
51 - 200 employees
Founded 2007
☁️ SaaS
🤝 B2B
💰 Grant on 2024-08
SaaS • B2B
Optimal is a continuous user research and usability testing platform that helps product, design, and research teams validate concepts, run prototype testing, and recruit the right participants. It provides mixed-methods testing (prototype testing, live site testing, surveys, interviews, card sorting and tree testing), imports from design tools like Figma, and records screen/audio and mobile sessions. Optimal also offers participant recruitment (10M+ verified participants across 150+ countries) with fraud prevention and transparent pricing, plus AI-powered analysis that surfaces patterns, themes, and stakeholder-ready reports to turn user feedback into actionable product decisions. The platform emphasizes early and frequent testing, information architecture optimization, and generating business-impacting insights for teams and enterprises.
🕒 October 5
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51 - 200 employees
Founded 2007
☁️ SaaS
🤝 B2B
💰 Grant on 2024-08
SaaS • B2B
Optimal is a continuous user research and usability testing platform that helps product, design, and research teams validate concepts, run prototype testing, and recruit the right participants. It provides mixed-methods testing (prototype testing, live site testing, surveys, interviews, card sorting and tree testing), imports from design tools like Figma, and records screen/audio and mobile sessions. Optimal also offers participant recruitment (10M+ verified participants across 150+ countries) with fraud prevention and transparent pricing, plus AI-powered analysis that surfaces patterns, themes, and stakeholder-ready reports to turn user feedback into actionable product decisions. The platform emphasizes early and frequent testing, information architecture optimization, and generating business-impacting insights for teams and enterprises.
• Lead projects end-to-end from early-stage exploration through enterprise-ready delivery • Work with product and design to shape projects and influence architecture, UI finesse, and feature behaviour • Design, build, and ship new user research features • Deliver across React, Ruby on Rails, and AWS • Stay close to user needs and shape product direction through hands-on exploration • Contribute to architecture decisions and raise engineering craft standards • Mentor other team members • Take new ideas to market quickly and iterate based on real-world usage
• Deep, hands-on experience building and shipping products across the full stack • React experience on the frontend • Ruby on Rails experience on the backend • AWS deployment experience • Strong product mindset and user-focused approach • Strong UI skills and ability to build beautiful, performant interfaces • Ability to prototype and polish products • Experience leading projects and taking responsibility for outcomes from idea through delivery • Interest in integrating modern AI tools into user-facing products and using AI to build software • Proactive, self-starting, entrepreneurial approach • Ability to thrive in open, creative, cross-functional environments
• Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP) • Annual wellbeing allowance and support • Generous annual learning and development support • Home office set-up support • 4 weeks annual leave plus an additional day off on your birthday • Opportunities for professional growth and development • Flexible, remote-first working • Option to work from the Wellington HQ or remotely from anywhere in New Zealand or Australia
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