Staff Product Designer, MongoDB

• You’re a systems-oriented product designer with deep interaction design expertise and a passion for enabling great user experiences at scale
• You think beyond individual screens to the broader patterns, principles, workflows, and frameworks that help teams build cohesive, accessible products
• You’re energized by navigating complexity and ambiguity, translating it into actionable solutions that balance strategic vision with real-world adaptability
• You excel at driving clarity across teams with diverse needs and priorities, building strong relationships with designers, engineers, and product managers to align on shared solutions
• You’re curious about emerging technologies, especially AI, and excited by the opportunity to shape how intelligent, adaptive interfaces are reflected in design systems
• Above all, you care about delivering tools, patterns, and guidance that elevate the quality of MongoDB’s products while helping others do their best work
• 8+ years of experience in product design, with deep expertise in interaction design and systems-level thinking
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates end-to-end product thinking and interaction design across platforms, ideally within or in collaboration with design systems
• Experience contributing to, or leading design systems work, with a strong understanding of component libraries, UX patterns, and the evolution of systems beyond base UI components
• Experience designing for complex SaaS applications, especially those involving technical or developer-focused tooling
• Proven ability to distill team and user feedback into actionable improvements to patterns, guidance, and documentation
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and design partners to drive scalable, accessible, and high-quality system implementation
• Comfort partnering on research that combines qualitative insights and quantitative analytics to shape system evolution
• Strong systems design skills and iterative mindset, focusing on continuous improvement based on feedback and adoption metrics
• Strong communicator, able to clearly articulate design system impact, advocate for adoption, and align cross-functionally
• Strong interaction design background with systems-thinking expertise
• Experience scaling design systems from atomic components to reusable interaction patterns and templates
• Comfortable running or partnering on research to inform system development
• Proficiency in Figma, including management of shared libraries and scalable UX guidance
• Thrives in ambiguity, translating complexity into scalable, actionable solutions
• Builds trust across teams, driving alignment and advocacy for design systems adoption
• Mentors peers and partners to foster systems literacy and elevate design quality across the organization
• Balances consistency with real-world flexibility, adapting systems to support diverse product needs

Desirable

• Driving the evolution of our design system from atomic components to scalable interaction patterns and reusable templates tailored to product-specific workflows
• Collaborating with product teams to understand real-world usage and iterating based on feedback
• Exploring and scaling solutions for predictive, adaptive, or AI-assisted interaction patterns that integrate seamlessly with existing product experiences
• Facilitating workshops and co-creation sessions to drive systems-thinking and shared understanding across teams
• Leading cross-functional efforts to improve system adoption, documentation, and alignment across product areas
• Advocating for consistency, accessibility, and usability across the product portfolio while balancing flexibility for tailored workflows
• Shaping long-term design system strategy in close partnership with design, product, and engineering leadership, prioritizing scalable solutions that balance the evolving needs of product teams with consistency, accessibility, and usability across MongoDB’s portfolio
• Communicating design system rationale and decisions through compelling narratives, clear documentation, and actionable examples
• Mentoring other designers and elevating systems-thinking across MongoDB’s product design organization