Staff Product Designer
Staff Product Designer leading cross-team strategy and hands-on design for complex, AI-enabled product experiences. Requires 8+ years of product design experience, exceptional portfolio quality, strong systems and prototyping expertise, and the ability to influence product and engineering leaders.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead design strategy and execution for complex initiatives spanning multiple teams, product surfaces, and customer workflows.
- Translate customer needs, business goals, technical constraints, data signals, and product strategy into clear experience direction.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to clarify problem spaces, sequence design work, and align teams around high-quality outcomes.
- Create prototypes, workflows, interaction models, and high-fidelity designs.
- Identify product experience gaps, design debt, and cross-team inconsistencies and turn them into practical improvements.
- Shape AI-enabled workflows, intelligent interfaces, and automation-heavy experiences.
- Strengthen shared patterns, design-system adoption, accessibility standards, and implementation guidance.
- Mentor senior and lead designers through critique, coaching, product judgment, storytelling, and design rationale.
- Collaborate across US and India time zones in a fully remote environment.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant product design experience leading complex, ambiguous, high-impact initiatives across multiple teams or product areas.
- Exceptional portfolio demonstrating staff-level craft, product judgment, customer empathy, systems thinking, measurable impact, and shipped product quality. Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.
- Experience shaping product direction beyond a single feature or team and connecting adjacent workflows into coherent customer experiences.
- Exceptional visual and interaction design craft, including hierarchy, layout, typography, grids, spacing, motion, usability, accessibility, content quality, and implementation detail.
- Experience across research, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, content strategy, and usability testing.
- Strong prototyping fluency using Figma, Framer, AI coding tools, or lightweight front-end code.
- Experience designing AI-powered, automation-heavy, or intelligent product experiences that provide transparency, control, trust, and useful guidance.
- Deep fluency in design systems, accessibility standards, reusable patterns, and scalable product experience decisions.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills with product managers, engineers, data partners, customer-facing teams, senior stakeholders, and designers.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
- Collaborative, low-ego leadership style with experience mentoring designers, improving critique, and raising standards.
- Experience using AI-powered tools for exploration, prototyping, critique, synthesis, or workflow acceleration is mandatory.
Compensation
- Annual salary: $190,000–$240,000.
Skills
Figma, Framer, Ai Coding Tools, Front-End Code, Design Systems, Accessibility, Prototyping, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Usability Testing, Content Strategy, Ai Product Design, Workflow Design, Typography
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