Senior Product Designer II Job at Articulate

Job Description

As a Sr Product Designer II, you are a strategic, cross-functional leader and usability owner within your product’s tripod. You bring product thinking, sharp design craft, and deep user empathy to your work, helping your team move from discovery to outcomes. You co-lead with your tripod product discovery, shape direction in ambiguous spaces, and ensure we ship learning-focused, trustworthy experiences from early access through general availability. You are a key voice in your team’s design decisions and a multiplier across the design org. You coach peers, model strong collaboration habits, and contribute to our shared culture of excellence, feedback, and integrity.

Job Responsibility

Act as the design lead within your tripod, partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering to guide product discovery, usability standards, and customer learning
Take ownership of large, ambiguous problems, and confidently contribute hypotheses and solutions across multiple surfaces to drive clarity and cohesion
Effectively influence direction through design storytelling, research synthesis, and clear product thinking
Anticipate edge cases and usability risks early
drive evidence-led iteration across EA, beta, and GA
Uplevel those around you through mentorship, feedback, and active contributions to team rituals and process improvement
Raise the bar for usability within a product area, contributing new patterns to our design system to empower team-wide efficiency at scale
Lead usability across your tripod by framing problems, surfacing assumptions, and co-creating solutions informed by data and user insights
Set and uphold the usability bar from early access to GA, ensuring iterative work feels usable, intuitive, valuable, and closely connected to our business strategy
Optimize for speed to value while clearly articulating smart quality tradeoffs and building highly usable experiences through a longer journey of experimentation
Apply deep product knowledge and business context to make strategic design decisions that prioritize user success
Participate in customer discovery sessions and serve as the expert on customer needs within an area
Model practices of testing and experimentation that enable fast learning and continuous value delivery into the hands of customers
Deliver detailed design specs with full states and interactions, leveraging and contributing to the design system
Turn complexity into simplicity by designing intuitive flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes
Track design decisions and rationale
share proactively to build shared understanding across teams
Identify, test, and scale new methods, tools, or workflows to improve design and development efficiency across products and teams
Lead Design QA in collaboration with Eng and QA partners, ensuring usability, consistency, and polish are upheld before launch
Serve as a trusted partner in your product tripod, owning usability and helping shape roadmap priorities, scope decisions, and product bets
Own the prioritization and scoping of design initiatives that span multiple projects, ensuring alignment and creating visibility where design work is happening
Facilitate alignment across disciplines by making problems visible to peers and leadership, decisions clear, and evidence central to the conversation
Support a culture of inclusive feedback by seeking input from peers and partners early and throughout the process while owning the ultimate usability outcome
Model high standards of craft, collaboration, and accountability
Mentor mid-level designers, offering guidance on design systems, critique, and career growth
Share product thinking and usability expertise across the broader org, supporting cross-functional growth
Proactively contribute to team rituals for your tripod (crits, QAs, planning) and provide support to your design team peers for a net positive impact
Be a culture carrier, championing inclusivity, curiosity, and feedback in your day-to-day work

Requirements

8–10 years of product design experience, including ownership of end-to-end solutions in modern SaaS environments
A strong portfolio demonstrating design leadership across complex, multi-state flows or systems
High level of expertise in Figma and a solid understanding of responsive design and design systems
Fluency in user-centered design principles, usability heuristics, and rapid prototyping techniques
Experience working in empowered product teams (tripods or trios) and driving outcomes through collaboration
Excellent storytelling and communication skills, bringing others along in your thinking
Self-directed, resilient, and proactive, you seek clarity, raise the bar, and unblock others
Highly accountable and strong prioritization skills
Proven track record of influencing organizational design strategies beyond direct product scope

Nice to have

Experience with hypothesis-driven product development
Familiarity with user research tools (e.g., Maze, UserTesting, or analytics platforms)
Track record of mentoring or leveling up peers