Staff Product Designer

Summary

Join Rootly, a leading incident management platform company, as a Staff Product Designer to shape its design culture and create world-class user experiences. You will be a hands-on leader, owning critical workflows, leading cross-functional initiatives, and ensuring every product interaction is impactful. This role demands a strategic mindset, balancing user needs with business goals and technical considerations. You will partner with product and engineering teams, leveraging data and research to inform design decisions. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments and possesses a builder's mentality, seeking out ambiguity and delivering with speed and polish. Rootly offers competitive compensation, equity, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• 8+years of experience designing B2B or enterprise software, with a portfolio that showcases both craft and problem-solving at scale
• A strong track record of shipping high-quality products in fast-paced, high-ownership environments
• Mastery of interaction and visual design, with an eye for detail and a drive to remove friction from every flow
• Deep understanding of user behavior, mental models, and product dynamics —you design for clarity, not just aesthetics
• Experience owning or contributing significantly to a design system, including components, patterns, and documentation
• A strategic mindset that balances user needs, business goals, and technical trade-offs
• Clear, thoughtful communication —you can influence cross-functional teams and advocate for the user with confidence
• Builder’s mentality —you seek out ambiguity, take initiative, and deliver with speed and polish

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end user experience across Rootly’s product suite, from first-touch onboarding to advanced workflows, ensuring clarity, cohesion, and delight
• Drive design quality through hands-on execution, setting the bar for UX and UI across complex and high-leverage surfaces
• Champion simplicity —translating technical and operational complexity into elegant, intuitive interfaces that users love
• Partner deeply with product, engineering, and leadership to define product strategy, shape roadmaps, and influence what gets built
• Lead with systems thinking —design and evolve our design system to ensure scalability, consistency, and speed of execution
• Use data, research, and customer insights to inform decisions and validate direction—balancing vision with practicality
• Bias toward action —identify UX issues proactively, and move quickly to improve them without waiting for perfect conditions

Benefits

• Competitive compensation & early-stage equity in a fast-growing, VC-backed startup
• Ownership and impact - your designs will define the experience for thousands of users every day
• A high-caliber team that moves fast, holds a high bar, and is obsessed with great products
• Autonomy and creative freedom - the best ideas win, and you’ll have room to experiment, build, and iterate
• Flexible work environment with remote-friendly policies and annual company offsites
• A product that matters - we help companies respond to incidents faster, smarter, and better
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision
• 3 weeks vacation + unlimited sick/mental health days + company-wide shutdown EOY
• MacBook Pro of choice
• $1,000 for health and wellness
• $1,000 for home office
• Weekly happy hour on Friday
• Learning and advancement budget at your discretion
• Annual retreat - at least once a year we gather together in person 🏝️
• Ground floor opportunity to be an early member of a fast growing venture-backed startup