productboard
Growth Designer
productboard, San Francisco, CA, United States
At Productboard, we fundamentally believe that the world's best products are created by product makers who possess an exceptionally deep understanding of their customers' needs. Whether they are Product Managers, Designers, or Engineers, the brightest minds behind the most successful and beloved products are those who truly embody their customers.
That is why we have centered the functionality of our Product Management Platform around understanding customers, competitors, feedback, and user research. We've built a unique set of capabilities designed to distill critical customer insights to inform key product decisions.
About the role
As a Growth Product Designer, you will design data-driven solutions that enhance user experience and drive product adoption. Working closely with growth, marketing, and product teams, you will focus on optimizing our key user journeys, improving onboarding experiences, and running experiments that help our users continue to unlock value. This is a unique opportunity to have a huge impact on the future of a fast-scaling SaaS product.
This role is based in our San Francisco office, where you will work closely with your product management and engineering colleagues on-site 3 days a week (Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays) to ensure the close alignment necessary for the highly innovative nature of your work. You will also collaborate with several other globally located product teams and have the opportunity to travel to Prague and other European destinations.
What You'll Do:
- Product-Led Growth: Design engaging and intuitive user experiences that directly support growth metrics such as activation, conversion, and retention.
- End-to-end design: Own the design process from concept through execution, including user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and prototypes.
- Collaborate on cross-functional projects: Work closely with various product, marketing, and engineering teams to align design solutions with growth goals and ensure seamless user experiences.
- Conduct testing and user research: Design and execute experiments to test hypotheses and optimize features like onboarding flows, in-product messaging, and growth loops.
- Analyze and iterate: Use qualitative and quantitative data to continuously improve designs and iterate on features to maximize user engagement and drive product success.
- Contribute to our design system: Help scale and refine our design system to ensure consistency and efficiency as our product and user base grow.
- Uncover and cultivate a deep understanding of the customer-centric requirements essential for modern product managers and their stakeholders.
- Proactively discover product value opportunities, build justifications, and bring clarity into understanding underlying customer problems.
- Co-define and support initiatives and programs where your expertise and experience is needed to define and guide the work.
- Push the quality of craft execution and design practices to high standards.
- Join critiques and product discussions to inform or make decisions, and embrace pair-designing for ideation and collaboration with others.
- Represent critical parts of the design work upwards and across the company in collaboration with design leaders.
- Enhance and develop innovative patterns and systems that can stand the pressure of enterprise customers, are durable, and set the new standard for the product.
- Exhibit exceptional communication skills by effectively translating complex concepts into actionable implications for the business and our customers.
- Drive product-led growth by creating designs that encourage user engagement, satisfaction, and adoption.
- 3+ years of experience as an individual contributor in a growth design role, preferably in Enterprise B2B SaaS.
- Exceptional interaction and product design skills, with emphasis on interaction design. Ability and empathy to conduct user research, develop user personas, and data analysis. Experience with the latest design patterns, processes, and tooling (Figma).
- Portfolio of product experiences that were shipped and convey the impact on the business and customers.
- Experience in working on complex collaborative products that are architected as modular and extensible platforms or at least have some aspects of a modern platform approach.
- A track record of delivering products with cross-functional teams to enterprise customers. Appreciation and understanding of the complex needs of large enterprise organizations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex findings clearly to diverse audiences, including senior executives.
- Proactive, curious, and independent, with a passion for solving broader problems, advancing your craft, and driving company-wide impact.
- Demonstrated success in driving product-led growth through strategic design initiatives.
- Be part of building the world's first and best Product Platform that fundamentally changes how our industry approaches the craft of Product Management.
- Your customers are some of the best product teams and minds out there. You will have the opportunity to learn from and advance the work of the best of the best in your field.
- Be a part of a growing and innovative, mission-driven company, with the opportunity to shape the future of our product and customer experience, and to define an entire new market category.
- Collaborate with a talented and passionate team, dedicated to making products that matter, together.
- Collaborate closely with world-class leaders and individual contributors, each an expert in their field, providing you with a unique opportunity to learn, grow, and make a meaningful impact as you advance in your career.
At Productboard, we believe in providing you with a comprehensive compensation and benefits package that reflects our commitment to your well-being and professional growth. Here's what you can expect:
- Competitive base salary reflecting your role's value.
- Stock options for company success.
- Robust 401k for long-term financial health.
- Life insurance and disability coverage.
- Best-in-class health benefits with contributions, including a convenient One Medical Membership for quality healthcare.
- Subsidized gym and wellness memberships.
- Commuter benefits for convenience.
- Dedicated mental wellness programs and personal access to Soulmio for mindfulness.
- Generous paid time off: Flexible PTO + 9 sick days.
- 8 weeks of Paternity leave and 12 weeks of Maternity leave.
- Annual volunteer day for your chosen causes.
- Daily office lunches catering to your preferences.
- Professional development budget for growth.
- Regular team events to foster camaraderie.
About Productboard
Productboard exists to help the best product minds out there make products that matter, together. We believe we all deserve to live in a world filled with extraordinary products - products that exceed our expectations in both functionality and delight.
That is why we made our purpose-built and customer-centric product management platform that helps organizations get the right products to market, faster. More than 6,000 companies, including Microsoft, Zoom, Salesforce, and Cartier, use Productboard to understand what users need, prioritize what to build next, and rally everyone around their roadmap.
With offices in San Francisco, Prague, Vancouver, London, Dublin, and Brno, Productboard is backed by leading investors like Tiger Global Management, Dragoneer Investment Group, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Credo Ventures.
We are very well funded and financially stable Series D company, with a validated product market fit and a massive future market opportunity.
- Join at the golden startup age - established stability with large space for innovation and individual impact
- You'll enjoy an exciting team atmosphere, building a whole new category of software
- You can help change the way that products are built all over the world
- We iterate quickly and decisions are fast. You'll have a voice in what we do and see the impact of your work
- We are backed by top Silicon Valley investors, giving us access to capital, networks, mentors, and new markets
- We are recognized as a leading tech startup in our category, named by Forbes magazine and Business Insider as one of the best startup employers to bet your career on, and are regularly recognized for our company culture
Imagine working in a place where everything matters - most importantly, you. At Productboard, values aren't just something we like to talk about, they're something we live and breathe. We believe in creating a work environment where:
- People feel empowered, supported, and included
- Trust and transparency are built into the way we work
- Creativity, curiosity, and continuous improvement are encouraged and nurtured every day
Forming our company values was a group effort, with every employee allowed to contribute. From profit-sharing initiatives, like stock options, to open communication, we don't waste time on politics or ego. We champion openness by sharing our goals, success, and failures.
Join colleagues who love what they do and who are invested in their work environment and the future of the company. Help shape our company, culture, and product!
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer and champion equity. It is our aim to help people from all backgrounds, cultures, and groups realize their full potential at Productboard. We do not tolerate any discrimination or harassment based upon gender identity, race, color, religion, age, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other bias covered by appropriate law. All aspects of employment, including hiring, training, promotion, and terminations, are based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are committed to an inclusive hiring process and provide all candidates with equal opportunity to demonstrate their abilities. Togetherness is one of our core values, and our Diversity Council helps to ensure that we uphold the values of authenticity, humanity, and diversity to create an environment where every person matters. We are committed to leading by example to drive societal change.