About the role

Halcyon Data is hiring a product designer in Melbourne. You will own flows rather than screens: the research that frames a problem, the options considered, the one shipped, and the measurement that says whether it helped. Design sits in the same reviews as engineering here, from the first sketch onwards.

Australian offers are quoted excluding superannuation unless stated otherwise, so read the range below as base salary with super paid on top at the statutory rate.

What the work actually looks like

The work spans discovery interviews, interaction and visual design, and the maintenance of the design system that keeps twenty screens looking like one product. You will hand off in Figma with the states and edge cases already thought through, because those are where the real design decisions live. The team works a hybrid week out of Melbourne, usually three days together and the rest wherever you work best.

What we look for

This is a mid-level role. You should already be able to take a loosely specified problem, break it down and ship it without close supervision. We are looking for a portfolio that shows the problem and the rejected options, not a folder of finished screens. Fluency with Figma components and genuine care about accessibility and the mid-range device are what separate the strong applications.

Working at Halcyon Data

We work Australian Eastern hours, and the team is deliberate about not letting a distributed on-call roster turn into an always-on one. The range shown is the annual gross salary band for this role.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end flows from research through to shipped interface
Maintain and extend the design system rather than working around it
Specify empty, loading, error and edge-case states as part of every design
Run lightweight research and usability sessions with real users
Work alongside engineers during build rather than handing over and leaving

Requirements

A portfolio showing problems, trade-offs and outcomes
Expert Figma, including components, variants and sensible file hygiene
Understanding of accessibility standards and how to design to them
Comfortable designing for small screens and slow connections first
Able to take and give direct critique

Skills

Figma Design Systems User Research Prototyping Accessibility UX Writing

Benefits

Superannuation paid on top of the quoted base
Private health cover contribution
Four weeks of annual leave plus a quarterly wellbeing day
Flexible hybrid working

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Halcyon Data

New York, NY501-1000 peopleData Infrastructure

Halcyon Data runs the warehouse and streaming layer for consumer subscription businesses that have outgrown a spreadsheet but do not want to hire a data platform team. We ingest events, model them into something analysts can trust, and answer questions about churn and lifetime value that used to take a quarter.

Correctness matters more than throughput here. A pipeline that is fast and quietly wrong costs a customer a board meeting, so we invest heavily in lineage, replay and the unglamorous work of handling late and duplicated records.

We are headquartered in Manhattan with engineering in Seattle and an APAC team in Sydney that owns follow-the-sun on-call.

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