Staff Product Designer

The Staff Product Designer will conduct research to identify user needs and collaborate with product and engineering teams to influence product decisions. They will lead design strategy for IDE/CLI and MCP surfaces, creating user journeys and high-fidelity design artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Conducting generative & evaluative research to identify pain points and user needs.
• Working day to day in R&D teams, influencing product decisions through user research.
• Collaborating with other designers to create one Snyk experience.
• Running workshops to understand and get alignment on the teams design priorities.
• Creating user journeys and flows.
• Using AI-Assisted prototyping to align and validate ideas early and often.
• Collaborating with the Design System team to craft hi-fidelity design artifacts.
• Leading highly complex projects in developer tools and AI security.
• Sharing your skills, coaching other designers, and helping to build our world class design team.

Requirements

• A strong background in Interaction Design, and experience working in developer tools.
• Ability to translate user-centered design methodology and practice into shippable deliverables.
• Strong critical thinking skills to understand user and stakeholder needs vs their wants.
• Experience leading the design in programs that cut across many R&D teams.
• Experience in designing complex enterprise applications.
• Experience designing and facilitating workshops to gain alignment and drive towards outcomes, and collaborate with engineers to solve challenging problems in an innovative way.
• The ability to actively participate in the process for problem discovery through to ideation, testing and delivery.
• Strong communication skills, especially with non-design stakeholders, to influence roadmap priorities.
• Confidence when interacting and communicating with customers in a range of scenarios, such as workshops, presentations and interviews.

Key Skills

• Interaction Design
• User-centered design methodology
• Critical thinking
• Leading design in programs across R&D teams
• Designing complex enterprise applications
• Designing and facilitating workshops
• Problem discovery through to ideation, testing and delivery
• Communication skills with non-design stakeholders
• Customer interaction confidence

Benefits

• Flexible working hours, work-from home allowances, in-office perks, and time off for learning and self development
• Generous vacation and wellness time off, country-specific holidays, and 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers
• Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance
• Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs, plus mobile phone and education allowances