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Staff Product Designer

Ladders 🇺🇸 United States of America

$145,000 - $200,000 Full-time Senior

Define product initiatives with cross-functional teams and lead design from strategy through execution, producing high-quality user experiences, interactions, and prototypes. Use AI-enabled workflows, user research, and design systems to explore ideas, address user needs, and maintain high design standards.

Responsibilities

  • Define product initiatives with cross-functional teams and lead design from strategy through execution, producing high-quality user experiences, interactions, and prototypes. Use AI-enabled workflows, user research, and design systems to explore ideas, address user needs, and maintain high design standards.

Requirements

  • Requires at least seven years of product design experience, a strong portfolio with case studies demonstrating typography and visual design, and the ability to turn complex challenges into intuitive experiences. Candidates should be comfortable moving between detailed execution and strategic thinking, understand evolving design systems, and demonstrate adaptability, storytelling, and communication skills.

Benefits

  • Healthcare Coverage
  • Parental Leave
  • Company Off-Sites
  • Mental Health Support
  • Financial Wellness Assistance
  • Co-Working Space Stipend
  • Professional Development Stipend
  • Home Office Stipend
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Standard Holidays
  • Discounted Membership

Key Skills

Product design User experience design User interface design AI‑enabled design workflows User research Design systems Typography Visual design High‑fidelity prototyping Storytelling Strategic thinking Cross‑functional collaboration Communication Adaptability Figma Sketch Adobe XD InVision Design thinking Agile methodology Mentoring junior designers Data‑driven design Interaction design Wireframing Usability testing Rapid iteration Problem solving

About Ladders

We lead the leaders. Ladder’s community of 10 mm leading professionals come to us to be inspired, grow in their careers, and get ahead in their professional lives. We focus on the $100K+ job market, representing 25% of all jobs and about 50% of income in the US & Canada. We build data-driven tools, marketplaces, news and entertainment products for our growing audience, and the companies, recruiters, and advertisers that want to reach them. We work best with people who enjoy using their talents, commitment and hard work to achieve great successes for millions of real life users through products that impact their careers. We are deeply technology-driven -- about half the company are engineers, technical product people or product designers -- but we never build technology for technology’s sake. We’re always trying to connect our efforts to the good it can do in people’s lives.

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