Senior Product Designer, LaunchDarkly
User Experience
$145-235k
Salary varies depending on location. Offers RSUs
Feature management for software teams
Open for applications
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$145-235k
Salary varies depending on location. Offers RSUs
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- You can take ownership of a large, legacy-rich domain and modernize it without breaking trust
- You enjoy getting deep into complex states, edge cases, and what’s actually happening under the hood
- You thrive in early-stage exploration: AI-native workflows, contextual developer tools, predictive flag behavior, agentic interactions. 
- You think in frameworks: you’d rather fix a pattern than patch a screen
- You’re comfortable influencing roadmap direction and building consensus in ambiguous spaces
- You care about developer experience and how UX patterns scale across teams, languages, and workflows
- 6–8 years of experience designing complex products, ideally developer tools, technical platforms, or configuration-heavy SaaS systems
- Expertise in interaction design, information architecture, and system modeling; you identify patterns beneath the UI
- Strength translating highly technical concepts (rules, contexts, targeting logic, multi-environment behavior) into clear, usable experiences
- Ability to lead end-to-end design: discovery → concept → prototype → validation → implementation → monitoring value
- Comfort working directly with APIs, SDK concepts, developer workflows, or similar technical constraints
- Experience designing for multi-surface journeys (web app, browser extensions, IDE extensions, agent-driven workflows)
- Strong communication and storytelling skills to collaborate and align with PM, Engineering, Docs, Research, GTM, and leadership
- A portfolio demonstrating systemic thinking, clear rationale, and measurable impact
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead design across both teams. This role is the primary UX partner for two major product pillars:
- FM Foundations—the core workflows that define how flags are created, organized, targeted, and governed
- FM Next—the future of feature management: AI-powered flag hygiene, the next-generation Developer Toolbar, and contextual in-IDE workflows that reduce friction and eliminate context switching
- You’ll be the design lead embedded in a triad with PM and Engineering. Expect wide scope, complex systems, and high impact: this is the original LaunchDarkly product, and the work you do shapes how tens of thousands of developers ship software safely and confidently
- Lead design for the core feature management experience, including flag creation, targeting, cleanup, and cross-environment workflows
- Lead discovery, research, and strategy for new investments across Foundations and Next, including predictive targeting, toolbar inspector modes, and AI-native workflows
- Map and simplify complex developer workflows, transforming configuration-heavy experiences into intuitive, reliable, and scalable UX patterns
- Design systems, not just screens: information architecture, navigation, patterns, and cross-surface consistency across the platform
- Create high-quality design artifacts (flows, prototypes, specs), ensuring engineering clarity and tight iteration loops
- Partner closely with engineering to understand technical constraints, data models, integration patterns, and SDK behavior; influence implementation early
- Establish frameworks and reusable patterns to streamline future work across teams as new capabilities integrate into developer tools, agents, and AI-powered interactions
- Advocate for developers by grounding decisions in research, testing, telemetry, and qualitative feedback from real workflows
- Contribute to the design system, evolving components and interaction patterns that support highly configurable, state-heavy experiences
- Operate as a design leader within the triad, facilitating alignment, unblocking ambiguity, and driving clarity around direction and trade-offs
- Mentor peers, strengthen critique culture, and help raise the overall quality bar for craft
Our take
Feature flags are a powerful software development tool, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code, therefore minimizing risk. If a business has a new feature they want to test, they can then roll it out to a small set of users before letting it go live. These companies can, for example, get quick feedback on the new feature and fix any bugs, or roll back any changes.
LaunchDarkly allows companies to run tests like this by activating the new code for only a small set of users prior to launch. Typically running these tests requires lots of developer time - a daunting and expensive prospect for most rapidly growing businesses - and can risk disruption to the user experience if testing takes place on the live product.
Demonstrating its value to businesses, the platform is used by the likes of IBM, Intuit and Atlassian. Recently it has seemed to focus on further scaling its growth as it develops towards being a leading business in the feature management space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Jan 2020
$54m
LATE VC
Total funding: $330.3m
Company benefits
- Full Vision
- Full Dental
- Full Medical
- Flexible Schedule
- Healthy Lunches & Snacks
- Conference & Meetup Access
- Education Stipend
- Personalized Work Station
- Close to Public Transportation
- Bike Parking
- Team Activities
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Lakeside, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Edith Harbaugh
(Co-founder, Executive Chair & CEO)Worked as a Product Manager at Vignette, Monster Worldwide, and PlantSense. Previously Product Director at TripIt.
John Kodumal
(Co-founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding LaunchDarkly was Software Development Manager at Atlassian and Bytecode Anaylsis Architect for Coverity.
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