Sr/Staff, Product Designer

Mastery of the craft: 7+ years of product design experience, with a significant portion spent leading design for complex, technical B2B or developer-facing products

Proven staff-level impact: A portfolio demonstrating that you have led "zero-to-one" initiatives and scaled design systems that influenced the entire product's trajectory

Exceptional communication: The ability to command a room, tell a compelling story around design decisions, and disagree/commit effectively with executive leadership

Technical fluency: Deep understanding of how your designs are implemented; you speak the language of engineers and understand the constraints of APIs and data structures

Systems thinking: You don't just design pages; you design logic, states, and interconnected systems that work at scale

High-energy ownership: Experience thriving in high-growth, in-office environments where you are expected to be a self-starter who defines their own work

The cash compensation range for this role is $185,000 - $217,000.

Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications. In addition to cash compensation, all employees receive an equity compensation package.

Unlimited PTO + 10 company holidays

100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance

401K Plan

Drive strategy: Partner with founders and leadership across the whole company to translate business strategy into a tangible product roadmap through high-fidelity prototyping and vision work

Own the system: Architect and evolve our design system to ensure it doesn't just provide components, but enforces a philosophy of speed, consistency, and "Merge-level" polish

Solve the hardest problems: Take ownership of the most complex, multi-sided technical workflows in our platform, simplifying them into intuitive experiences for developers

Evangelize design excellence: Relentlessly "sweat the pixels" and hold cross-functional peers accountable to a standard of excellence that distinguishes Merge from the competition

Direct research & validation: Lead deep-dive customer research and usability testing to uncover friction points and validate core product hypotheses

Mentor and multiply: Raise the bar for the entire design team through rigorous design reviews, mentorship, and by defining "what good looks like" at Merge