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Senior or Lead Product Designer

Ladders 🇺🇸 United States of America

$150,000 - $200,000 Full-time Senior

Own the product design process from discovery through launch, partnering with Product and Engineering to define problems, shape strategy, and deliver solutions across web, mobile, and responsive platforms. Improve customer experiences through prototyping, experimentation, AI-assisted workflows, design system development, and thoughtful critique.

Responsibilities

  • Own the product design process from discovery through launch, partnering with Product and Engineering to define problems, shape strategy, and deliver solutions across web, mobile, and responsive platforms. Improve customer experiences through prototyping, experimentation, AI-assisted workflows, design system development, and thoughtful critique.

Requirements

  • Requires 7+ years of product design experience and a portfolio demonstrating strong visual craft and product thinking, ideally in a startup or fast-paced environment. Candidates should have experience across web, mobile, and responsive platforms, strong problem-solving and product intuition, comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration, and curiosity about AI design tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Personal Page-Building Opportunity
  • 401(k) With 3% Employer Match
  • Healthcare Coverage
  • Employer-Paid Medical Option
  • Virtual Mental Health Support
  • Free Primary Care Visits
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Birthday Off
  • 13 Company Holidays
  • 14 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
  • Home Office Stipend
  • Wellness Stipend
  • Employer-Paid Disability Insurance
  • Employer-Paid Life Insurance

Key Skills

Product design process Discovery to launch Figma Prototyping Experimentation AI‑assisted design tools Claude Code Cursor Design systems development Web, mobile, responsive platforms Visual craft Product intuition Ambiguity navigation Rapid iteration Cross‑functional partnership Problem definition Strategic thinking User experience critique Collaboration with engineering

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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