Staff Product Designer

About the role

The Product Design team at Pendo works closely with senior product leaders and sits at the center of product strategy and delivery. The team operates close to both the problem and the build, using LLM-assisted exploration, code-level prototyping, and customer validation before work moves into Figma for systems and polish. Designers ship across a multi-app platform with a high bar for craft, reliability, and product impact. As a Staff Product Designer, you will lead design across the platform and move toward the highest-impact work. You will own projects end-to-end, from problem framing through shipping, partnering with product and engineering to make sophisticated experiences feel simple.

Responsibilities

• Lead design across multiple product areas and own projects from problem framing through shipping.
• Partner with product and engineering to reduce complexity without losing capability, starting from customer need rather than feature requests.
• Build interactive prototypes using code-adjacent tools and validate them with real users before engineering investment. Use findings to sharpen flows, surface edge cases, and improve the work before full systemization.
• Use AI tools actively across the design process, including LLMs for problem framing and brief development, Cursor and Claude for prototyping, and generative tools for faster interface exploration. Document and share prompts, patterns, and workflows with design and engineering partners.
• Translate and evolve Pendo's design principles into reusable components and patterns. Identify when to extend existing systems and when to push them forward, then drive those decisions with stakeholders.
• Influence technical and product requirements upstream and communicate design rationale clearly with executive audiences. Surface issues before they become blockers and make the design case with data, principles, and demonstrated craft.
• Give feedback to other designers that is direct, principled, and growth-oriented. Share AI-native workflows, documented prompts, and repeatable patterns that improve the output of designers and engineers around you.

Requirements

5 or more years of product design experience across enterprise B2B SaaS, with demonstrated ownership across multiple surface areas or product lines at the same time.

A portfolio that shows measurable business outcomes, strong visual craft, and a clear point of view on simplifying complex systems. The work should be strong enough to stand on its own without a verbal overlay.

Proven ability to prototype in code or work close enough to front-end development to validate ideas without waiting for engineering. Comfort with tools such as Cursor, v0, Replit, or equivalent tools is expected.

Active use of AI tools in daily design workflows, including LLMs for framing and brief development, generative tools for exploration, and AI-assisted prototyping for iteration.

A track record of influencing product and engineering requirements upstream, with product and engineering leadership viewing you as a credible design voice rather than a downstream dependency.

Strong written communication and the ability to articulate design rationale clearly in writing, even when the artifact is not in the room.

Qualifications

Experience designing AI- or ML-assisted interfaces where AI output is a first-class part of the user experience.

Deep expertise in data visualization, including accessibility, interaction design, and data storytelling across complex, high-density datasets.

Experience contributing to design culture through shared standards, critique frameworks, or mentorship in measurable ways.

Familiarity with Pendo as a product or with the product analytics and digital adoption platform category.

Skills

AI-curious - genuinely. You're not using AI tools occasionally. You're rewiring how you work around them. You're faster, sharper, and more prolific because of it, and you bring that energy to everything — how you approach your work, how you prep, how you communicate, how you think.

Benefits

Hightly competitive, employer-heavy coverage, including $0 premium options, strong 401(k) match, equity, and flexible time off.

Pay

The expected salary range for this role to be performed in Raleigh, NC is $150,000 - $165,000.

Schedule

Pendo is a hybrid culture. In-office 3 days per week unless designated remote.