Responsibilities

• Act as the design lead within your tripod, owning usability and guiding discovery and alignment in partnership with PM and Eng.
• Own features and smaller product areas end-to-end, delivering clear, usable, and polished design 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.

Essential Functions

• Own usability within your tripod by surfacing risks, testing assumptions, and ensuring solutions are user-centered.
• 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.
• 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.
• Validate design ideas through lightweight prototyping and usability testing.
• Act as the design lead in your product tripod, helping shape roadmap scope and priorities while ensuring usability and alignment.
• 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.
• Model strong design practices in critiques, team rituals, and cross-functional reviews.
• Share knowledge and feedback with peers, helping elevate design work across the team.
• Contribute ideas to improve team rituals and practices, supporting the design org’s continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 5–7 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.