Hybrid Lead Product Designer, Slack Platform

at Salesforce

• Job title: Lead Product Designer, Slack Platform
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $167,300 - $253,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Lead Product Designer crafting the future of Slack's Platform and influencing product direction with design leadership. Collaborating cross-functionally to ensure design quality and user experience.

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with product and engineering partners to represent the design team, facilitate design discussions, and ensure design quality
• Collaborate closely with leadership to define features and influence the overall direction of your product area, and with Design Leadership to improve our design processes
• Design flows, prototypes, sketches, and high-fidelity UI for experiments and features
• Work closely with engineering to ensure a high-quality implementation and user experience throughout every phase of a project, and iterate quickly based on feedback
• Lead by example with hands-on design work and by helping teammates grow their skills
• Provide clear, constructive feedback and build a healthy design critique culture
• Identify connections across initiatives and ensure we are delivering a cohesive end-to-end user experience
• Mentor other designers, support hiring, and help evolve our design team practices

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in an individual contributor role on a Product Design team for desktop or mobile, delivering products from start to finish as part of a cross-functional team
• A portfolio that demonstrates strong interaction design, visual design, and systems thinking, especially across complex or extensible products
• Experience designing for platforms, developer tools, or integration ecosystems with a focus on flexibility and extensibility
• A strong understanding of developer workflows and the ability to design for technical users
• Familiarity with APIs, events, and webhooks, and how users build and connect systems using them
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, iterative environment and to balance speed with craft
• Experience working across disciplines, including product, engineering, research, marketing, and developer relations
• Fluency with prototyping as a tool to explore and communicate design ideas
• Strong self-direction and the ability to contribute independently and collaboratively
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align teams and earn trust across stakeholders.

Benefits

• time off programs
• medical
• dental
• vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• employee stock purchasing program