Staff Product Designer, Performance Reviews

Lattice is a unified people platform dedicated to building the next generation of its AI-native product suite. The Staff Product Designer will own the end-to-end user experience for the Performance Reviews product area, collaborating with cross-functional teams to revolutionize the performance review process.

Responsibilities:

• Own the end to end user experience for our Performance Reviews product area – a unique opportunity to revolutionize the performance review process for the AI era
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Data, and Customer stakeholders to define, scope, and execute against solving customer and business needs
• Design systems, not features –– understanding how the Performance Reviews product fits into the entire customer journey
• Partner deeply with other product areas to ensure the customer experience is cohesive, not disjointed
• Work closely with your engineering team throughout the design and development process, bringing your team along and then ensuring every detail of the design is implemented in a high-quality way
• Lead through ambiguity and own the hardest design problems
• Champion and evolve our design system, setting the visual, UX, and interaction bar for the team

Requirements:

• 7 to 10+ years designing complex workflows, in particular flows that move across or have impact on multiple products within a suite
• Expert-level understanding of visual and interaction design: including typography, hierarchy, spacing, grids, and responsive layouts. Capable of producing novel, high-quality UI and occasionally diverging from standard patterns when it elevates the overall product
• Strong systems thinking: proven success working with an established design system, by reusing existing components, as well as driving the evolution of that system by building net new components and layouts
• Experience working across multiple teams to connect the dots, regularly considering the holistic user journey and how individual design decisions impact the cohesion of that journey
• Experience deeply understanding customers and their needs, working closely with User Research and Data to collect and evaluate both quantitative and qualitative inputs, and incorporate those into your work
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a talent for succinctly articulating customer challenges and design decisions
• A reliable and proactive partner for product and engineering: you think at a high-level about your team's focus area and collaborate closely with your PM and Engineering partners to define the future of what your team owns
• A champion of feedback culture: regularly gives feedback that elevates other designers' work, mentors teammates, and models transparency in sharing and iterating on design
• A builder mindset: you're comfortable prototyping, working in coding tools, and using modern AI tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor, coding agents) to accelerate how you work
• An interest in applying AI tooling to your design process to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and depth of thinking
• Experience in a hybrid role (Design & Product, or Design & Eng) or an equivalent background (i.e. shipping code or heavily contributing to product definition as a designer)
• Experience in B2B SaaS, HR tech, performance management, or internal tooling
• A background or formal education in Graphic or Product Design
• HTML/CSS/JS experience