(San Francisco, CA)

Disqus is searching for a passionate, creative person to lead product design and user experience. Everything we do at Disqus is heavily based in creating rewarding experiences, and we're looking for someone who shares the same ideals. Are you a client-side developer who knows UX, has the graphical design chops, and are looking for a new challenge? Please apply with a link to your portfolio or examples of your work.

Responsibilities and Skills

• Help determine the best user experience across all aspects of Disqus, including the aesthetic look and feel as well as the usability.
• Take features from specs to mockups to implemented client-side code.
• Head usability experiments, such as using multivariate (A/B) testing to design and improve product flow.
• You will work with both the website application and the embedded comment system (widget-like applications).
• Design and implement features which will be used by millions of people on release.
• Work heavily with cross-domain issues and take advantage of the newest web technologies (e.g. HTML5), or bend existing web technologies to accomplish new things.
• Develop methods to improve performance across all combinations of browsers and platforms.
• Responsible for writing clean, semantic HTML and CSS.
• JavaScript experience is a big plus.

About You

• Fluent with all the appropriate tools needed, such as Photoshop or Illustrator.
• Skilled with visual and graphic design.
• Expert with HTML, CSS.
• Very experienced with common and obscure cross-browser and cross-domain issues, hacks, and solutions.
• Very skilled with UI and UX design.
• Understand user behavior and application flow. You make applications that are fun to use and leave people happy.

About Us

Disqus is a web service that builds and connects communities through a networked comment system. Hundreds of thousands of websites rely on Disqus to power their discussions, and millions of people regularly use the comment system in discussions all over the web. Disqus is the leading comment system, reaching nearly 80 million unique people per month.

Our company is a growing startup based in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. We are a small, tech-heavy team focused on building powerful, versatile software which perform and scale well, while being a joy to use and accessible to everyone.

Disqus was founded in 2007 and is backed by investors Union Square Ventures and Y Combinator.

In addition to the typical things, we have full benefits, a fun working environment in a great office location, and plenty of food and drink.

Our team is small and growing; we're looking for the best people to make up our core and help define the culture.

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