Staff Product Designer

$192,000 - $215,000/Yr

Contentful - Denver, CO

Full-time - Mid Level

Denver, CO

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Staff Product Designer will play a crucial role in shaping the user experience for Contentful's new product, Studio, which enables digital teams to create visual experiences at scale. This position involves collaboration with cross-functional teams, including product and engineering managers, to drive UX from discovery through delivery. The role is hybrid, requiring in-person collaboration in downtown Denver at least once a week, and offers an opportunity to contribute to a young and dynamic product development team.

Responsibilities

• Translate strategy into a structured design process and assist in requirements definition.
• Lead design projects by crafting and delivering best-in-class UX, UI, and interaction design documentation.
• Partner with product managers and engineering leads to identify and define impactful problems based on user-centered research and analysis.
• Collaborate with design system designers to enhance Studio's use of Contentful's open-source design system.
• Ensure quality of output through proactive involvement.
• Build iteratively and experiment to grow a new product.
• Conduct primary research, including in-depth interviews and usability testing, to understand customer needs and challenges.
• Create design archetypes such as customer journeys, system maps, user flows, prototypes, and UX copy.
• Facilitate team discovery workshops and align the team on opportunities.
• Participate in critiques and provide mentorship to other designers.

Requirements

• 6-8 years of relevant experience in product design.
• Excellence in UI and visual product design skills.
• Strategic UX thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Self-starter, organized, and driven.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguities and making bold decisions.
• Experience working in a global company with US and EU offices.
• Proven ability to create alignment on cross-team product challenges.
• Strong conceptual skills for designing complex scenarios.
• Excellent communication skills and confidence in engaging with company leadership.
• Proficiency in meeting and workshop facilitation.
• Experience with design systems and knowledge of interaction patterns.
• Experience in running user research and testing activities.
• Experience in growing products from 0 to 1 is a plus.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in working with design systems.
• Experience in running user research and testing activities.
• Experience growing 0 to 1 products.

Benefits

• Stock Options for employees to share in the company's success.
• Comprehensive healthcare package covering 100% of monthly health premiums for employees and 85% for dependents.
• Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet.
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick, compassion, education, and volunteer days.
• Company paid parental leave.
• Personal annual education budget for skill improvement.
• Full range of virtual and in-person events for learning and networking.
• Annual wellbeing stipend for physical, financial, or emotional health.
• Monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
• New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees.