Staff Growth Designer

Posted 17 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in U.S.
Remote
170K-202K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Software
Harness is the AI-native software delivery platform company.
The Role
As a Staff Growth Designer, you'll create and improve user experiences to enhance activation and retention, using design and experimentation methods. You'll collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to identify challenges and implement actionable design insights.
Summary Generated by Built In
Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.
 
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.
Position Summary

As a Staff Growth Designer at Harness, you’ll design experiences that accelerate adoption, retention, and expansion across the customer journey. You’ll uncover where users lose momentum, design moments that re-engage them, and apply behavioral design principles to shape motivation, ability, and triggers. Every interaction should help users progress toward value naturally and intuitively.

This role blends high-craft design with disciplined experimentation. You’ll design and validate flows that feel intuitive and connected, using interaction, motion, and transitions to guide users seamlessly across states and surfaces. You’ll partner closely with Product, Growth Marketing, and Engineering to uncover friction, form hypotheses, and translate behavioral insights into experiences that are fluid, purposeful, and outcome-driven.

About the role
  • Design for impact: Create experiences that improve activation, retention, and expansion across key journeys
  • Experiment and learn: Design, launch, and analyze A/B and multivariate tests to validate ideas and accelerate learning
  • Collaborate across teams: Partner with Product, Growth, and Engineering to prioritize and deliver work that aligns user value with business outcomes
  • Use data with intent: Define success metrics with analytics partners and translate findings into actionable design decisions
  • Prototype rapidly: Build interactive prototypes and production-ready designs that bring growth ideas to life
  • Enhance onboarding: Identify and remove friction in setup and education, ensuring users experience value early and often
  • Drive Crossflow: Design cohesive transitions that reveal how our products work together and help users realize the full value of the platform.
  • Scale design learning: Capture insights, build playbooks, and share patterns that help the broader team design for growth
About you
  • 4+ years in growth design within SaaS or technology environments
  • Proven ability to design and iterate based on experimentation and user behavior
  • Strong understanding of growth funnels, behavioral design, and motivation frameworks such as the Fogg Behavior Model
  • Skilled in Figma and rapid prototyping tools
  • Experience with analytics and experimentation platforms like Mixpanel, Amplitude, or FullStory
  • Strong communicator who connects design intent to measurable outcomes
  • Experience collaborating across Product, Growth, and Marketing to drive adoption and retention
  • Experience with developer tools, CI/CD, or AI-driven platforms
Work Location
  • Remote from within the U.S or Hybrid from one of our offices in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, or Dallas
What you will have at Harness
  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
  • Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
  • Monthly internet reimbursement

The anticipated base salary range for this position is between $170,00 and $202000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.  The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers.

Pay transparency
$170,000$202,000 USD
Harness in the news:
  • Harness AI Tackles Software Development’s Real Bottleneck
  • After 'Vibe Coding' Comes 'Vibe Testing' (Almost)
  • Startup Within a Startup: Empowering Intrapreneurs for Scalable Innovation - Jyoti Bansal (Harness)
  • Jyoti Bansal, Harness | theCUBEd Awards
  • Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco, Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger
  • Harness snags Split.io, as it goes all in on feature flags and experiments
  • Exclusive: Jyoti Bansal-led Harness has raised $150 million in debt financing

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers

We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers. 

Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at [email protected]. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
900 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Harness is a leader in AI-native software delivery, dedicated to empowering developers and engineering teams worldwide. We revolutionize how software is built, tested, deployed, and optimized by driving efficiency, reliability, and speed throughout the software development lifecycle. At Harness, we envision a world where developers focus on innovation, free from repetitive tasks, supported by tools that streamline every step.

Our platform leverages AI and automation across all key pillars of software delivery: Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Feature Flags and Experimentation, Cloud Cost Management, Security Testing, and more. By automating traditionally manual processes that slow down engineering teams, Harness enables organizations to release software faster, reduce errors, and optimize costs—all while enhancing the developer experience and flexibility.

Harness is transforming software delivery on a global scale. As a pioneer in AI-driven automation, we streamline complex development processes, eliminate inefficiencies, and empower developers to innovate freely. Our mission is ambitious: enabling millions of developers to deliver code faster, more reliably, and with greater ease than ever before.

Why Work With Us

Harness is built on a culture of growth, collaboration, and transparency, where team members are encouraged to push boundaries and solve meaningful challenges. We invest in personal and professional development, value work-life balance, and foster a supportive environment—making Harness an ideal place to make a real impact in tech.

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