Staff Product Designer

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. They are seeking a Staff Product Designer who will lead design efforts, influence project strategies, and ensure accessibility in digital products while mentoring team members.

Responsibilities:

• Influence Discovery: You understand the context and business case deep enough to influence early-phase needs during discovery. You work with other leaders to clearly define a project's associated business value
• Working Group Leadership: You hold leadership and accountability in at least one internal working group (e.g., Accessibility, Design Patterns/System) to ensure continued growth and connection across the wider team
• Stakeholder Engagement: You actively engage stakeholders for product improvements and drive new project initiatives, ensuring the team is working toward shared goals
• Accessibility (A11y) First: You maintain a holistic design process that puts Accessibility first. You ensure work respects both technical and business-related constraints without allowing quality to be compromised
• Unbiased Prototyping: You are clear on the story you are telling. You select the right artifact for the right stage of the project, ensuring the fidelity of your work removes bias and sets a tone for a higher caliber of testing
• Reliable Delivery: You set the schedule for task completion and never miss a deadline you have committed to. You assist teammates in ensuring they hit their deadlines as well
• Collaborative Planning: When complex scheduling problems arise (e.g., scope creep), you proactively identify the issues and partner with Team Leads to replan appropriately
• Communication Standards: You set the bar for communication. You are conscious of others' styles and use your influence to allow everyone on the team to contribute
• Intentional Inquiry: You ask 'why' with intention—always seeking to create shared understanding and alignment
• Feedback Ecosystem: You help create an environment and team structure conducive to feedback. You model how to present feedback in a familiar, context-rich way, adapting your critique style to match the experience level of the designer you are mentoring

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in product design, with a portfolio demonstrating strategic impact and complex problem solving
• Figma Expertise: Extensive experience using Figma to develop concepts, prototypes and hi-fidelity designs, ensuring seamless handoffs and asset management
• AI-Accelerated Design: Expertly leverage AI tools (e.g., Figma Make, Gemini etc) to refine design requirements, rapid-prototype concepts, automate repetitive layout tasks, and streamline design validation cycles
• A Pacesetter Mindset: A proven ability to differentiate your work through innovation and critical thinking
• Systems Thinking: Experience leading initiatives that span multiple teams or systems (e.g., Design Systems or Accessibility standards)
• Mentorship Experience: A history of actively mentoring teammates and identifying growth opportunities for the team
• Operational Awareness: The ability to apply familiar processes while experimenting with new techniques to refine current practices