Product Design Lead, Glean
Core Product
$235-280k
More information about location
4+ days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)
Enterprise search and knowledge management
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Enterprise search and knowledge management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$235-280k
More information about location
4+ days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring people the knowledge they need to make a difference in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 10+ years in product design with significant time at leading technology companies known for exceptional design craft
- Portfolio: World-class visual, interaction, and motion design demonstrating search, discovery, or content consumption experiences at scale
- Technical fluency: Deep understanding of modern front-end technologies, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks — knowing what is possible and how to push boundaries while maintaining performance
- Craft obsession: Pixel-perfect attention to detail with advanced AI prototyping skills to create high-fidelity, interactive demonstrations
- Leadership & impact: Track record of shipping beloved consumer products with measurable impact on engagement and retention, with ability to mentor designers and elevate an entire team's craft
What the job involves
- Glean is seeking an exceptional design leader to own our Core Product experience — the foundational search, discovery, and knowledge exploration interfaces that our users interact with daily
- You'll lead the design of our search interface, results presentation, knowledge graph, and core navigation — creating experiences that feel magical, instant, and indispensable
- As Product Design Lead for Core Product, you'll bring systems thinking, world-class craft, and an obsessive attention to detail. You'll organize our system architecture and refine every interaction, making enterprise software that people love to use
- Lead core search & discovery design owning Glean's primary interfaces including search, results pages, content management, and navigation systems that delight users through exceptional craft
- Obsess over micro-interactions, designing animations, transitions, and responsive behaviors that make the product feel fluid and alive — bringing consumer-grade polish to enterprise software
- Create innovative search experiences beyond traditional query-response patterns, incorporating predictive suggestions, contextual recommendations, and ambient intelligence that surface insights before users even search
- Design beautiful result layouts that elegantly handle diverse content types while maintaining visual hierarchy and information density — making complex information scannable and actionable
- Establish world-class design systems with pristine components, consistent motion principles, and cohesive visual language that scales elegantly across the entire product
- Push technical boundaries incorporating advanced animations and innovative interaction patterns using modern web technologies to create breakthrough experiences
- Build adaptive interfaces that feel native across desktop, mobile, and browser extensions while maintaining continuity — ensuring every touchpoint feels intentional and polished
- Guide team excellence through craft, mentoring 3-4 senior designers to elevate quality standards, establishing benchmarks that rival the best consumer products, refusing to compromise even in edge cases
Our take
Glean is an intuitive digital assistant which allows employees to search across all their apps and find the information and tools that they need more quickly.
With so many SaaS apps being used by modern day companies, overwhelm and inefficiency inevitably enter the equation. Glean’s search engine is proving popular for how it unifies and centralizes all these distributed tools and data.
It’s been quite a start to life at Glean, having only emerged from stealth in 2021, it received a $1 Billion valuation in early 2022, thus achieving unicorn status, and has received nearly $400 million in funding so far. The SaaS platform is already used by some major companies including Grammarly, databricks, and Rubrik.
That Glean was co-founded by a quartet with senior experience at Google, Microsoft, Uber, and Facebook stands the company in good stead. However, it’s the fact that its search engine is solving a new, but very real problem in the workplace that’s seen its popularity surge so quickly, which it’s likely to continue to do in the future. Its adaptability to include new AI capabilities to its platform, such as generative AI, has Glean well set to see further growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2025
$150m
SERIES F
Sep 2024
$260m
SERIES E
Total funding: $805m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision for you and yours
- Competitive compensation and stock options
- 401k contribution
- Flexible work (3 days a week in the office), though we believe in folks working where they can be most effective
- Company events, from weekly happy hours to our annual company retreat
- Flexible hours, unlimited PTO, and company-wide winter break shutdown
- Transparent culture
- Learning and development stipend
- Free meals with lunch and dinner options every day
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Arvind Jain
(CEO)Former Engineer at Google and Microsoft. Is the co-founder of high growth startup Rubrik, which delivers data security and operational resilience for enterprises.
Piyush Prahladka
(Software Engineer)Prior to joining the co-founding team at Glean, they worked as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, then as an Engineering Lead at Uber.
Tony Gentilcore
(Product Engineering Lead)Former Developer at At&T and TJC Labs. For ten years, served as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, including a spell as Founder and Tech Lead / Manager of the Chrome Speed Team.
TR Vishwanath
(Engineering Lead)Before co-founding Glean, was a Principal Software Engineer at Facebook after spending eight years at Microsoft as a Software Design Engineer, then Principal Development Lead.
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