Staff Product Designer-UI

Stream (GetStream.io) is a fast-growing startup providing SDKs for activity feeds, in-app chat, and voice/video. Our APIs and SDKs power over a billion end-users across thousands of apps, including Strava, Nextdoor, Patreon, and Adobe.

Location: Amsterdam. We also support remote work (with a preference for EU) for exceptional candidates. Periodic travel between offices for team collaboration is encouraged.

Relocation and visa sponsorship is possible.

We’re looking for an experienced Staff Product Designer (UI) to own Stream’s visual language across every touchpoint—website, dashboard, and product demos (chat, video, feeds). You’ll define how Stream looks and feels, build a durable UI system around it, and ensure consistency from launch to iteration.

This role offers significant autonomy and impact: you’ll be shaping the UI of tools used by a global developer community and some of the most exciting apps on the market.

About design at Stream

At Stream, Design is critical for product development. Our designers work directly alongside engineers, ensuring a tight feedback loop and efficient delivery of impactful solutions. We are committed to building the leading platform for in-app chat, activity feeds, and video/audio experiences, and we recognize that exceptional design is critical to achieving this goal. We empower our designers to make significant contributions to our product, growth, and brand, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Job Responsibilities

• Highly proficient in using Figma, applying structure and using modern features.

• Partner with our Staff Product Designer-UX and translate UX into a coherent, world-class interface.

• Audit the existing design, set the north star, and close gaps across all parts -website, dashboard, and product demos (chat, video, feeds).

• Elevate our demos so they reflect Stream’s real product capabilities.

• UI Boilerplates: Create ready-to-use UI kits and example layouts that help teams and customers build faster.

• Launch-Ready Details: Own pixels and polish at ship time—states, motion, micro-copy, and accessibility.

• Mentor and collaborate with other designers to foster a high-performance, user-focused design culture.

• 7+ years of experience in product design, with a strong portfolio showcasing expertise in designing for developers (SDKs, APIs, or developer tools).

• Proven experience designing complex, technical products – ideally for developers.

• Mastery of design principles, UI best practices, and design systems.

• Deep understanding of developer workflows and pain points.

• Demonstrated ability to ship high-quality designs

• A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and a commitment to delivering exceptional user experiences.

• Passion for making complex technology feel simple and accessible.

At Stream, we use a wide collection of technologies to offer highly optimised and available features to our customers. Here is a shortlist of the technology that we currently use:

• Go, gRPC, RocksDB, Python

• Postgresql, RabbitMQ

• AWS, Puppet, CloudFormation

• Grafana, Graphite, ELK, Jaeger

• Redis, Memcached

• Direct impact in shaping the future of developer tools used by companies building with Stream

• Small (6 people), high-trust team with fewer roadblocks, tremendous autonomy and a chance to see your ideas make a material impact on the growth of the business

• You’ll solve meaningful problems for a technical audience that values elegant solutions

• You’ll get access to the tools you need to be successful

• History of success. From Amsterdam to Boulder and Techstars in-between, Stream has raised over $58.25M to build the best Chat Messaging & Activity Feed infrastructure available, with best-in-class support.

• Freedom and endless growth opportunities. As a rapidly growing startup (since 2020 we have gone from 30 to 150 employees), Stream gives you unique personal and professional growth opportunities. The opportunity of true ownership and accountability has a massive impact on your career. These are the things you can rarely experience in huge corporations.

• Be on the front line of progress and innovation. While working with cutting-edge technology, we are passionate about tackling difficult tech problems at scale and creating reusable components for them, empowering engineering teams to ship apps faster, more securely, and with a better user experience.

• They believe in us: Stream is backed by leading VC companies (Felicis Ventures, GGV Capital, 01.Advisors, Techstars, Arthur Ventures), including backers like Dick Costolo (01 Advisors, ex-CEO of Twitter), Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog), Tom Preston-Werner (Co-Founder of GitHub), Nicolas Dessaigne (Co-Founder of Algolia), Johnny Boufarhat (Founder and CEO of Hopin).

Stream employees enjoy some of the best job benefits in the industry:

• A team of exceptional engineers

• The chance to work on OSS projects

• Fully loaded MacBook Pro, 5K display

• 28 days paid time off plus paid Dutch holidays

• Company equity

• A pension scheme

• Hybrid work flexibility (3 days in-office)

• A Learning and Development budget

• Commute coverage: NS business card or a company bike

• Fitness stipend

• Bi-weekly in-office chair massages by a professional

• Healthy catered team lunches and plenty of snacks

• A generous relocation package, visa sponsorship and 30% ruling support

• An office in the heart of Amsterdam

• The opportunity to attend or present at global conferences and meetups

• The possibility to visit our office in Boulder, CO

Note: this list of job benefits applies to Netherlands-based employees and is adjusted per your location of residence.

Stream has a casual social culture, our team is diverse and we all have different backgrounds. Now, Stream is a team of over 140+ peers from over 35 countries across the globe.

We value transparency, aim for excellence, and support each other on our way to new victories.

Our team consists of the strongest talents worldwide, making Stream a great place to learn and improve your skills.

When it comes to software engineering jobs, our culture is oriented towards ownership and quality: our goal is to deliver stable software.

If you are interested in becoming a part of what we do, apply for this vacancy now!

Hybrid office policy: applicants based (or relocating to) one of our office locations are expected to work according to the applicable local office attendance policy.

Equal opportunity employer statement: Stream provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Note for external recruiters: We currently have this role covered and do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.