
Staff Product Designer
Overview
Customer.io powers automated communication that people actually want to receive. We help teams send smarter, more relevant messages using real-time behavioral data.
Job Description
Hi, my name is Ben V, Product Design Manager at Customer.io, and I'm looking for a Staff Product Designer to bring Design Craft, conviction, and AI-forward thinking to our product experience. This is a role that helped shape our design language, and we're looking for someone who can not only hold that bar but raise it. We're transforming our product toward an AI-era experience, and this role is central to that evolution.
Responsibilities
- - Own end-to-end design for key product areas, from discovery and definition through delivery and iteration
- - Set the Design Craft bar β lead critiques, challenge the team to do their best work, and advocate for quality at every stage
- - Steward our design system in a lean environment β help own the component library, enforce consistency, and evolve patterns as we scale
- - Bring AI-forward thinking to every product surface β identify AI opportunities, design for AI-native interactions, and push the team to think differently about what's possible
- - Collaborate with Product and Engineering on strategy, tradeoffs, and roadmap decisions β with the user experience always at the center
- - Help evolve our product from its established foundation toward a genuinely AI-era experience
Required Skills
- - 7+ years of product design experience with a portfolio that demonstrates clear Design Craft and conviction
- - Experience in B2B SaaS with complex, data-driven product interfaces
- - Ability to steward a design system without dedicated system manager support
- - Genuine AI enthusiasm and demonstrated curiosity about designing for AI-native experiences
- - Strong communication and critique skills. You can defend your decisions and give feedback that makes work better
- - Comfort making design calls in ambiguous situations with incomplete information
- - Close collaboration experience with Engineering and Product in a fast-moving environment
Benefits
- - 100% coverage of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and supplemental insurance premiums for you and your family
- - 16 weeks paid parental leave
- - Unlimited PTO
- - Stipends for remote work and wellness
- - A professional development budget
- - More benefits available
About the company
Fueled by first-party data, create personalized journeys across all channels with our customer engagement platform.
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