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 cohesive user experience across various platforms. This role involves translating customer insights into actionable design solutions while collaborating closely with engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own OpenFn's complete visual journey: Lead visual design across our entire user experience.
• Cross-property user experience: Design cohesive user journeys that flow naturally from initial discovery through technical implementation to ongoing usage.
• Cross-property brand consistency: Ensure cohesive visual identity and user experience across platform, marketing site, and documentation.
• Architect scalable design systems: Lead the development and maintenance of our design system.
• Drive design system adoption: Document design patterns, usage guidelines, and implementation specs.
• Own sprint design delivery: Participate in sprint planning sessions, provide accurate design effort estimates, and commit to deliverables.
• 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.
• Facilitate design decisions: Lead design discussions across Services and Product teams.
• 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 and non-technical users.
• 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.
• Cross-functional facilitation: Experience translating between technical and business stakeholders across multiple teams.
• 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.
• 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

• Expert Figma proficiency with advanced features.
• 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.

Benefits

• Work on a product with global impact in health, payments, and social services.
• Join a mission-driven team with a modern async/remote culture.
• Have the freedom to shape user experiences that directly improve real-world service delivery.