Staff Product Designer, LaunchDarkly
Feature Management and Enterprise
$141-229k
Salary range dependent on candidate location. Plus Restricted Stock Units
Feature management for software teams
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Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$141-229k
Salary range dependent on candidate location. Plus Restricted Stock Units
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a designer who thrives in systems thinking, enjoys simplifying complexity, and is excited about influencing the direction of a platform used by thousands of developers around the world
- 8+ years of experience as a product designer, ideally in technology-forward Enterprise SaaS software
- Proficiency with Figma and other modern design tools
- A portfolio of shipped work that demonstrates strong problem-solving skills, user-centered design processes, and impactful outcomes (ideally focused on both the Administrator and the Developer personas)
- While Product Designers at LaunchDarkly own work on the end-to-end design of product experiences, we don't expect you to be an expert in every skill a designer may possess. You should, however, be strong in two or three areas, and competent at the rest
- Lifelong learner, always looking to grow and improve at your craft
- Able to autonomously handle multiple, complex projects at once
- Excellent communicator, both written and verbally
- Great storyteller and presenter of design work
- Team-Oriented: You excel at collaborating across the company. You can move easily between business stakeholders, product management and development partners
- Great Communicator: You have a natural ability to build relationships with cross-functional team members and are a master of advocating for the best user experience
- A Believer: You understand that technology can simplify, delight and enhance our lives and hope to build transformative innovation through your career
- Startup Mentality: You thrive in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment where you balance multiple projects and can prioritize your work both short and long term
- Driven: You are motivated to achieve success both at work and in your personal life
- Commercially Aware: You understand how design ties to business objectives, understand target audience profiles and insights, and incorporate these into effective design solutions
What the job involves
- LaunchDarkly is looking for a seasoned product designer to join our team and take a leading role in shaping the future of LaunchDarkly’s Feature Management and Enterprise product areas
- As a key member of the team, you’ll be responsible for driving the end-to-end user experience strategy across some of our most foundational and high-impact areas
- Feature Management is the core of LaunchDarkly’s platform: it is how developers and teams control and iterate on feature rollouts in real time
- You'll work on complex workflows and interaction patterns that need to scale seamlessly for teams ranging from small startups to Fortune 500 enterprises
- At the same time, you’ll help elevate our Enterprise experience, focusing on capabilities like permissions, user management, integrations, and approvals
- These capabilities are critical for larger organizations with complex governance needs
- You'll ensure these advanced features are both powerful and usable, balancing security, scalability, and ease of adoption
- You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional peers across product, engineering, research, and data, as well as engage directly with customers to understand their challenges
- You’ll be expected to lead through ambiguity, align stakeholders around a shared design vision, and deliver work that’s both thoughtful and pragmatic
- Lead the design of end-to-end user experiences (from discovery through delivery and iteration), covering both feature management and enterprise expansion
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to define and shape product strategy with a clear design point of view
- Translate complex, technical problem spaces into intuitive, testable UX patterns
- Conduct and apply user research, usability testing, and data insights to inform design decisions and product strategy
- Deliver high-quality design artifacts (user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity visuals) that balance user needs with technical feasibility
- Work with engineering and product partners to ensure high-quality implementation and tight iteration loops
- Collaborate deeply with other designers (participating in design critiques and independent reviews) to maintain consistency across the LaunchDarkly platform and contribute to our design system
- Advocate for feature management and enterprise user needs in platform-wide discussions and initiatives. Be the trusted voice of the user: you have trong communication skills, with the ability to influence and inspire others
- Mentor other designers and help raise the bar for UX design craft and thinking
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.
The platform is used by more than 1,500 customers, including the likes of IBM, Intuit and Atlassian. Signalling a change in strategy, the company shook up its management in 2023 and is now aiming to scale its already strong growth under the leadership of Dan Rogers, a product and marketing specialist with an impressive track record at Rubrik, AWS and Microsoft. It is now well poised to develop into 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
(Executive Chair)Worked as a Product Manager at Vignette, Monster Worldwide, and PlantSense. Previously Product Director at TripIt.
John Kodumal
(CTO)Prior to co-founding LaunchDarkly was Software Development Manager at Atlassian and Bytecode Anaylsis Architect for Coverity.
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