Senior Product Designer, Core Tools

Drive end-to-end product design, collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, and researchers. Shape QuillBot’s next-generation writing editor and ensure a seamless user experience across the product suite.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end product design, from initial user research and exploration to final pixel-perfect delivery in close collaboration with product managers, engineers, researchers, and senior design leadership
• Take a senior role in designing QuillBot’s next-generation writing editor, helping shape its core capabilities, look and feel, and how users interact with writing in an AI-enhanced environment
• Partner with other designers to ensure the editor integrates seamlessly with our suite of tools, creating a unified, consistent, and delightful user experience across the product suite
• Contribute to and evolve our design language system, balancing reuse of patterns with the thoughtful creation of new, scalable components
• Advocate for user experience by deeply understanding user needs, behaviors, and the broader goals they’re trying to achieve, not just isolated feature usage
• Craft experiences that bring originality, joy, and elegance to complex interactions, using motion, micro-interactions, and visual storytelling
• Help nurture a culture of design excellence by actively participating in critiques, mentoring peers, and contributing to team rituals

Requirements

• Has 5+ years of experience designing consumer-facing digital products, ideally with complex user flows or productivity tools
• Has a portfolio that showcases systems thinking, polished visual design, and user-centered processes
• Understands and uses design systems, not just to maintain consistency, but to scale design across a growing product surface
• Is self-directed, thrives in ambiguity, and moves quickly without sacrificing quality
• Brings strong interaction and visual design skills, with a high attention to craft
• Is a prototyper—whether through Figma, Claude, code, or motion, to quickly explore and test ideas
• Writes well or values writing, understands how language shapes experience, and how writing and design inform each other
• Has experience designing for AI-powered tools or is ready to use their understanding to help build the UX of emerging AI capabilities

Key Skills

• Uses AI in their design process
• Has front-end development skills

Benefits

• Competitive salary & annual bonus
• Pension plan through the Zwitserleven Pension Fund
• A minimum of 33 days paid time off (including 7 public holidays and a day off on your birthday)
• A yearly personal development budget of €500
• Free consultations at OpenUp
• Discount and extra credits on a ClassPass monthly subscription
• A remote-friendly culture including working abroad for up to 3 months
• The flexibility to work from home, including a monthly working from home allowance of €60 per month
• Parenthood: minimum of 6 weeks fully paid partner leave & 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave
• Travel allowance: (NS business card or kilometre allowance of €0.23/km)
• Healthy lunch and snacks at the office
• Employee referral program
• Premium access to QuillBot & LanguageTooler