Senior Product Designer

What You'll Do:

• Own design projects end to end (concept, scoping, user flows, UI, release, and follow-up), at any scale, from small improvements to strategic new capabilities.

• Drive discovery: define what to build to address real problems and user needs, and study competitors and best practices.

• Work closely with Research, Product Management, and Development: request and apply insights, align on business requirements, and validate technical feasibility.

• Write clear specifications so design intent is unambiguous, and run design QA against both the intent and the Kinsta Design System.

• Give clear rationale for your decisions, resolve design and product deadlocks, escalate when you need feedback or mediation, and communicate trade-offs when priorities compete.

• Serve as Project Owner on occasion. We don't have full-time delivery managers, so one team member leads each project as its Owner during delivery, communicating progress and coordinating releases.

• Be a product expert: know how our product works, the personas and use cases we support, and how that translates into UI-level design solutions.

• Represent the craft: uphold professional standards in design thinking, problem solving, usability, UX, and UI; give and receive design critique; and help maintain and evolve the Kinsta Design System.

What You Bring To The Role:

• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience as a Product or UX Designer.

• Demonstrated experience shipping products and features from zero to production, with the ability to carry a project fully autonomously.

• Experience working in a SaaS product environment.

• Hands-on experience across the full design workflow: research, problem definition, ideation and facilitation, creating UI, and partnering in delivery.

• Expert-level proficiency with Figma.

• Experience working with and maintaining a design system.

• A portfolio with at least one case study taking a project from a problem statement to a delivered solution. We want to see your process and how you arrived at decisions, not only screens and a general workflow description.

• A good understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JS). You don't need to write production code, but you should have a working sense of feasibility and be comfortable poking at things in an Inspector.

• Proactivity: you take the initiative rather than waiting to be told what to do.

• Professional-level English with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Bonus if you have:

• Experience working on a hosting or web infrastructure product.

• Experience with technical products where the audience is developers or technology-oriented users.

• Experience with the WordPress ecosystem.

Benefits:

• Annual remote expense budget.

• Flexible PTO.

• Paid parental leave.

• Annual professional development budget: available after one year with Kinsta.

• Sabbatical: available after three years with Kinsta (and every three years thereafter).

• Location-specific healthcare benefits (includes vision and dental) for employees hired in the USA, UK, Canada, and Hungary.

• Pension plan for employees hired in the UK, and 401k contributions for employees hired in the USA.