Staff Product Designer, CaptivateIQ
$168.9-245.1k
3+ days a week in office
Commission management platform
Open for applications
Commission management platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$168.9-245.1k
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring joy and transparency to sales performance management.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to help shape the future of our Incentive Compensation Management experiences
- This is a senior individual contributor role for a designer who thrives in complexity, owns large problem spaces end to end, and leads through influence, judgment, and craft
- As a Staff Designer, you’ll guide design across a significant product area, with scope that can extend beyond a single team into the broader ICM pillar
- You’ll help shape not just individual features, but the foundational systems, patterns, and decisions that influence the wider product experience as CaptivateIQ scales
- You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, CX, and other cross-functional partners to design enterprise-grade workflows that customers rely on to model, manage, and trust their compensation logic; ultimately helping teams stay motivated and confident in how they get paid
- 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
- Why This Role Matters?
- Incentive compensation is where complex business rules directly affect how people get paid and how companies build trust. As a Staff Product Designer, you’ll design the systems and workflows that turn that complexity into clarity for customers
- Your work will shape the foundations of the product, setting the quality bar for how CaptivateIQ scales enterprise-grade experiences. This is a role for a designer who wants real ownership, real impact, and the opportunity to make powerful systems feel intuitive, reliable, and desirable
Our take
CaptivateIQ is an incentive compensation platform using AI to automate commission workflows. Businesses spent an exorbitant amount each year managing commission processes, so the company's no-code SaaS is a welcome overhaul for the sector.
CaptivateIQ's platform improves both the efficiency and accuracy of existing legacy processes, serving any type of organization that utilizes a performance-based compensation plan. The founding team has real experience with the cumbersome process of managing commission payments, which is why they chose to target this particular problem.
CaptivateIQ has been smart in building a more generic product, allowing it to attract big-name clients from different sectors. This broad customer acquisition, atop regular funding injections, has helped CaptivateIQ reach Unicorn status. The company continues to add to its offering, for example with the launch of its AI-powered payee experience in 2025.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$100m
SERIES C
Apr 2021
$46m
SERIES B
Total funding: $159.2m
Company benefits
- 100% of medical, dental, and vision covered including 75% for dependents 🇺🇸
- Unlimited vacation days and quarterly mental health days so you can recharge 🇺🇸
- $1,000 to explore your dream destination on your work anniversary 🇺🇸
- $500 annual professional development stipend to continue growing and learning 🇺🇸
- $500 home office stipend to decorate your home office 🇺🇸
- $1,000 caretaker stipend to make sure our parent colleagues are being supported 🇺🇸
- Virtual team lunches to keep you connected 🇺🇸
- 401k plan to participate in and save towards the future 🇺🇸
- Newest hardware and tools for the job 🇺🇸
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support and celebrate the shared identities and life experiences of communities within CaptivateIQ 🇺🇸
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mark Schopmeyer
(Co-CEO & Co-founder)Former Investment Professional at Carrick Capital Partners and Finance and Strategy Manager at BrightRoll. Former Investment Banking Analyst at Jefferies & Company and Lehman Brothers. BA in Business Administration from Berkley School of Business.
Conway Teng
(Co-CEO & Co-founder)Former employee at Gusto in Finance and Business Operations. Previously Head of Growth at OrderAhead. Founder of FiveStars. Graduated from Berkley.
Hubert Wong
(Principal Engineer & Co-founder)Was CTO of the company for 6 years. Former Senior Software Engineer at Vungle, OpenTable and CoPilot Labs. BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berkley.
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