Staff Product Designer - Foundry

HubSpot is an AI-powered customer platform, and they are seeking a Staff Product Designer to join their Foundry team. The role involves designing emerging products that solve real go-to-market jobs for small businesses, with a focus on AI-native interactions and rapid prototyping.

Responsibilities:

• Design end-to-end product experiences—from initial concept through launch and iteration
• Lead zero-to-one exploration, shaping ambiguous ideas into clear product directions
• Define and optimize activation and early value moments (e.g., delivering value in minutes)
• Rapidly prototype and test ideas to build conviction and gather real user feedback
• Design AI-native interactions, including conversational flows, system behavior, and feedback loops
• Simplify complex problems into intuitive, easy-to-use experiences for small business users
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and research to shape both strategy and execution
• Contribute to new UX paradigms as AI reshapes how software is built and experienced

Requirements:

• 8+ years of product design experience, with a focus on early-stage or ambiguous problem spaces
• Experience designing zero-to-one products or leading major new product bets
• Experience working in startup or highly iterative, fast-moving environments
• Strong product thinking, especially around onboarding, activation, and user value
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and defining problems before solving them
• Ability to connect user needs, business opportunities, and technical possibilities
• Experience in AI-native product design
• A builder mindset—you prototype, test, and learn by doing
• Ability to simplify complex systems into intuitive experiences
• Strong collaboration and influence across cross-functional teams
• AI-native fluency. You use AI daily, not as a novelty, but as infrastructure. You have a deep understanding of what models can and can't do, where they break, and how to design around those limits
• A hacker spirit. You prototype before you plan. You'd rather test an idea with real users this week than spend a month getting alignment
• First-principles thinking. You navigate ambiguity by going back to what's true, not what's been done before
• Deep user empathy for small businesses. You understand what it's like to wear multiple hats, to be the same person qualifying leads, running sales calls, and managing the website
• Intellectual curiosity without ego. You're comfortable asking questions and learning independently
• Founder-level ownership. You don't wait for permission. You experiment, you ship products, you get things done