Staff Product Designer, Graphite
$200-240k
+ Equity
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Code review platform
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Code review platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-240k
+ Equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create products and workflows that help fast-moving teams achieve more.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience designing digital products
- Full stack design skills (UX, design systems, UI, prototyping)
- Very strong sense for visual design for UI (eg. layouts, components, design systems, polish, etc)
- Ability to translate ambiguous user needs to concrete requirements and turn them into comprehensive design specs
- Proven product design experience with concrete examples of iterative approaches to complex problems
- Experience creating scalable and responsive patterns
- Experience creating or maintaining design systems
- Mastery of contemporary design and prototyping tools and best practices
- Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills
Desirable
- Experience designing for SaaS, enterprise, devtools, or productivity tools
- Self-sufficient & ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment
- Experience with zero-to-one projects or experience as a founding designer
- Interest in or experience working on developer tools and workflows
- A good understanding of web front-end (i.e. HTML/CSS, React)
- User experience research experience (eg. user interviews, user testing, etc)
- Branding, art direction, graphic design, marketing design, or motion design experience
What the job involves
- Graphite is growing rapidly, we're looking for a staff product designer to help us define and execute on our product vision, bring innovative and impactful features to our users, and evolve our design system
- Rethinking the way fast-moving software engineering teams write and review code every day is no small feat, and we believe that the best solutions are built when most talented, ambitious, and dedicated people with diverse backgrounds come together
- We're a fast-paced product and design driven company with an extremely talented and insightful engineering team
- Collaborate with product managers to define the the strategic product vision
- Help build out and evolve the design philosophies, processes, and culture at Graphite
- Explore innovative UX and UI patterns
- Solve complex technical challenges with creative problem solving
- Execute on 0-1 feature releases and large product updates
- Help identify new business and product opportunities through a strong understanding of our capabilities, user needs, and the competitive landscape
Our take
Graphite is making advanced code review and developer tools accessible to a wider range of engineers, breaking down the barriers that typically limit such resources to teams at large companies. While industry giants like Facebook and Google use tools like Phabricator and Critique, Graphite offers open-source solutions with a command-line interface and dashboard, empowering developers of all sizes to streamline their code review processes.
What sets Graphite apart is its ability to dramatically enhance engineering team efficiency with innovative features. Unlike traditional linear code review processes - where code is committed and then reviewed - Graphite allows for concurrent reviews. This enables engineers to continue working on other tasks while their code is being reviewed, leading to a much more productive workflow.
As the company continues to roll out regular performance improvements and refine its features, it has continued to expand its user base. With strong support and a growing community of users, Graphite has gained traction across even the most traditional engineering teams, and in late 2025 was acquired by AI coding assistant Cursor.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2025
$52m
SERIES B
May 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $74.3m
Company benefits
- Great equipment: New laptop, monitor, and stipend for desk accessories
- 401(k) Plan: Helping you save for the future
- Equity: Employee-friendly equity terms
- Health benefits: Top-tier health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid meals: Company-paid lunch, dinner, and coffee during workdays
- Commuter benefits: Covering your commute costs
- Paid time off: Four weeks of paid time off
- Family leave; Sixteen weeks of parental leave
- Quarterly hack weeks: Take time to develop what you feel most passionately about
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Merrill Lutsky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously product at Square, Oscar, and various NYC-based startups. B.A. from Harvard.
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