Sr Product Designer

Job Description Summary The Senior Staff Product Designer is a strategic, hands‑on individual‑contributor leader who combines deep product and domain expertise with ownership of practices that strengthen the broader Product Design team. Embedded with a product team and partnered closely with Product Management and Engineering, this designer builds durable knowledge of customers, workflows, technology, and business context while shaping product direction and delivering high‑quality experiences.

Beyond their immediate product area, the Senior Staff Product Designer proactively identifies problems, frames them clearly, determines an appropriate path forward, brings together the people needed to solve them, and leads change through expertise, facilitation, and influence rather than direct people management. They help distribute knowledge and decision‑making across the team so designers can own and grow their areas of expertise.

• Build deep expertise in an assigned product domain, including its customers, workflows, business context, technical environment, and evolving needs.
• Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering throughout discovery, product definition, story mapping, prototyping, validation, design, implementation, and continuous learning.
• Translate customer needs, business goals, technical constraints, research, and product evidence into clear requirements.
• Influence product strategy and roadmap decisions through customer understanding, systems thinking, experimentation, and design expertise.

• Lead end‑to‑end product design within the assigned domain, moving fluidly between problem framing, workflow design, prototyping, validation, detailed interaction design, and implementation partnership.
• Design cohesive experiences across workflows, products, and user roles, applying established design‑system patterns and identifying opportunities to improve them.
• Use qualitative research, product analytics, customer feedback, business evidence, and technical input to inform and evaluate design decisions.
• Champion design quality through attention to usability, accessibility, and interaction details, working in partnership with the design‑system owner.

• Take ownership of selected Product Design capabilities or team practices in addition to embedded product responsibilities, such as design critique, designer onboarding, research practices, prototyping, design quality, or knowledge sharing.
• Identify recurring problems, capability gaps, or ineffective ways of working; frame the problem, determine the appropriate approach, and lead it toward resolution rather than relying on design leadership to solve it.
• Determine what expertise, stakeholders, evidence, or cross‑functional participation is needed to solve a problem and assemble the appropriate group to move it forward.
• Navigates road blocks, ambiguity and organizational complexity constructively, using evidence, facilitation, diplomacy, and sound judgment to reach better outcomes.
• Create and maintain reusable practices, frameworks, tools, guidance, or operating mechanisms that help designers work more effectively and independently, and evolve or simplify them when they are no longer serving their intended purpose.
• Bring design leadership in as an advisor, sponsor, or escalation point when their perspective or authority is materially needed while retaining ownership of the problem and follow‑through.

• Take visible leadership in team enablement based on areas of expertise, which may include activities such as design critique, onboarding, workshops, research practices, prototyping, or…