Staff Product Designer
Remote
Job Summary
Own the Walrus product experience by defining and evolving the end-to-end developer experience across product surfaces and key workflows. Lead discovery with product and engineering to frame problems before solutioning, bringing developers directly into the design process through interviews, usability tests, and prototypes. Design complex technical workflows involving dense data, system state, and high-consequence actions while influencing product direction and challenging assumptions. Build and maintain Walrus's design system to establish consistent interaction patterns and product principles that allow the product surface to scale coherently. Benchmark the market by analyzing comparable developer and infrastructure products to identify opportunities and avoid reinventing solved problems. Partner with engineering throughout implementation to review shipped work, catch problems early, and incorporate feedback from partners such as Legal.
Required Qualifications
- 8-10 years of product design experience
- demonstrated ownership of complex technical products
- A portfolio demonstrating ownership of shipped developer tools, cloud/infrastructure products, consoles, dashboards, or similarly complex technical products
- Demonstrated ability to simplify technically sophisticated workflows without removing the control or information expert users need
- Strong interaction-design skills across data-heavy interfaces, tables, configuration, complex states, progressive disclosure, permissions, errors, and high-consequence actions
- Experience independently identifying and framing product problems rather than primarily executing against predefined requirements
- A track record of influencing product strategy and roadmap decisions through design
- Strong qualitative research instincts and experience incorporating lightweight user research and usability testing into day-to-day product work
- Experience creating or significantly evolving design systems and reusable interaction patterns
- Strong partnership with engineering and a willingness to remain involved through implementation and design QA
- Excellent communication skills and the confidence to disagree constructively with senior product and engineering partners
- Comfort operating with significant autonomy in an ambiguous, rapidly evolving technical environment
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