Senior Product Designer
Partly đłđż Christchurch, Christchurch City, New Zealand
As a Senior Product Designer, you will take full ownership of large, complex product areas from discovery to delivery. You will design and ship high-quality experiences while collaborating closely with Product and Engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Own problem spaces end-to-end
- Lead discovery, framing, exploration, and delivery for complex product experience areas
- Identify the right problems to solve, not just how to solve them
- Design and ship high-quality experiences
- Create clear, intuitive flows and polished interfaces that make complex systems feel simple
- Produce prototypes and high-fidelity designs that are ready for engineering and scale
- Partner deeply with Product and Engineering
- Work closely with your PM and engineering counterparts to define strategy, break down initiatives into achievable milestones, and deliver impact with speed and quality
- Exercise strong product judgment
- Make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality, scope, and long-term system health
- Reason from first principles and clearly articulate your decisions
- Represent the voice of the buyer
- Use research, data, and direct customer insight to ground decisions
- Advocate for customer needs in prioritisation and product discussions
- Raise the bar for craft and consistency
- Set and model high standards for visual design, interaction quality, and system coherence
- Contribute to evolving patterns, guidelines, and systems
- Collaborate and influence across teams
- Facilitate workshops, critiques, and working sessions to align stakeholders and drive clarity
- Communicate progress and decisions clearly through narratives, prototypes, and artefacts
- Contribute beyond your immediate scope
- Actively participate in design critique, mentor other designers through feedback, and contribute to a culture of learning, ownership, and high standards
Requirements
- Significant experience designing and shipping complex software experiences in a product-driven environment
- A portfolio demonstrating strong design fundamentals, polished UI craft, and clear product thinking
- A track record of independently driving work from discovery through launch
- Fluency in interaction design and prototyping to explore, test, and communicate nuanced ideas
- Strong systems thinking and the ability to design solutions that scale beyond a single feature
- Confidence working with ambiguity and shaping direction, not just executing requirements
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional partners and explain rationale clearly
- A high sense of ownership, urgency, and accountability for outcomes, not just outputs
Key Skills
- Product design
- Interaction design
- Prototyping
- User research
- Data analysis
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Product management
- Engineering
- Design systems
- Systems thinking
- UX design
- UI design
- Human-centered design
- Agile
- Scrum
- Design thinking
- Figma
- Sketch
- Adobe XD
- InVision
- Framer
- Leadership
- Mentoring
- Cross-functional collaboration
Benefits
- High trust, low process and no bureaucracy
- Competitive base salary + equity
- Flexible working hours
- Focus Days: two days per week with zero meetings, dedicated solely to uninterrupted deep work
- Take time when you need it
- Offices in Christchurch CBD and on Aucklandâs Karangahape Road
- Learn from the best
- Quarterly season openers & annual global offsite
- Team connection: monthly team lunches, celebrating our wins, happy hours and more!
- Parental leave and flexible return to work
- Payroll Giving: we encourage generous giving and donate to the high-impact charities you support
About Partly
Partly's mission is to connect the world's parts. We're a team of automotive veterans and world-class engineers, with backgrounds at Rocket Lab, Microsoft, F1, Apple, and Intel. As a result of our team's collective and unusually diverse experience, we have the perspective to understand what needs fixing and the expertise to actually fix it. We're building the first foundational AI model for the auto parts industry. Our technology delivers efficiencies across the entire collision parts supply chain - from procurement to order management. Partly is independent from any automotive body and backed by industry-leading investors including Octopus Ventures, Blackbird, Squarepeg, I2BF, Ten13, Shasta Ventures, Icehouse Ventures, Peter Beck (Rocket Lab), Randy Reddig (Square), Dylan Field (Figma), and Akshay Kothari (Notion). Partly is UK-based, expanding into the US, with our core engineering team based in Christchurch.
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