Staff Product Designer
Motion Recruitment · San Jose, CA · 1 wk ago
RemoteRemoteArt & Creative$150k–$190k/yrFull-time
Core Focus
Own and drive end-to-end product design initiatives across multiple product areas
- Design System leadership is essential
- Shape scalable design patterns, frameworks, and user experiences
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap and strategic decisions
- Establish and evolve design standards across the organization
- Help create a world-class design culture focused on quality, usability, and business impact
- Lead design efforts from discovery and research through delivery and iteration
- Maintain and expand a scalable design system used across multiple products and teams
- Create reusable components, interaction patterns, and documentation
- Collaborate with engineers to ensure high-quality implementation and consistency
- Simplify complex workflows into intuitive user experiences
- Facilitate stakeholder discussions and align teams around user and business needs
- Define best practices for design processes and team collaboration
- Mentor and support fellow designers through feedback, reviews, and coaching
- Influence product strategy through research, insights, and design leadership
Requirements
- 10+ years of product design experience within software, SaaS, or digital product organizations
- Significant experience building, managing, or scaling design systems
- Strong portfolio demonstrating:
- End-to-end product ownership
- Systems thinking
- Complex problem solving
- Measurable business and customer impact
Skills
- Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives independently
- Strong collaboration skills with Product, Engineering, and executive stakeholders
- Experience working on complex workflows and multi-surface product experiences
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Comfortable operating in fast-moving and evolving environments
- Experience designing collaboration, productivity, workflow, or project management platforms
- Strong background in B2B SaaS products
- Experience designing scheduling, coordination, resource planning, or calendar-based workflows
- Familiarity with enterprise software and complex operational platforms
- Experience working in fully remote or distributed organizations
- Experience helping establish design practices, standards, and scalable team processes
- Previous experience mentoring designers or influencing design organizations
- Exposure to data-rich applications, dashboards, or operational tools
Pay
$150k - $190k
Schedule
Full-time, remote within Canada