Hybrid Staff Product Designer

at CaptivateIQ

• Job title: Staff Product Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $168,920 - $245,140 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Menlo Park, United States

About the role

• Staff Product Designer designing complex workflows for incentive compensation management at CaptivateIQ. Collaborating with teams to create enterprise-grade solutions for clients.

Responsibilities

• Own large, ambiguous design problems from discovery through delivery and iteration
• Design complex, data-heavy workflows for configuring, testing, and managing incentive compensation plans
• Partner closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and other cross-functional partners to frame problems, explore solutions, and ship high-quality experiences
• Balance usability with flexibility, designing for enterprise scale while ensuring advanced functionality remains approachable and scalable
• Design and evolve foundational systems and reusable patterns that improve consistency and long-term product quality
• Champion systems thinking, ensuring solutions integrate cleanly across the broader platform
• Act as a force multiplier across Design, Product, and Engineering by bringing clarity, strong judgment, and mentorship through example
• Raise the bar for UX, UI, and interaction design across enterprise-facing product surfaces
• Lead through influence and execution, not people management

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing SaaS products, ideally B2B, enterprise, or admin-facing tools
• Strong fundamentals in UX, UI, and interaction design (table stakes for this role)
• Experience designing data-heavy, workflow-driven systems
• Strong product sense, with the ability to understand customer, technical, and business tradeoffs
• An ownership mindset, with a track record of independently driving work end to end
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, complex problem spaces where clarity emerges through collaboration
• Ability to connect design decisions to business outcomes and long-term product strategy
• Clear, effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to articulate direction, rationale, and tradeoffs with cross-functional partners and leadership

Benefits

• (US-ONLY) 100% of medical, dental, and vision covered including 75% for dependents
• Flexible vacation days and quarterly mental health days so you can recharge
• Enjoy a one-time expense on your 1-year work anniversary (to use for travel, home furnishings, fancy meal)
• Annual stipends for professional development and caretaking
• (US-ONLY) 401k plan to participate in and save towards the future
• Newest Apple products to help you do your best work
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support and celebrate the shared identities and life experiences of communities within CaptivateIQ. ERGs directly support our company-wide DEI goals as a space for developing and retaining diverse talent