Staff Product Designer

The Staff Product Designer will create detailed, pixel-perfect designs for new product features and lead design and user experience for significant parts of the product. They will also mentor design peers and collaborate closely with PM and engineering teams to ensure designs are effectively implemented.

Responsibilities

• Creating detailed, pixel-perfect, and differentiated designs for new product features.
• Mentoring and collaborating closely with design peers to receive and provide feedback to raise the bar on everything built.
• Lead design and user experience for significant parts of the product; contribute to the design process from prioritization through launch and spearhead 0-1 initiatives.
• Becoming the voice of the customer by talking with users to understand their needs and goals and channeling that into designs.
• Working very closely with PM counterpart to understand company strategy and OKRs and positively influence the roadmap to drive maximum business impact.
• Partnering closely with engineers to make designs come to life and iterating collaboratively to address technical constraints.
• Leveraging and contributing to design system, Stylus, to ensure consistency and efficiency across product.
• Collaborating closely with design peers to receive and provide feedback to raise the bar on everything built.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing SaaS products for Enterprise customers (startup experience preferred).
• Curious about users and love chasing the “why, why, why” to deeply understand their issues and obsess over creative designs to solve them.
• Thrive in autonomy. Enjoy shaping the product, not just shipping it. Don’t always need a PRD to get started with your design explorations.
• Mentor and support others. Guide designers at various levels, offering feedback, coaching, and support that helps them grow in craft, confidence, and impact.
• Establish and scale design best practices. Proactively define processes, patterns, and principles that elevate team output and ensure quality, consistency, and velocity across the product.
• Appreciate the holistic craft of product development. Build credibility with your product and engineering counterparts through a deep understanding of and respect for their disciplines.
• Care about the details. Deliver the best end-to-end user experience and would never say “improving that is out of scope for this project”.
• Outcomes over output. Thrive on creating user value and know when to follow a multi-step design framework v/s when to deploy a napkin sketch to unblock the team.
• Think big and deliver incrementally. Love dreaming of “big ideas,” but balance that by designing incremental experiences for users at a high velocity.
• Strong POV. Discern good products from great, and stakeholders rely on you to be the “taste test” for great designs.

Key Skills

• SaaS product design
• Enterprise customers
• user research
• product development
• design systems
• feedback
• technical constraints
• design thinking
• HTML
• CSS
• GitHub pull requests

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits
• Equity in a hypergrowth startup
• Flexible PTO
• 401k
• Parental Leave
• Commuter Benefits (SF office employees)
• WFH Stipend