# Staff Product Designer

**Company:** [Alpaca](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/alpaca)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Design
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Product Design, User Research, UI/UX Design, Design Systems, Cross-Functional Collaboration, API Integrations, Design Leadership, Process Improvement, AI Tools, Mobile Design
**Posted:** 2026-05-21

> Lead end-to-end design for complex web and mobile applications while mentoring a design team and evolving design processes. Requires 12+ years of product design experience with strong user research, API understanding, and cross-functional leadership skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end design for complex web and mobile applications, from user research and discovery to pixel-perfect execution.
- Deeply understand diverse user base (global B2B and B2C customers, internal teams) and advocate for their needs throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Support efforts to shape and evolve design processes and rituals, exploring and applying AI thoughtfully to improve collaboration, creativity, and efficiency.
- Proactively bring stakeholders and users through the design process.
- Manage multiple product and feature launches across dashboards while consistently raising design quality.

## Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in product design with a track record of delivering design quality across multiple end-user touchpoints in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience leading a team of designers across multiple end-user experiences, aligning the team around product priorities and user-centred design strategy, while also delivering high-quality design work as a hands-on contributor.
- Passionate about understanding user needs through research and metrics and advocating for user experience throughout the product lifecycle.
- Experience facilitating alignment across product, engineering, and other teams, advocating for user needs with data and research.
- Experience standing up processes, rituals, and standards to ensure design consistency across the product ecosystem.
- Solid understanding of working with API-based products, advocating for user needs within API development, and strong understanding of how designs are implemented.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- One-time New Hire Home-Office Setup: USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

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