Sanity.io is hiring a
Staff Product Designer, Studio Developer Experience in Europe, North America

Summary

Sanity.io is looking for a Staff Product Designer to lead design on their Studio Developer Experience team. The designer will be responsible for maintaining and driving the development of the design system and component library used in the Sanity Studio, which is both an application and an application framework. The role involves defining principles and practices for the design framework, producing exemplary visual and interaction design, working with technical and business audiences, and designing for systems at scale. The designer will also facilitate discovery to arrive at unique solutions to complex problems, help shape the design community through regular design reviews and explorations on colleagues' projects, and offer mentorship to Designers. Sanity.io is looking for a systems thinker with web development experience, a relentless champion for the user, excellent communication skills, and at least 7 years of product design experience.

Requirements

• Systems thinker with web development experience
• Relentless champion for the user, whether content creator or developer
• Able to think big but start small and move fast
• Exacting visual and interaction design skills
• Comfortable working with highly technical and business audiences
• Adept at designing for systems at scale
• Excellent communicator, both verbal and non-verbal
• Working knowledge of best practices for the design process at technology companies
• Experienced in discovery tools and methods, especially facilitation and tactical research
• At least 7 years as a product designer

Responsibilities

• Lead design on the Studio DX team
• Strengthen our leadership position in the market
• Work in a group of like-minded, inspiring individuals to drive development and set standards
• Design systems that set teams and customers up to rapidly and assuredly deliver solutions with excellent usability and efficiency
• Own our design and component systems
• Develop insights through tactical research with enterprise customers and stakeholders
• Facilitate discovery to arrive at unique solutions to complex problems
• Help shape our design community through regular design reviews and explorations on colleagues' projects
• Help manage the team along with your Engineering and Product Manager peers
• Work on cross-team initiatives that have a broad impact on the product
• Offer mentorship to Designers, and raise design literacy across the org
• Continually elevate the quality of the team’s output through provocation and inspiration

Benefits

• Part of a highly skilled, inspiring, and supportive team
• Work in an environment that encourages long-term personal growth
• Remote in Europe or North America (East Coast/EST)
• Opportunity to work from offices in San Francisco and Oslo occasionally
• Healthy work-life balance
• Flexible hours and optional home office / remote-in periods
• Parental leave, health insurance, and PTO days
• Competitive salary and stock options program