# Staff Product Designer & Researcher

**Company**: Netlify
**Location**: Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $196,000 - $232,000 USD for most US-based locations or $197,000 - $232,000 CAD for most Canada-based locations
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/netlify/jobs/8643850002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Our growing User Experience team is looking for a Staff Product Designer & Researcher generalist to help evolve the developer experience on Netlify.

As a critical member of our UX Team, you’ll keep our users at the center of your process and balance near- and long-term initiatives that drive us toward building a better web.

**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.

**Nice to Have**

- Iconography, branding, front-end engineering, or content design experience.

**What We Offer**

- Competitive salary: $196,000 - $232,000 USD for most US-based locations or $197,000 - $232,000 CAD for most Canada-based locations.

- Robust benefits and participation in Netlify’s equity plan.

## Skills

### Required
- Figma
- GitHub
- HTML
- CSS
- UX design
- research operations
- usability testing

### Nice to have
- iconography
- branding
- front-end engineering
- content design

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