Senior Product Designer
Job description
About the role
Product designers own end-to-end feature design for millions of creators, teachers, and persuaders. The role balances fast experimentation with polished craft to hit measurable outcomes while collaborating closely across product and engineering.
Designers shape how products look and feel. Designers create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished visuals. They test ideas with users and iterate on feedback. Design work spans research, interaction design, and visual design. Collaboration with product and engineering happens daily. Design decisions are judged by outcomes such as usability, conversion, and customer satisfaction. Most design teams keep a living design system to keep products consistent.
Key facts
What you'll do
Features are shaped through early exploration and refined into polished experiences at scale, guided by usability and craft. Concepts move from initial flows and wireframes to high-fidelity specifications that serve millions of users.
Product surfaces are designed through close collaboration with product managers, engineers, and other designers, aligning scoping, prototyping, testing, and shipping. Success criteria are defined up front so that shipped features drive measurable gains in activation, retention, and conversion.
Prototypes are built quickly and experiments are run to test ideas, with iterations driven by data and outcomes. Design solutions are validated through user research, usability testing, and critiques to ensure they meet real user needs.
Designs are partnered with engineering to verify feasibility, performance, and maintainability throughout implementation. Products are evaluated and refined through ongoing testing and critique to improve quality and usability.
Requirements
End-to-end product design experience is demonstrated through a strong portfolio of shipped work, ideally in productivity or workflow-focused tools. Candidates show 5 or more years of responsible ownership across research, design, and launch.
Proficiency in Figma and modern prototyping tools is required to produce clear specs and collaborate effectively with engineering teams. A metrics-minded approach is used to set success criteria and evaluate whether shipped features move key product metrics.
Strong visual design skills are applied with attention to detail, supported by an understanding of design systems and judgment to balance craft with delivery speed. Experience working in small, fast-paced teams is needed to manage projects from research through shipped UI.
Fluency with modern productivity tools or ecosystems such as Notion, Craft, or similar is required to understand how users actually work in these products. Fluency with AI-powered design tools and workflows, including AI prototyping and generative design, is needed to incorporate the best practices into the process.
Practical notes
The team maintains a strong in-office culture, working in person four to five days per week in San Francisco with flexibility to work from home for focused work. Typical interview steps
Design interviews usually include a portfolio review, a design exercise, and a team conversation. Candidates present past work and explain their process and decisions. Some loops include a live design challenge. Communication matters as much as the visual output. Portfolios are strongest when they show the problem, the constraints, and the iteration, not just the final screens. Interviewers also watch how you take feedback.
Good to know
Design roles of this level often involve scoping ambiguous problems and owning outcomes from discovery to delivery. Modern product design for productivity tools relies heavily on design systems, collaboration, and fast iteration. Fluency with AI-assisted workflows is increasingly relevant for interface design and prototyping in current practice.
Career growth
Design careers grow from junior to senior, staff, and principal levels. Some designers move into design management or design operations. Specializations include UX research, interaction design, and brand design. Cross-functional influence grows with seniority. Senior designers are expected to influence product strategy, not just execute visuals. Building a habit of user research strengthens any design career.