Staff Product Designer - Canvas Team
Goodnotes Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
The Staff Product Designer will define the vision and experience for the infinite canvas, leading design across multiple product areas to ensure interactions feel effortless and intuitive. This involves shaping how tools evolve across platforms and shipping well-crafted, performant experiences for digital handwriting and whiteboarding.
Responsibilities
- Design Vision and Strategy: Shape the design direction for the Canvas, creating a cohesive and scalable experience across platforms
- Collaborate with product and engineering leads to prioritize the roadmap and make strategic trade-offs that balance craft, performance, and delivery
- Craft and Execution: Design and prototype high-quality interactions for handwriting, navigation, diagramming, and collaboration
- Prototype and test at multiple fidelities to explore ideas quickly and validate with real users
- Turn complex concepts like infinite space and real-time input into elegant and intuitive experiences
- Build and evolve systems, components, and guidelines that enable design consistency and speed across teams
- Use qualitative and quantitative data to evaluate impact and refine design solutions
- Leadership and Collaboration: Mentor and coach senior designers, raising the level of craft and systems thinking across the organization
- Facilitate clear communication and alignment between design, product, and engineering
- Advocate for user experience quality while balancing scope, constraints, and business priorities
Requirements
- 8+ years of product design experience, including proven impact as a Staff or Senior Staff Designer
- Deep expertise in interaction design, systems thinking, and visual clarity
- Experience designing tools or creative products such as whiteboards, note-taking, diagramming, or collaboration software
- Strong ability to turn abstract concepts into concrete design direction and scalable systems
- Skilled in facilitating design reviews, driving consensus, and influencing without formal authority
- Comfortable working closely with engineers and understanding technical constraints
- Portfolio that shows clear thinking, high craft, and measurable product outcomes
Benefits
- Meaningful equity in a profitable tech startup
- Budget for personal development, professional training, and health & wellness
- Sponsored visits to the Hong Kong or London office every 2 years
- Company-wide annual offsite
- Medical insurance for you and your dependents
Key Skills
About Goodnotes
Goodnotes turns complexity into clarity. Goodnotes 6 - Notes Reimagined. Goodnotes is a powerful note-taking app that combines a natural handwriting experience with powerful AI-enabled digital capabilities. Whether you’re taking notes, brainstorming, or planning, Goodnotes empowers you to do your best thinking and creating. Goodnotes is used by more than 24 million users worldwide and was named Apple's 2022 iPad App of the Year.
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