Staff Product Designer, Apollo

• Experience designing technical products for developers, enterprise, or technical users
• Skill with Figma and modern design tools
• A portfolio showing your process from discovery to implementation
• Experience working with product managers and engineers
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS basics
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to independently conduct appropriate user research
• You have a portfolio showing your work, end-to-end
• You enjoy designing for complex technical products
• You're skilled at gathering user insights and applying them to your design decisions
• You're comfortable in Figma and can create detailed design artifacts
• You understand or are curious about how developers think (and making tools that are useful for them)
• You've been designing for years and know your stuff:
• You understand typography, color theory, layouts, and responsive design
• You care about accessibility and advocate for incorporating it into your work
• You know how to use a design system but also know when to go outside its bounds
• You explore multiple approaches before settling on a direction
• You work well with product managers and engineers, and know how to navigate team dynamics
• You stay connected to design trends and the broader tech community
• You understand how HTML/CSS affects implementation (bonus if you can write some yourself)
• You have strong opinions about what makes a good experience—you can spot when something feels "off" and articulate why

Desirable

• We're looking for a Staff Product Designer who can partner with our product and engineering teams to take our user experiences to the next level
• You'll be part of a company that's scaling rapidly, making significant contributions that shape how developers use GraphQL to build better software
• Your work will be used by many of the world's most innovative companies
• You'll collaborate with PMs, engineers, and teammates across Apollo to turn user needs into functional, appealing designs
• You'll own the design process for key projects, working with product managers and engineering leads to define solutions and seeing them through to completion
• You'll build visualizations that help developers understand API schemas at a glance, create interfaces where they can connect APIs without writing much code, and design dashboards for managing schemas, monitoring events, and tracking usage across teams
• Design tools used by developers at companies like Netflix, The New York Times, and Walmart
• Create interfaces that make complex technical concepts actually make sense
• Join a team that's scaling rapidly as market demand for our technology grows
• Build products that genuinely change how companies build and scale their APIs