Staff Product Designer

Skills

About the Role

Own the end-to-end developer experience across Walrus product surfaces and workflows. Lead discovery, investigate developer workflows, conduct interviews and usability tests, prototype solutions, and design complex technical workflows involving dense data, system state, configuration, resource management, and high-consequence actions. Influence product direction, build reusable design systems and interaction patterns, benchmark comparable products, stay involved through implementation and design QA, and establish standards for excellent developer-product design.

Requirements

• 8-10 years of product design experience with demonstrated ownership of complex technical products.
• A portfolio demonstrating ownership of shipped developer tools, cloud or infrastructure products, consoles, dashboards, or similarly complex technical products.
• Ability to simplify technically sophisticated workflows without removing necessary control or information.
• Strong interaction-design skills across data-heavy interfaces, tables, configuration, complex states, progressive disclosure, permissions, errors, and high-consequence actions.
• Experience independently identifying and framing product problems rather than primarily executing predefined requirements.
• A track record of influencing product strategy and roadmap decisions through design.
• Strong qualitative research instincts and experience incorporating lightweight user research and usability testing into product work.
• Experience creating or significantly evolving design systems and reusable interaction patterns.
• Strong partnership with engineering and willingness to remain involved through implementation and design QA.
• Excellent communication skills and confidence disagreeing constructively with senior product and engineering partners.
• Comfort operating with significant autonomy in an ambiguous, rapidly evolving technical environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the Walrus product experience across product surfaces and key workflows.
• Lead discovery with product and engineering to frame problems, identify unanswered questions, and determine necessary evidence.
• Conduct developer interviews and usability tests, put prototypes in front of users, and synthesize findings into actionable decisions.
• Design flows, wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready experiences for complex technical workflows.
• Influence product direction and constructively challenge product and engineering assumptions.
• Build and maintain shared components, interaction patterns, and product principles.
• Benchmark comparable developer and infrastructure products to identify established patterns and opportunities.
• Partner with engineering throughout development, review shipped work against the intended experience, and incorporate partner requirements and feedback.
• Establish standards for excellent developer-product design and practices that maintain those standards.