Lead Product Designer

Cortex is the Engineering Operations Platform that enables organizations to continuously improve their operational maturity and reduce developer friction. The Lead Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for critical product surfaces, defining user experience and translating complex engineering problems into intuitive interfaces.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the design vision: Lead and execute the design strategy for major product initiatives, setting a new standard for design and user experience at Cortex. You are relentless about crafting a delightful, industry-leading experience
• Elevate product quality and UX flow: Proactively identify and resolve complex user experience issues, focusing on streamlining core workflows and improving overall product usability and polish
• Design system ownership (Figma focus): Fully own the design system and component library within Figma, including specification, documentation, and governance, ensuring designers and engineers have scalable, reusable patterns. You’ll work closely with other designers consuming components and engineering teams implementing them
• Strategic Prototyping and Testing: Design, plan, and execute high-fidelity prototypes and user testing to validate concepts and inform design direction across the product management and engineering teams
• End-to-End Feature Delivery: Own the design process from concept development, through wireframing, high-fidelity mockups, and final handoff. Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to ensure features meet a high bar for user experience
• Maintain exceptional craft: Maintain an unwavering attention to detail to ensure product consistency, completeness, and a professional, polished user experience

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience as a Product Designer working on complex B2B or enterprise SaaS products
• Experience with developer tools is a plus
• Startup experience is highly desirable
• Proven experience leading end-to-end design projects with significant business impact
• Expert proficiency with Figma, prototyping tools, and user research methodologies
• Demonstrated experience owning and scaling a comprehensive design system and component library (in design tools like Figma)
• You can point to a portfolio of work that clearly demonstrates your ability to solve challenging user problems and execute with exceptional craft and attention to detail
• Passionate about creating beautiful, useful, and usable interfaces guided by user feedback, while maintaining the ability to make strong decisions in ambiguous situations