Senior Product Designer I
United StatesFull-TimeSeniorDesign / Creative
What You'll Do
- Overall Impact
- Act as the design lead within your tripod, owning usability and guiding discovery and alignment in partnership with PM and Eng.
- Own discovery and a minimum single problem area end-to-end, delivering clear, usable, and polished design hypotheses and solutions.
- Advocate for usability in tripod decisions and support discovery by contributing evidence and design insights.
- Deliver thoughtful design solutions that balance user needs, technical feasibility, and business outcomes.
- Share feedback and perspective with peers, supporting mid-level designers through collaboration and critique.
- Contribute to the design system through use, refinement, and feedback to ensure consistency across surfaces.
- Usability Ownership
- Own usability within your tripod by proactively surfacing risks, testing assumptions, and ensuring solutions are user-centered.
- Set and uphold the usability bar from early access to GA, ensuring iterative work feels usable, intuitive, valuable, and strategically impactful.
- Optimize for speed to value while clearly articulating smart quality tradeoffs and building highly usable experiences through a longer journey of experimentation.
- Translate product opportunities into clear design concepts, validated through lightweight testing.
- Participate in customer discovery sessions and synthesize research insights into actionable design direction.
- Apply working knowledge of products, users, and competitive landscape to inform product decisions.
- Design Execution
- Model practices of testing and experimentation that enable fast learning and continuous value delivery into the hands of customers.
- Deliver detailed design specs, flows, and prototypes that consider states, interactions, and edge cases.
- Create high-quality, intuitive, and cohesive experiences leveraging and contributing to the design system.
- Test design ideas and hypotheses through lightweight prototyping and usability testing.
- Collaboration & Tripod Leadership
- Act as the design lead in your product tripod, helping shape roadmap scope and priorities while ensuring usability and alignment.
- Drive project planning within your scope, setting clear timelines and priorities.
- Ensure timely delivery by balancing trade-offs and managing competing demands across design, product, and engineering.
- Facilitate collaboration across PM and Eng partners by making decisions visible, surfacing trade-offs, and building shared understanding.
- Support design QA in collaboration with Engineering and QA partners to uphold usability and polish.
- Team Citizenship
- Model strong design practices in critiques, team rituals, and cross-functional reviews.
- Actively research and share industry trends, benchmarks, and emerging design practices to help elevate the team and inform product direction.
- Proactively contribute to team rituals for your tripod (crits, QAs, planning) and provide support to your design team peers for a net positive impact. Share knowledge and feedback with peers, helping elevate design work across the team.
What You Should Have
- 5+ years of product design experience, including ownership of end-to-end features in SaaS environments.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and visual craft.
- Fluency in Figma and experience working with and contributing to design systems.
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, usability heuristics, and rapid prototyping techniques.
- Experience collaborating in empowered product teams (tripods/trios).
- Strong communication and storytelling skills; able to explain design rationale clearly to peers and stakeholders.
- Self-directed, resilient, and collaborative — you seek clarity, raise the bar, and support others.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with hypothesis-driven product development.
- Familiarity with user research tools and usability testing methods.
- Experience sharing knowledge with peers or contributing to design culture.
