Staff Product Designer, AI-Native

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Take the lead on the comprehensive design strategy for Nexus experiences, ranging from defining problems to interaction design, validation, and implementation.

• Transform cross-namespace connectivity, workflow communication, configuration, and operational visibility into user-friendly experiences.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to identify user challenges, investigate solutions, clarify requirements, and balance usability, reliability, scalability, and technical limitations.

• Craft unified experiences across Temporal Cloud interfaces, workflows for developers, APIs, and other product aspects.

• Develop high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and interaction models that cover ideal scenarios, edge cases, error handling, permissions, and recovery situations.

• Establish reusable design patterns and contribute to the evolution of the design system.

• Advocate for user needs in roadmap and architectural discussions by utilizing research, usability tests, customer feedback, and product data.

• Enhance the quality of product design through critique, mentorship, and well-defined design rationale.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in leading product design for intricate technical products, developer tools, infrastructure, SaaS, or applications focused on workflows.

• Proficient in interaction and visual design.

• A portfolio showcasing information architecture, complex workflows, prototypes, and launched product experiences.

• Ability to simplify complex technical concepts while accurately representing user needs and system behavior.

• Experience working closely with Product and Engineering on vague, cross-functional challenges from exploration to execution.

• Strong systems thinking and meticulous attention to detail regarding states, permissions, configuration, failure modes, accessibility, and operational context.

• Excellent communication skills with the capability to influence product direction through customer insights, design rationale, and collaborative decision-making.

• Remote-first availability within the United States or Canada.

• Willingness to participate in occasional in-person immersion sessions and team offsites.

• Background in designing products for distributed systems, workflow orchestration, cloud infrastructure, APIs, or developer platforms.

• Familiarity with Temporal, durable execution, cross-service workflows, or related concepts for developers.

• Experience designing for technical builders and operators focused on reliability, governance, and troubleshooting.

• Knowledge of accessibility standards, responsive design, and design-system practices for complex web applications.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Remote-first work environment

• Opportunities for occasional in-person immersion sessions and team offsites

• No on-call requirements