Staff Product Designer, Knowledge Graph

Lead design for cross-cutting platform experiences and drive the end-to-end design process for features impacting users across the product. Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to shape priorities and ensure design intent is maintained through development.

Responsibilities

• Lead design on platform experience – Drive the end-to-end design process for cross-cutting features and workflows that impact users across the product
• Define both tactical deliverables that solve immediate user problems and strategic outputs that connect to longer-term platform vision
• Partner cross-functionally – Coordinate across multiple groups to align on platform-level experiences
• Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to shape priorities, scope MVCs, and ensure design intent is maintained through development
• Elevate craft and quality – Demonstrate excellence in interaction design, visual design, and systems thinking
• Raise the quality bar through thoughtful feedback in design reviews and by modeling high standards in your own work
• Contribute to the design system – Actively contribute to Pajamas by identifying reusable patterns, proposing new components, and ensuring your group’s work extends and adheres to system standards
• Mentor and support others – Coach Product Designers and Senior Product Designers through pairing, design critiques, and knowledge sharing
• Help onboard new team members and contribute to a collective team culture
• Ground work in research – Conduct usability studies, competitor evaluations, and formative research

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to lead design on complex, ambiguous projects that require significant cross-functional collaboration
• Strong portfolio showing end-to-end product design work, from problem framing through shipped solutions
• Experience mentoring designers and elevating team craft
• Proficiency with Figma and prototyping tools
• Excellent communication skills–ability to present work, articulate rationale, and facilitate alignment
• Experience collaborating closely with Product Management and Engineering
• Systems thinking and experience contributing to or working with design systems
• Familiarity with developer tools, DevSecOps, or technical B2B products is a plus
• Experience working in remote, distributed teams

Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

Key Skills