Staff Product Designer

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

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of the design process for GrantOS across Platform, Core, and enterprise, encompassing discovery, shipping, and iterations.

• Establish data relationships, permission models, and integration points throughout product workflows.

• Set interaction patterns and foundational design system principles that are adopted by other product areas.

• Create connections across pods to ensure that changes enhance subsequent workflows.

• Lead the definition in greenfield, zero-to-one product environments.

• Draft briefs, clarify problems, and outline roadmap direction in collaboration with the PM.

• Make informed decisions despite incomplete information and prioritize work for swift learning.

• Influence how grant professionals handle tasks, reporting, and integrations throughout the grant lifecycle.

• Recruit participants, conduct interviews, and convert user needs into product direction.

• Champion user advocacy and question any unsuitable product decisions.

• Ensure alignment between engineering, product, and GTM teams on company direction.

• Elevate design quality and mentor fellow designers.

• Report directly to the Head of Design.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of product design experience, with significant time spent in staff or principal roles, having managed entire product domains rather than just features.

• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of a platform or core product area in intricate B2B or enterprise SaaS environments, including data models, permissions, integration points, and patterns utilized by other teams.

• Successfully launched new product initiatives alongside platform work, contributing to 0-to-1 areas that you helped define rather than receiving as fully specified projects.

• Extensive involvement in user research from beginning to end, including planning, recruiting, and synthesizing insights into product decisions.

• Experience in designing agentic or AI-driven product surfaces.

• Background in design systems where you established the patterns rather than merely applying them.

• Proficiency in prototyping with AI tools, such as creating functional prototypes in Claude or Cursor for engineers to utilize.

• Familiarity with compliance, data integrity, or workflow-intensive domains.

• Experience in startups where processes are streamlined and you contributed your own organizational structure.

• History of mentoring or coaching fellow designers.

• Knowledge of the nonprofit or social impact sector.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance coverage for employees (50% for dependents).

• Generous paid time off, including parental leave.

• 401(k) plan.

• Company-provided laptop and home-office stipend.

• Bi-annual company retreats.

• Opportunities for professional growth.