# Product Designer, New Grad

**Company:** [Palantir](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/palantir)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Product Design
**Experience:** 0+ years
**Skills:** Figma, User Research, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Prototyping, Visual Design, Interaction Design, Usability Testing
**Posted:** 2017-08-10

> New grad Product Designer role at Palantir owning end-to-end design of complex data-dense software interfaces. Requires 2027 graduation, design portfolio, strong collaboration, user empathy, and iterative process; involves research, prototyping in Figma, and close work with engineers and PMs.

## Job Description

## Core Responsibilities
- Work on product teams with minimal supervision and own end-to-end execution of real product features.
- Collaborate with fellow Designers, Product Managers, Developers, and Forward Deployed Engineers to refine and evolve the quality of Palantir products.
- **Interaction and visual design**: Define early product concepts, flesh out high-level workflows and micro-interactions, and execute crisp and effective visual designs. Use tools such as Figma for designing and prototyping.
- **User research**: Conduct informal user research, including visiting customer offices for interviews. Pair qualitative methods (e.g., scripted usability tests and contextual inquiry) with quantitative data like product and usage metrics.
- **Deliver and communicate designs**: Collaborate closely with product and forward deployed engineers to prototype and build products. Treat engineers and product managers as partners.

## What We Value
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills to build relationships with engineers, PMs, and stakeholders; convey and debate design rationale.
- High empathy and dedication to the user.
- An iterative design process: validate ideas early, seek and respond to feedback, move fast, listen, adapt, and prioritize collaboration. Adept at giving and receiving critiques.
- Excitement for solving hard, complex problems, especially in technically complex and data-dense interfaces. Ability to define simple, approachable, yet powerful product experiences.
- Willingness to learn, make decisions independently, and ask questions when needed.

## What We Require
- Must be planning on graduating in 2027.
- A portfolio demonstrating at least one software interface design project (include password for protected portfolios in application).

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