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title: 'Senior+ Product Designer / Builder at Swarmia'
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# Senior+ Product Designer / Builder at Swarmia

- **Company:** Swarmia
- **Location:** Helsinki, Finland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/swarmia/0b9b1146-d9b5-499c-957b-ce15663851ae

## Job description

Swarmia was founded to help software teams continuously improve how they work and build software. Every day, we work closely with some of the best software companies in the world, helping them build happier and more productive software teams. We aim to build the best-designed product in our category, and we have also been praised for our design and user experience (G2 – Easiest to Use, Fall 2026).

It's an opportunity to become an early member of a fast-growing company in an evolving space and influence how thousands of software teams work every day.

## About you

- 5+ years designing and building software, with emphasis on building
- You consider yourself cross-functional, combining product expertise and some technical expertise, which you can prove it from your experience
- You know when to do a customer interview vs. use product analytics to take a product decision, and when to trust a gut feeling
- You put effort into knowing your users really well
- You know how to run customer interviews, and do that at scale
- You know when to go to Figma, and when to build directly with Claude
- You know when to use AI, and when not to use it in your work.
- You can read code. Being able to make changes without relying on AI is a plus

## What you'll be doing

- Shipping new product changes every day (and sometimes multiple times a day)
- Working closely with engineers and your team lead, Mika, prioritizing synchronous collaboration to solve product problems together
- Owning the longer-term design vision of your teams’ product area
- Owning business context and success metrics for the product area you own, together with your product counterpart

The team you'll be joining

Dumbo is the team behind Swarmia's [effort model](https://help.swarmia.com/definitions/developer-effort-ftes) and the products that help engineering organizations understand how [they spend effort](https://www.swarmia.com/product/investment-balance/) and budgets across projects and categories of work. Your core audience is engineering leaders in Director+ roles who use Swarmia through the UI, API, Swarmia AI, and the MCP server.

## How we work

Read these before you apply - they're the most honest picture of the job:

- [The New Way: Building software in an agentic organization](https://www.swarmia.com/blog/the-new-way-building-software/) — why we start every feature with a prototype instead of a plan
- [We tried Anthropic's way of working, and here's what happened](https://www.swarmia.com/blog/anthropic-way-of-working/) — Campfires: sessions where product, design, and engineers ship the first iteration together
- [How we do product discovery at Swarmia](https://www.swarmia.com/blog/how-we-do-product-discovery-swarmia/) — written by one of our designers
- [How we use Swarmia at Swarmia](https://www.swarmia.com/blog/how-we-use-swarmia-at-swarmia/)

## About Swarmia

- We're a well-funded company founded in 2019. Our latest funding round was in mid 2025. Our team members are working in different cities in Finland and the US.
- We believe in improving software development so much so that we've written a book about it, it's called [Build](https://www.swarmia.com/build/). We also host a podcast called [Engineering Unblocked](https://www.unblocked.fm/), featuring guests from companies like Stripe, Webflow, and Sentry.
- We're moving fast. We ship new features every day, and write about them in our [Changelog](https://www.swarmia.com/changelog/).
- We believe in autonomous teams. Each team owns a product area and all its product context. You'll participate in customer research from day one, learning directly from the best software companies out there.
- We work together to solve customer problems — we call it Swarming it — and collaborate cross-functionally to make it happen.

## What we offer

- A highly experienced and motivated team
- 70–80 k€ annual salary plus a meaningful amount of equity
- 10 extra days of paid vacation when you start, on top of the regular paid annual vacation
- Flexible working arrangements — we work in a flexible hybrid setup, and you can choose between working remotely on most days or from our HQ in central 📍 Helsinki
- Great work/life balance — we're a startup, but we don't crunch or work at an unsustainable pace (many of us have kids and other activities beyond work)

## About Swarmia

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Swarmia provides an engineering intelligence platform that helps organizations measure, analyze, and improve developer productivity, developer experience, and business outcomes.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, $11.5M raised July 2025)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States (with additional offices in Helsinki, Finland; Denver, Colorado; and Boston, Massachusetts)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Otto Hilska (CEO) and Oskari Virtaoja (Co-Founder & former CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Software Engineering Intelligence / Developer Productivity
- **Target customers**: B2B – engineering organizations of all sizes, from small startups to Fortune 500 enterprises
- **Mission/purpose**: Help software organizations build better software, faster, by providing actionable insights across business outcomes, developer productivity, and developer experience.

## Products & Services
- **[Swarmia Platform](https://www.swarmia.com/)**: SaaS engineering intelligence platform that connects with codebases, issue trackers, and chat tools. Measures key metrics (DORA, SPACE), runs developer experience surveys, and drives continuous improvement through built-in feedback loops.
- **[Swarmia AI](https://www.swarmia.com/)**: AI-powered feature that allows users to ask questions in plain language and get instant answers from their engineering data.
- **[Swarmia MCP](https://www.swarmia.com/)**: Model Context Protocol integration enabling connection to Claude, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible AI tools for analyzing and visualizing data.
- **Custom Reports**: Build and save custom dashboards and reports tailored to specific needs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Revenue: $6.8M (LinkedIn estimate, 2026)
  - Total Funding: $19.6M across 4 rounds (Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Additional Venture Round)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Highland Europe, DIG Ventures (lead), Karma Ventures (lead), Alven, Lifeline Ventures. Also backed by founders and executives from Slack, OpenAI, Gorgias, and others.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 57 employees (18.9% YoY growth)
  - SOC 2 Type 2 compliant with bi-annual security audits
  - Recognized as market leader by G2, included in Gartner and Forrester research
  - Works with Fortune 500 companies alongside small startups

## Competitive Advantages
- **Comprehensive platform**: Combines business outcomes, developer productivity, and developer experience in one solution, with built-in feedback loops rather than just dashboard metrics.
- **Integration depth**: Connects to codebase, issue tracker, and chat tools (GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Slack, etc.) — data is automatically surfaced, not manually entered.
- **Scalable architecture**: Designed for both small startups and large enterprises with SSO, complex team hierarchies, and customizable setup.
- **Security & trust**: SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, rigorous security audits twice per year.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI integration**: Deepening AI capabilities (Swarmia AI, MCP integration) to make insights more accessible and actionable.
- **Scaling globally**: Expanding from Finland and US hubs to serve a broader international customer base.
- **Product refinement**: Continuing to improve features like targets, feedback loops, and custom reporting to maintain best-in-class experience for engineering leaders and individual contributors.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "High standards and low tolerance for nonsense" – the team values craftsmanship, customer focus, and building a company they genuinely want to work at.
- **Work model**: Hybrid – offices in Helsinki (HQ for design/engineering), New York, Denver, and Boston. Employees typically work from physical offices with flexibility.
- **Team experience**: Founders and early team members previously built products at Stripe, Atlassian, Meta, and Pluralsight.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on developer experience (the product mirrors the internal culture). The team is split roughly 37% technical (software engineers, data engineers) with flat-ish seniority structure and many individual contributors.
- **Perks & growth**: Fast-growing company (57 employees, +18.9% YoY) offering remote flexibility, competitive roles (Senior Software Engineer, Customer Success, Sales Engineer), and exposure to cutting-edge engineering practices.

## Sources
1. [Swarmia Homepage](https://www.swarmia.com/)
2. [Swarmia About Us](https://www.swarmia.com/about-us/)
3. [Swarmia Careers Page](https://www.swarmia.com/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/swarmia)
5. [Built In Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/swarmia)

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