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.
About the job
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
Figma, Design Systems, Information Architecture, UI Design, Interaction Design, Layout Design, Navigation Design, Saas Design, Desktop Software Design, Prototyping
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