Senior Product Designer Lead - OpenFn Automation Platform

The Senior Product Designer Lead will drive the design process and execute all design work independently, ensuring a user-centric approach that translates customer insights into actionable design solutions. This role involves leading visual design across various platforms and maintaining design consistency across all customer-facing tools.

Responsibilities

• Own OpenFn's complete visual journey: Lead visual design across our entire user experience—from marketing website and advertising through platform onboarding, daily workflow interfaces, CLI tools, and developer documentation—ensuring seamless, intuitive design language throughout
• Cross-property user experience: Design cohesive user journeys that flow naturally from initial discovery (marketing) through technical implementation (platform/CLI) to ongoing usage (documentation/support)
• Cross-property brand consistency: Ensure cohesive visual identity and user experience across platform, marketing site, and documentation—maintaining design system standards across all customer touchpoints
• Architect scalable design systems: Lead the development and maintenance of our design system, creating reusable component libraries and design tokens that support both platform development and customer-specific implementations
• Drive design system adoption: Document design patterns, usage guidelines, and implementation specs to accelerate sprint velocity and reduce design debt across teams
• Own sprint design delivery: Participate in sprint planning sessions, provide accurate design effort estimates, and commit to deliverables that align with engineering capacity and product roadmap priorities
• Transform requirements into design: Translate product requirements and customer feedback into comprehensive user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and production-ready designs
• Refine user stories for development: Collaborate with product and engineering teams to break down complex epics into actionable, designable user stories with clear acceptance criteria and definition-of-done
• Facilitate design decisions: Lead design discussions across Services and Product teams using GitHub issues for tracking, Slack for real-time collaboration, and Figma for visual alignment and developer handoffs
• Bridge design-to-code gaps: Provide implementable design specifications, review code for design fidelity, and troubleshoot UI/UX issues during development

Requirements

• 4+ years designing complex B2B/SaaS platforms with portfolio showcasing workflow tools, automation interfaces, or developer-focused products
• Dual-audience design expertise: Proven ability to create interfaces serving both technical users (developers, integrators) and non-technical users (project managers, analysts)
• Design system leadership: 3+ years building and scaling design systems including component libraries, design tokens, and governance processes
• Sprint-based delivery: experience in agile environments with demonstrated ability to estimate design effort and deliver within sprint cycles
• Developer tool understanding: Familiarity with API integrations, workflow builders, or automation platforms—bonus for JSON, webhooks, or integration concepts
• Cross-functional facilitation: Experience translating between technical and business stakeholders across multiple teams (services, product, engineering)
• User research integration: Ability to conduct lightweight usability testing and synthesize customer feedback into actionable design improvements within agile constraints
• Async communication excellence: Strong written communication skills for GitHub issues, Slack collaboration, and Figma handoffs
• Expert Figma proficiency with advanced features (auto-layout, components, variants, dev handoff)
• GitHub comfort for design asset management, issue tracking, and cross-team collaboration
• Documentation discipline: Track record creating clear design specs and component guidelines that enable team independence

Key Skills

• Designing complex B2B/SaaS platforms
• Dual-audience design expertise
• Design system leadership
• Sprint-based delivery
• Developer tool understanding
• Cross-functional facilitation
• User research integration
• Async communication excellence
• Expert Figma proficiency
• GitHub comfort
• Documentation discipline