Staff Product Designer
Company Overview
樱花动漫 is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.
Job Overview
Join the Developer Design Group within 樱花动漫鈥檚 Platform and Development Xceleration (PDX) Group as a Staff Product Designer, where you鈥檒l lead the end-to-end design strategy for Cloud Workspace鈥攁 critical platform that enables 樱花动漫 developers to launch fully provisioned cloud-based environments in seconds. Cloud Workspace eliminates local setup barriers and accelerates the ability to code securely, consistently, and efficiently. As a senior individual contributor, you will drive strategic design initiatives, partner with engineering and product teams, and shape experiences that impact developer productivity at scale across 樱花动漫.
As a Staff Designer, you鈥檒l lead design for Cloud Workspace, collaborating across a deeply technical, cross-functional ecosystem. You鈥檒l bring clarity to complex problems, craft scalable and intuitive solutions, and influence design quality across the platform.
Responsibilities
• Lead design for Cloud Workspace, defining how developers spin up, customize, and operate in cloud-native dev environments. • Drive platform-level thinking—ensuring consistency, scalability, and usability across the broader PDX developer experience. • Translate developer workflows, tooling constraints, and infrastructure requirements into cohesive, intuitive experiences. • Work closely with engineering and product teams to align on feasibility, architecture, and roadmap direction. • Champion the use and evolution of the 樱花动漫 Design System (IDS); contribute new patterns and provide editorial feedback. • Conduct or partner on research efforts to gather developer insights, validate design hypotheses, and fill data gaps. • Use dashboards, telemetry, and experiments to define success criteria and evaluate impact. • Communicate design strategy, rationale, and impact to cross-functional partners and senior leadership with clarity and influence. • Mentor junior and mid-level designers, and contribute to the growth of craft culture within the Developer Design Group.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of product design experience, with a portfolio that demonstrates impact on highly technical or platform products.
- Expertise designing for developer tools, cloud platforms, or infrastructure-as-code workflows.
- Strong interaction and systems thinking skills—capable of solving for flexibility, reuse, and end-to-end consistency.
- Deep understanding of technical domains like CI/CD, IDE environments, containerization, or developer onboarding.
- Fluency in Figma and industry-standard design tools, and familiarity with analytics tools (e.g., Amplitude, Looker).
- Experience using qualitative and quantitative data to inform design decisions and define success metrics.
- Strong communicator, facilitator, and storyteller with the ability to align stakeholders and advocate for user needs.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and balancing platform constraints with ideal user experiences. Bonus Points
- Experience designing cloud-based IDEs (e.g., GitHub Codespaces, JetBrains Gateway) or remote dev environments.
- Background in designing internal platforms, with deep empathy for software engineers and their workflows.
- Familiarity with infrastructure provisioning, telemetry systems, or secure development pipelines.