Sr/Staff, Product Designer

Design excellence is central at Merge—it shapes how developers adopt us, how customers evaluate us, and how we execute at speed. We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to serve as the design authority for our platform. This role will be the most senior individual designer at Merge, responsible for navigating our most ambiguous challenges and ensuring our craft remains world-class as we scale.

In this role, you will:

• Set the North Star: Define the long-term design vision for Merge’s core platform, ensuring individual features roll up into a cohesive, elite user experience
• Navigate ambiguity: Take high-level business goals and "fuzzy" problems and turn them into concrete, elegant designs and frameworks that uplevel our products and delight our customers
• Be a cultural force: Act as a highly opinionated advocate for the user, pushing the entire organization to uphold an exceptionally high bar for polish and simplicity
• Operate with high agency: Identify gaps in our product or process before they become issues and drive the solutions to completion without needing a roadmap handed to you
• Scale the craft: Move beyond individual screens to build the systems, standards, and mentoring rituals that level up the whole team

This is a role for a designer who wants to leave fingerprints on a fast-growing product and scale design practice inside a company that holds the bar high.

• →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

• 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

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