# Staff Product Designer & Researcher

**Company:** [Netlify](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/netlify)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $196k – $232k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Figma, GitHub, HTML, CSS, User Research, Usability Testing, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, UI Design, Accessibility, Design Systems, Prototyping
**Posted:** 2026-07-27

> Lead strategic design and research initiatives to improve developer experience at Netlify. Drive projects from user research through UI/UX flows and features in close collaboration with product and engineering teams. Requires strong background in product design for technical platforms, research operations, and accessibility.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

- Lead projects toward user and business solutions, driving design work from research to fully realized features and flows.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and other partners to represent the UX team, build bridges, facilitate design or research kickoffs and discussions, and drive the user experience forward.
- Contribute to our design system and processes, including accessibility practices.
- Support your team with thoughtful feedback and shape how we tell customer experience stories at Netlify.
- Manage participant recruiting, participant followups, and incentives disbursement for all studies.
- Effectively communicate findings and recommendations to product teams and stakeholders that surface recommendations and implications.
- Work with product stakeholders to test business requirements using heuristic/qualitative methods, in a rapid way.
- Establish strong async communication rhythms with your peers and leaders, practicing transparency and visibility in your progress against areas of focus.
- Contribute to our expanding research practice and run usability tests in collaboration with research partners.
- Organize around multiple work streams, including prioritizing, iterating, and timeboxing work as needed.
- Create structure where there is ambiguity, can quickly adapt to organizational change and workstream shifts, and can help others navigate staffing and priority changes.

## What You'll Bring

- A history of leading design efforts at a strategic level for technical products, platforms, or systems.
- Proficiency at iterating & circulating concepts with peers and building toward high-confidence proposals, effectively prototyping and storytelling at various fidelities throughout the process.
- A breadth of experience in the iterative product development process, from problem definition, information architecture, and UX flows to interaction and UI design.
- A high level of comfort in working with developers in the presentation layer (for example, HTML, CSS) and is well-versed in using tools such as Figma and GitHub.
- Rigor for accessibility, consistency, and high standard of quality.
- Consistent autonomy and a drive to thrive in a cross-disciplinary and collaborative environment with product and engineering teams, where colleagues teach and learn from one another.
- Growth mindset: curious and open to new technologies, methodologies, and best practices.
- Experience in research operations including managing a participant database and setting up studies.
- Ownership in scoping, planning, and executing usability research studies, with minimal support and guidance.
- Welcome, but not required: other experience such as iconography, branding, front-end engineering, or content design.

**Compensation**: Our hiring range for this role is targeted at $196,000 - $232,000 USD for most US-based locations or $197,000 - $232,000 CAD for most Canada-based locations.

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