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UX Engineer

at ThoughtSpot

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Are you looking to join one of the fastest growing software companies in the Bay Area? ThoughtSpot’s AI-Driven analytics platform is disrupting the BI industry by making analytics 1000x faster and easier for non-technical business people.

Ready to take on the challenge of building an AI and search experience for the 500 million knowledge workers of the world to better understand their data?

ThoughtSpot aims to fundamentally transform how people in business work with data and get insights from it. Just as Google has transformed accessing information on the web and Amazon has reinvented how we shop, we believe that using data should be just as easy with an anytime anywhere consumer like experience to help people discover what’s most important about their business. 

Our search-driven and machine learning platform is used by some of the most successful companies in the world – in industries such as retail, finance, healthcare and manufacturing. Instead of waiting for weeks for data scientists or analysts to provide data based insights about their business questions, any user can get instant answers to key questions.  Our search and machine learning experience returns results and beautiful visualizations in seconds across hundreds of terabytes of data to help users discover what’s most relevant and important to them. You can see more about product here http://bit.ly/22TEgmX and http://bit.ly/1NFxrOW

RESPONSIBILITIES:                                                                                                                                                               

  • Deliver innovative, engaging prototypes using the latest in front-end technologies.
  • Advise, collaborate, and synthesize feedback from UX designers, Product Managers and Developers
  • Fulfill several project requests simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines
  • Assist front-end engineers with final development 
  • Assist in the development of ThoughtSpot’s corporate website 

Requirements:                                                                                                                                                     

  • BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
  • At least 1 year of developing clean, valid and compatible websites and applications
  • HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript development experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Experience with Object Oriented JavaScript and modern JavaScript libraries (e.g. Angular, jQuery, Node.)
  • Experience with vector and motion graphics, including SVG, HTML5 Canvas, and Animation via JavaScript and CSS
  • Data visualization experience, D3, Highcharts
  • Experience with development on mobile platforms
  • Excellent communication, project management, and organizational skills

About ThoughtSpot

ThoughtSpot’s AI-Driven analytics platform puts the power of a thousand analysts in every business person's hands. With ThoughtSpot, you can use search to easily analyze your data or automatically get trusted insights pushed to you with a single click. ThoughtSpot connects with any on-premise, cloud, big data, or desktop data source and deploys 85 percent faster than legacy technologies. BI & Analytics teams have used ThoughtSpot to cut reporting backlogs by more than 90 percent and make more than 3 million decisions - and counting. ThoughtSpot’s customers include Amway, Bed Bath and Beyond, Capital One, Celebrity Cruises, Chevron Federal Credit Union, De Beers, Insurethebox and Scotiabank.

ThoughtSpot was co-founded in 2012 by its CEO Ajeet Singh and six other technical co-founders from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA and is currently expanding operations in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Backed by investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Geodesic Capital and Capital One Growth Ventures, ThoughtSpot has raised over $160 million to date. ThoughtSpot’s mission is to enable analytics at "human scale" and put search and AI-driven analytics in the hands of 20 million users by 2020. For more information please visit thoughtspot.com.