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AshbyAshbySan Francisco, CA

Staff Product Designer

Senior designer tackling ambiguous projects, refining design systems, and consulting across product teams for a remote SaaS talent platform. Requires 10+ years desktop SaaS experience, first-principles thinking, and exceptional craft in UI/IA/interaction.

180k – 240k
Remote10+ YOEProduct Design

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Consult for engineers on layout, typography, flows, etc.
  • Dig into problems via GTM consultation, customer talks, data requests.
  • Use Figma to create visual artifacts for alignment.
  • Write specification docs for design proposals.
  • Own larger product features: Jobs-To-Be-Done, navigation, IA, layout, interaction.
  • Build usability backlog from customer feedback using heuristics.
  • Refine design system for functionality, aesthetics, best-in-class quality.

Requirements

  • 10+ years product design experience, mostly desktop SaaS.
  • Break down huge, ambiguous projects.
  • Speak to high-performance design team patterns.
  • Influence engineering, product, company using design superpowers.
  • Create standards/principles for product org design quality.
  • Think from first principles, not standard UX processes.
  • Solve usability via intuition, minimal data/research reliance.
  • Curious, resourceful for creative, de-risked solutions.
  • Best-in-class: layout, navigation, IA, UI, interaction design.
  • Obsessed with craft & details.
  • Experience at early-stage startup or as solo designer.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Excitement for broad product impact, reinventing design models, design system build.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity (10-year exercise window).
  • Unlimited PTO (4 weeks recommended).
  • 12 weeks paid family leave (US).
  • Generous equipment/software budget.
  • $100/month education budget.
  • Top-notch health insurance (US, premiums covered).

Skills

FigmaDesign SystemsInformation ArchitectureUI DesignInteraction DesignLayout DesignNavigation DesignSaas DesignDesktop Software DesignPrototyping

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