform; a powerful tool used by developers, database administrators and data analysts to model and query complex connected data. 

We believe in the power of collaboration and our product designers typically spend at least two days a week in the office for workshops and ideation sessions. Our team is diverse, ambitious, and committed to pushing the boundaries of design to enhance productivity and efficiency for our users. If you're passionate about design and thrive in a collaborative environment, we encourage you to apply!

The Role:

• Work with the Neo4j Aura platform, introducing new GenAI features, and providing user experience for fully managed graph databases.
• Design flows and experiences for developers, database administrators, and data analysts.
• Contribute to high-level strategic design decisions alongside our product team.
• Conduct user research and usability testing with technical audiences.
• Enable collaboration within the UX Design team, through gaining and providing feedback from other designers, and continually raising our bar for quality.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and users, in order to understand the requirements and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
• Advocate for a user-centered & data-informed design culture across the company and ensure UX consistency across tools and touchpoints.

You'll Need:

• 5+ years of experience in software UX design. 
• A proven background in designing SaaS platforms, developer tools, or data-focused products.
• Can demonstrate strategic product thinking and vision.
• A natural communicator; you will need to collaborate with fellow designers across the company, to work with colleagues in product management and engineers, and also conduct user research with various internal and external users. 
• Proven UX/UI experience through shipped products and continuous work
• Have experience with the end-to-end lifecycle of product design.
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced and globally distributed team.
• Comfortable with planning and conducting user research, and applying insights to product design.

Additionally:

• Familiarity with graph databases, data modeling, or backend systems, would be a great advantage.
• Have experience contributing to design systems.

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Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph database in the world. We have customers in every industry globally, and our products are a proven product/market fit. Joining our team is an opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics. Below are just a few exciting facts about Neo4j. 

• Neo4j is one of the fastest-scaling technology companies in this industry. It recently surpassed $200M in annual recurring revenue (ARR), doubling its ARR over the past three years. 
• Raised the biggest funding round in database history ($325M Series F). Backed by world-class investors like Eurazeo, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Inovia Capital, Neo4j has raised over $600M in funding and is currently valued at over $2Bn. This puts Neo4j among the most well-funded database companies in history.
• 84% of the Fortune 100 and 58% of the Fortune 500 use Neo4j. Examples include Boston Scientific, BT Group, Caterpillar, Cisco, Comcast, Department for Education UK, eBay, NBC News, Novo Nordisk, Worldline, and others. 
• Co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation, and customer success.
• Countless industry awards. Massive enterprises and individual developers/data scientists love Neo4j. A strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
• A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study cited Neo4j as delivering 417% ROI to customers. 
• Neo4j was named as a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems among 19 other recognized global DBMS vendors. Neo4j was also ranked as a Strong Performer among 14 top vendors in The Forrester Wave™: Vector Databases, Q3 2024.

Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don’t meet all the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we’d encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Neo4j, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues. 

One of our central objectives is to provide an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career-defining experience. We look forward to receiving your application.

Neo4j is a Silicon Valley company with a Swedish soul. We foster collaboration and each of us is empowered to contribute and put our innovative stamp on projects. We hire candidates who reflect the following Neo4j core values:

(we)-[:VALUE]->(relationships)
(we)-[:FOCUS_ON]->(userSuccess)
(we)-[:THRIVE_IN]->(:Culture {type: [‘Open’, ‘Inclusive’]})
(we)-[:ASSUME]->(:Intent {direction:’Positive’})
(we)-[:WELCOME]->(:Discussions {nature: ‘IntellectuallyHonest’})
(we)-[:DELIVER_ON]->(ourCommitments) 

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