Staff Product Designer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Define and enhance the comprehensive developer experience across Walrus's product interfaces and essential workflows.

• Lead discovery initiatives alongside product and engineering by articulating challenges, pinpointing unresolved inquiries, and ascertaining required evidence.

• Conduct interviews with developers and usability evaluations, prototype solutions, and distill findings into actionable insights.

• Design intricate technical workflows that involve dense data, system states, configurations, resource management, and critical actions.

• Shape product direction and challenge existing assumptions within product and engineering teams.

• Establish and uphold Walrus's design system, including shared components, interaction patterns, and product principles.

• Benchmark similar developer and infrastructure products.

• Collaborate closely with engineering during development, design quality assurance, and the integration of partner requirements and feedback.

• Set and maintain standards for high-quality developer-product design as the organization expands.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8–10 years of experience in product design with proven ownership of complex technical products.

• A portfolio showcasing ownership of released developer tools, cloud/infrastructure products, consoles, dashboards, or other similarly intricate technical products.

• Capability to simplify technically complex workflows while retaining necessary control and information.

• Strong interaction design skills across data-intensive interfaces, tables, configurations, complex states, progressive disclosure, permissions, errors, and critical actions.

• Experience in independently identifying and framing product challenges rather than solely executing predefined requirements.

• Proven history of influencing product strategy and roadmap decisions through design.

• Strong instincts for qualitative research and experience with light user research and usability testing.

• Experience in creating or significantly evolving design systems and reusable interaction patterns.

• Strong collaboration with engineering and a commitment to staying engaged throughout implementation and design quality assurance.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to constructively disagree with senior product and engineering partners.

• Comfort in operating autonomously within an ambiguous, rapidly changing technical environment.

• Legally authorized to work in the location where the role is based.

• Must disclose whether visa sponsorship is currently or may potentially be required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.

• Generous vacation and paid time off policy.

• Opportunities for professional development and growth.