Staff Product Designer

About the role

This fully remote position offers the opportunity to shape the future of a rapidly scaling SaaS product through strategic design leadership and systems thinking. You will help build the foundation that enables consistent, high-quality product experiences across multiple teams and business areas. The role combines deep product craft, design system ownership, AI-enabled workflows, and cross-functional influence. You will tackle complex B2B challenges while partnering closely with product and engineering leaders to define meaningful solutions. This is a high-impact role for a senior designer who thrives in ambiguity, creates leverage through scalable systems, and raises the quality bar across an organization.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic design leadership across product initiatives while driving the evolution of scalable design systems, user experiences, and team practices.
• Define and maintain a high standard of product quality across owned experiences, ensuring solutions are intuitive, polished, and scalable.
• Lead the strategic evolution of the design system, including component libraries, documentation, governance, adoption, and AI-enabled design workflows.
• Identify opportunities for system improvements that increase efficiency and consistency across multiple product teams.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to shape product strategy and solve complex, ambiguous business and user problems.
• Design solutions for complex systems involving information architecture, shared components, and cross-product experiences.
• Conduct and guide qualitative and quantitative research to inform product decisions and validate design direction.
• Drive design initiatives from problem definition through execution, owning outcomes rather than only deliverables.
• Mentor designers, provide meaningful feedback, and contribute to team growth through reviews, coaching, and process improvements.
• Communicate design strategy and rationale effectively to cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders.
• Advocate for design excellence and help strengthen the role of design within product development processes.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing complex B2B SaaS products or similarly sophisticated digital experiences.
• Demonstrated experience operating across multiple product teams and solving organization-wide design challenges.
• Proven ownership or significant contribution to a design system, including component strategy, documentation, adoption, and governance.
• Experience with token-based design systems and component libraries spanning design tools such as Figma and development environments such as Storybook.
• Strong product design skills with a track record of delivering high-quality, user-centered experiences.
• Ability to independently navigate ambiguity, define problems, and drive initiatives from concept through implementation.
• Experience mentoring designers and improving team practices, standards, or processes.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence product and engineering leadership.
• Strong understanding of AI-assisted design and development workflows or interest in emerging design technologies.
• Experience working within design-focused, product-led organizations is preferred.
• Experience in accounting, financial services, or other complex B2B industries is a plus.
• Experience leading design communities, guilds, or cross-functional design initiatives is a plus.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• Stock options providing ownership in company growth.
• Remote-first work environment with flexibility.
• 401(k) matching program.
• Access to advanced AI tools and an AI-focused culture that encourages experimentation and innovation.
• Opportunity to work on meaningful, complex product challenges with experienced professionals.
• Annual adventure travel stipend after each employment anniversary.
• Collaborative culture built around ownership, trust, and continuous improvement.
• Opportunity to influence product strategy and shape scalable design practices.