Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join Netlify's growing Product Design team as a Senior Product Designer to enhance the developer experience. You will lead design projects, collaborate with cross-functional teams, evolve the design system, solicit feedback, and contribute to research. The role requires experience leading design efforts for developer tooling, proficiency in iterative product development, and comfort working with developers. While a specific educational background isn't required, experience with HTML, CSS, Figma, and GitHub is preferred. Netlify offers a competitive salary and benefits package, and welcomes applications from candidates in the UK, Spain, or Poland.

Requirements

• A history of leading design efforts at a strategic level for developer tooling
• Proficiency at iterating & circulating concepts with peers and building toward high-confidence proposals, effectively prototyping and storytelling at various fidelities throughout the process
• A breadth of experience in the iterative product development process, from problem definition, information architecture, and UX flows to interaction and UI design
• A high level of comfort in working with developers in the presentation layer (for example, HTML, CSS) and is well-versed in using tools such as Figma and GitHub
• Rigor for accessibility, consistency, and high standard of quality
• Consistent autonomy and a drive to thrive in a cross-disciplinary and collaborative environment with product and engineering teams, where colleagues teach and learn from one another
• Growth mindset: curious and open to new technologies, methodologies, and best practices

Responsibilities

• Lead projects toward user and business solutions and drive the design work and team from MVP to full-realized features and flows
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and other partners to represent the design team, build bridges, facilitate design kickoffs and discussions, and drive the user experience forward
• Own, maintain, and evolve our design system and processes, including accessibility practices
• Actively solicit feedback from your peers and stakeholders, including other product designers and cross-functional partners
• Support your team with thoughtful feedback and shape how we tell customer experience stories at Netlify
• Establish strong async communication rhythms with your peers and leaders, practicing transparency and visibility in your progress against areas of focus
• Contribute to our expanding research practice and run usability tests in collaboration with research partners
• Organize around multiple work streams, including prioritizing and timeboxing work as needed
• Independently support the design teams’ operational processes by establishing or following best practices that keep projects easy to parse and well-documented
• Create structure where there is ambiguity, can quickly adapt to organizational change and workstream shifts, and can help others navigate staffing and priority changes

Preferred Qualifications

Other design experience such as UX research, iconography, branding, and content design

Benefits

• Competitive salary (£77,000 - £104,000 for most UK-based locations)
• Robust benefits package
• Participation in Netlify’s equity plan