Staff Product Designer & Researcher

Netlify is the most popular way to build, deploy, and scale modern web applications, and they are seeking a Staff Product Designer & Researcher to enhance the developer experience. The role involves leading design initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and managing usability research to ensure a seamless user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Use your prior experience to lead projects toward user and business solutions and drive the design work and team from research to full-realized features and flows
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and other partners to represent the UX team, build bridges, facilitate design or research kickoffs and discussions, and drive the user experience forward
• Contribute to our design system and processes, including accessibility practices
• Support your team with thoughtful feedback and shape how we tell customer experience stories at Netlify
• Manage participant recruiting, participant followups, and incentives disbursement for all studies
• Effectively communicate findings and recommendations to product teams and stakeholders that surface recommendations and implications
• Work with product stakeholders to test business requirements using heuristic/qualitative methods, in a rapid way
• Establish strong async communication rhythms with your peers and leaders, practicing transparency and visibility in your progress against areas of focus
• Contribute to our expanding research practice and run usability tests in collaboration with research partners
• Organize around multiple work streams, including prioritizing, iterating, and timeboxing work as needed
• Create structure where there is ambiguity, can quickly adapt to organizational change and workstream shifts, and can help others navigate staffing and priority changes

Requirements:

• A history of leading design efforts at a strategic level for technical products, platforms, or systems
• Proficiency at iterating & circulating concepts with peers and building toward high-confidence proposals, effectively prototyping and storytelling at various fidelities throughout the process
• A breadth of experience in the iterative product development process, from problem definition, information architecture, and UX flows to interaction and UI design
• A high level of comfort in working with developers in the presentation layer (for example, HTML, CSS) and is well-versed in using tools such as Figma and GitHub
• Rigor for accessibility, consistency, and high standard of quality
• Consistent autonomy and a drive to thrive in a cross-disciplinary and collaborative environment with product and engineering teams, where colleagues teach and learn from one another
• Growth mindset: curious and open to new technologies, methodologies, and best practices
• Experience in research operations including managing a participant database and setting up studies
• Ownership in scoping, planning, and executing usability research studies, with minimal support and guidance
• other experience such as iconography, branding, front-end engineering, or content design