Mission
- Define and design the future of next generation products operating at the intersection of craft and strategy.
- Push visual and interaction quality shaping team collaboration across devices and modalities.
- Architect complex design frameworks while caring about motion, spacing, clarity, and emotional resonance.
- Bring AI intelligence into the product as a companion with the right context and capabilities.
- Partner with research and product leadership to envision future business collaboration.
Player Responsibilities (Individual Contributor Work)
- Deliver world-class, high-fidelity design for new and existing products from concept to production.
- Contribute to and expand the design system ensuring consistency and scalability.
- Drive visual clarity, motion, and interaction rigor balancing usability and delight.
- Explore and define next-generation interactions for collaboration and shared workspaces, breaking vision into milestones.
- Work closely with engineers to ensure quality implementation and maintain design integrity at launch.
- Create prototypes pushing design thinking to visualize future possibilities.
Coach Responsibilities (Practice Leadership)
- Model design excellence, mentoring peers in visual craft, systems design, and conceptual development.
- Partner with design systems, research, and engineering teams to elevate quality and create unified experiences.
- Influence product strategy with design-led exploration and storytelling clarifying opportunity spaces.
- Champion accessibility, internationalization, and emotional engagement as core aspects of design.
Hybrid Responsibilities (Both Player & Coach)
- Reframe problems and connect dots across product areas to improve whole journeys beyond feature asks.
- Lead and facilitate workshops or design sprints to drive alignment and accelerate strategic decision-making.
- Collaborate with product, research, and data partners to define success metrics and evaluate impact.
- Advocate through example for design's role shaping product vision, not just execution.
Requirements
- 10+ years product design experience focusing on complex desktop or enterprise applications.
- Proven ability to contribute to high-quality design systems and product experiences at scale.
- Exceptional craft: visual clarity, spacing, motion, and interaction polish.
- Strong systems thinking understanding cascading design decisions across flows, surfaces, and journeys.
- Experience designing for enterprise and consumer audiences balancing complexity and clarity.
- Deep empathy for diverse global users, including accessibility, personalization, and inclusivity design.
- Curiosity and proactive problem solving exploring edge cases and anticipating constraints.
- Experience working cross-functionally in collaborative, iterative environments.
Preferred Experience
- Designing collaboration or canvas-based apps including nuanced 2D/3D interactions.
- Background in AI-assisted or humanโmachine collaboration design.
- Experience with free-form ideation tools or creativity support software.
- History leading greenfield or innovation projects from vision to shipped product.
