Staff Product Designer

Summary

Join Workleap as a Staff Product Designer and become a strategic leader, driving high-impact initiatives and setting design standards for ShareGate. Lead complex projects across multiple product areas, shaping scalable roadmaps and translating strategic opportunities into actionable design solutions. Guide teams in uncovering user needs through experimentation and data analysis, embedding customer-centric practices into design systems. Mentor peers, address systemic challenges, and ensure alignment with strategic goals. Set design standards, balance innovation and scalability, and use prototyping to communicate ideas. Evolve design systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to balance user needs with business priorities. A typical week involves connecting with the team, sketching ideas, leading workshops, prototyping, testing, collaborating on refinements, and participating in design reviews and team rituals.

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing experiences for business and enterprise customers with a proven track record of strategic impact
• Expertise in interaction design, visual design, accessibility, and inclusive UI patterns
• Strong collaboration with engineers, with a focus on systems that work in the real world
• A passion for empowering others, simplifying complexity, and improving quality at scale
• Experience mentoring, leading by example, and being a strong design partner
• A curiosity for emerging UX patterns, especially in AI-driven and adaptive experiences
• Fluency in design tools like Figma, and comfort shaping documentation and tooling
• Excellent communication skills — you make ideas, decisions, and systems feel clear and approachable

Responsibilities

• Lead complex initiatives across multiple product areas, shaping scalable roadmaps by identifying strategic opportunities and translating them into actionable design solutions
• Guide teams to uncover user needs using rapid insights, behavioral data, and MVP-driven experiments; embed customer-centric practices into scalable design systems
• Promote hypothesis-driven approaches, rapidly validating disruptive ideas through prototypes and experiments; mentor teams in lightweight methods for fast learning
• Mentor peers, address systemic challenges, and ensure alignment with strategic goals, establishing processes that improve quality, collaboration, and delivery speed
• Set design standards by balancing innovation, clarity, and scalability; use prototyping to communicate ideas clearly and push interaction boundaries through emerging technologies
• Evolve design systems and patterns to support rapid iteration, maintain cohesion across products, and collaborate to improve content integration and usability
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and other teams to balance user needs with business priorities, guiding teams through strategic trade-offs
• Identify and drive high-impact initiatives, encourage rapid experimentation and feedback, foster autonomy, and represent design leadership both internally and externally

Benefits

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