Product Designer, Marketplace
Own product design for Vercel Marketplace and Connect, shaping discovery, provisioning, integrations, billing, and partner workflows for developers and agents. The role requires strong systems thinking, product judgment, technical curiosity, and experience taking complex products from definition through launch and iteration.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own builder and partner experiences across discovery, installation, billing, management, and removal.
- Define how developers and agents discover, provision, configure, and use databases, services, and integrations across Marketplace and Connect.
- Simplify OAuth, permissions, environments, credentials, billing, and provider constraints without obscuring important details.
- Build and test working prototypes independently, using coding agents to explore product behavior and technical constraints.
- Conduct customer and partner research; use support signals and product data to identify opportunities, define success measures, and validate improvements through experiments.
- Collaborate directly with Product and Engineering through implementation, launch, and iteration.
- Create reusable design patterns and structure for Marketplace and Connect.
- Address foundational product problems involving provider dependencies and platform operations.
Requirements
- Portfolio clearly demonstrating design contribution, decisions, shipped outcomes, and post-launch impact.
- Experience independently owning ambiguous, technically complex product work from problem framing through launch and iteration.
- Strong systems thinking, interaction design, and visual craft.
- Ability to use qualitative and quantitative evidence, define success measures, and adapt based on findings.
- Experience making complex products clear and trustworthy, including edge cases, recovery, language, and accessibility.
- Ability to work directly with Product and Engineering, read APIs or code when useful, and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
- Independent experience using coding agents to prototype interactions, inspect implementation, and learn unfamiliar systems.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience designing a marketplace, integrations platform, partner ecosystem, or other multi-sided product.
- Understanding of OAuth, permissions, secrets, billing, developer tooling, or infrastructure products.
- Experience shipping AI or agent workflows involving human approval and autonomous action.
- Engineering background or experience contributing production web code.
Compensation and Benefits
- San Francisco, California base pay: $172,000–$258,000 annually.
- Competitive compensation package including equity.
- Inclusive healthcare package, flexible time off, mentorship and professional development opportunities, company-provided equipment, and a work-from-home budget.
Skills
Product Design, Interaction Design, Visual Design, User Research, Prototyping, OAuth, APIs, Accessibility, Coding Agents, Web Development
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