Staff Product Designer

Lead design for Merge’s core platform from concept through launch, ensuring high design standards. Collaborate with founders, product, and engineering teams to create user-centered solutions and maintain a design system.

Responsibilities

• Lead design for Merge's core platform, from concept through launch
• Be very opinionated, sweat the details, strive for simplicity, and relentlessly push the broader team around you to uphold an exceptionally high design standard
• Partner with founders, product, and engineering to translate strategy into user-centered solutions
• Create and maintain a design system that balances speed with consistency
• Conduct customer research and prototype high-fidelity experiences to uncover friction and validate ideas
• Push the org toward higher standards in usability, visual quality, and design process
• Mentor designers and influence how design integrates into Merge's broader product culture

Requirements

• Strong portfolio demonstrating deep systems thinking, visual craft, and an ability to translate ambiguous problems into practical user-centric solutions
• 5-7+ years of experience as a product designer, with additional involvement leading company-wide design initiatives
• Strong ability to articulate design decisions and communicate complex concepts clearly through compelling storytelling
• Strong collaboration abilities with other designers, product managers, and engineers, including exposure to mentoring more junior designers
• Expertise in Figma, UX research methods, writing product specifications, creating interactive prototypes, and conducting design reviews

Key Skills

• Figma
• UX research methods
• Writing product specifications
• Creating interactive prototypes
• Conducting design reviews

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO + 10 company holidays
• 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance
• 401K Plan
• $200 one-time home office stipend
• Free dinner when working past 7pm