Senior Product Designer (Design Systems, Accessibility)

About the Team:

Our growing Product Design team is looking for a Senior Product Designer to help evolve the product experience in collaboration with a diverse group of cross-functional partners in engineering, developer education, product management, support, marketing, and sales.

As a critical member of our Design Team, you’ll keep our users at the center of your process and balance near- and long-term initiatives that drive us toward building a better web. With our team, you’ll share and collaborate early and often, driving and facilitating meaningful discussion with a blend of in-person and async transparent communication. You’ll lead initiatives ranging from iterative feature improvements to explorations with high ambiguity that demand innovation. There’s plenty to do, so be ready to roll up your sleeves to help shape our team and raise the quality of developer and team experiences.

What You’ll Do: 

• Use your prior experience to 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 mainly Product and Engineering partners to represent the design team, build bridges, facilitate design kickoffs and discussions, and drive the user experience forward.
• Partner directly with the Marketing Design team on overlapping visual language between marketing and in-app surfaces.
• Own, maintain, and evolve our design system to help streamline the design and collaborative cross-team processes.
• Weave best accessibility practices into every phase of the design process.
• Actively solicit feedback from your peers, 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.
• Wrangle feedback from multiple stakeholders to arrive at a shared but opinionated solution.
• 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.

What You'll Bring: 

• A history of leading design efforts at a strategic level and shipping products related to developer tooling.
• A breadth of experience in the iterative product development process, from problem definition, information architecture, and UX flows to interaction and UI design.
• Rigor for accessibility, consistency, and high standard of quality.
• 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.
• Consistent autonomy, pairing remotely or working async with peers and enjoyment working with diverse people within other functions.
• Proficiency at iterating & circulating concepts with peers and building toward high-confidence proposals, effectively prototyping and storytelling at various fidelities throughout the process.
• Drive in creating structure where there is ambiguity, can quickly adapt to organizational change and workstream shifts, and can help others navigate staffing and priority changes.
• Can effectively communicate decision rationale and point to measurable impact of work.
• Growth-oriented; curious and open to new technologies, methodologies, and best practices.
• Thrives in a cross-disciplinary and collaborative environment with product and engineering teams, where colleagues teach and learn from one another.
• We don’t have educational requirements for roles at Netlify, so whether you went to a school or are self-taught, we encourage you to apply.
• Preferred but not required: other design experience such as UX research, iconography, branding, and content design.
• We welcome candidates based in the United States or Canada for this position.

Applying

Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? Please apply anyway!

When applying please include: 

A resume or short listing of your job history & skills (link to a LinkedIn profile would be fine). We appreciate a cover letter explaining why you would enjoy working in this role at Netlify to get to know you a bit better, though this is not required and will not impact your application. Our mission is to “build a better web” and that cannot be done without a diversity of skill sets, backgrounds and thoughts. 

Of everything we've ever built at Netlify, we are most proud of our team. Netlify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are devoted to building a team of people with diverse backgrounds and lifestyles. Driving equality empowers our team, enables us to innovate, and helps us maintain a more inclusive environment. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, race, military/veteran status, citizenship, pregnancy status, or any other differences. If we can do anything to provide a better interview, i.e. accommodate a disability, then please let us know by emailing [email protected]. 

About Netlify

At Netlify, we’re on a mission to build a better web by making it easier than ever to build, deploy, and scale web applications. By unifying an entire ecosystem of web development tools, content sources, services, and APIs into one simplified workflow, Netlify empowers top brands to ship campaigns faster, reduce risk, and boost productivity and revenue. At the forefront of the composable web movement, with over 4 million web developers and businesses using the platform, with Netlify, you can connect everything and build anything. 

We are a Series D company that has raised over $200M from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, EQT, Bessemer, BOND, and Menlo Ventures. As a fully distributed company, we aim to create a company culture where the best idea can come from anywhere and strive to be thoughtful, compassionate, and collaborative in our work. If this sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’re excited to connect with you!

At Netlify, we are committed to a compensation philosophy that prioritizes fairness and equity, positions our employee compensation competitively in the market, recognizes and rewards performance, and takes a comprehensive approach to our rewards package. We anchor our compensation philosophy on a market-based approach, therefore salary ranges may differ depending on the labor cost in a particular location. The salary provided is in addition to robust benefits and participation in Netlify’s equity plan. Our base compensation for this role is targeted at $150,000 - $204,000 for most US-based locations. Candidates outside the US or in premium markets should consult with their Talent Acquisition partner regarding location-based ranges, as they may be higher or lower than the average US range listed. The starting pay will be determined based on multiple factors, including expertise and skills, market demands, experience, internal equity, and applicable geographic location. These compensation packages and ranges are subject to change and may be modified in the future.