Staff Product Designer, APM

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to join the APM (Application Performance Monitoring) team. This team is focused on helping engineers agentically troubleshoot and optimize their applications.

What it asks for · 11

• You have 10+ years of experience in digital product design.
• Your portfolio demonstrates a strong track record of designing and shipping complex technical products.
• You use AI-assisted workflows to prototype and rapidly iterate.
• You have a track record of connecting design decisions to measurable business outcomes --not just shipping features, but showing how your work moved the business forward.
• You have shipped code and are interested in evolving how design teams incorporate AI tools into their workflows.
• You are comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and influencing product direction through strong systems thinking and product judgment.
• You have a track record of telling compelling stories that build alignment, influence stakeholders, and articulate a clear product and design vision.
• You are deeply thoughtful about edge cases, scalability, information architecture, and designing for technical depth without sacrificing usability.
• You proactively lead initiatives from concept to execution, balancing priorities and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
• You have experience designing for developer platforms, observability tools, infrastructure products, or other highly technical domains.
• You give and receive feedback well, and proactively mentor other designers to elevate the quality of the broader team.

What the job covers

• Become a design leader within APM by proactively identifying opportunities and shaping the design strategy across multiple product areas and workflows.
• Partner closely with PMs and Engineers to ship intuitive experiences, balancing user needs with platform scalability and engineering constraints.
• Conduct and synthesize qualitative and quantitative research to identify pain points, validate solutions, and guide roadmap decisions.
• Communicate design rationale clearly and persuasively across design, engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.
• Mentor and support other designers by providing feedback, sharing frameworks and workflows, and helping raise the overall design quality bar across the organization.
• Prototype in code to rapidly explore ideas and validate concepts.
• Contribute to production code using AI-assisted workflows to ensure execution matches design intent.
• Help the team adopt AI-enabled design workflows.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• design12×
• product10×
• workflows6×
• designers4×
• proactively4×
• stakeholder4×
• build3×
• code3×
• decisions3×
• designing3×
• experience3×
• quality3×
• technical3×
• track record3×
• ai-assisted workflows2×
• apm2×

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