Product Designer

About the role

This Product Designer role at Notion focuses on creating product concepts and new features. The work involves crafting every detail from initial ideas through user experience design to final pixel-perfect execution. A key part of the role is driving projects to completion by working closely with engineers.

The designer will partner with Customer Experience, Sales, and Customer Success teams to understand the needs of diverse user segments. This collaboration informs product roadmap prioritization, planning, and scoping. The role also involves working with Marketing to develop narratives for the user lifecycle across various channels.

Success in this position means designing intuitive, practical, and convergent patterns while intentionally evolving Notion's design system. The ideal candidate will balance design craft, speed, and business potential, ensuring that designs are not only visually appealing but also meet business needs and are practical to implement.

The estimated base salary range for this role, specifically for San Francisco, is between $285,000 and $330,000 per year.

Who this role suits

• You have a track record of leading design projects independently from start to finish.
• You are driven to understand customer needs and advocate for user experiences that solve their problems.
• You can simplify complex conceptual problems into accessible mental models and user flows.
• You value cross-functional collaboration and can communicate design stories effectively to various stakeholders.

From the employer

What You'll Achieve:

• Design product concepts that balance vision, craft, speed, and business potential.
• Craft every detail of new product features, from idea to UX to pixel-perfect execution.
• Run projects end to end with engineers to drive your vision to the ship line.
• Partner closely with our Customer Experience, Sales, and Customer Success teams to understand what each of our diverse user segments need, want, and love about Notion. Use this data and acquired intuition to prioritize, plan, and scope our product roadmap.
• Work with Marketing to devise new ways to tell great stories throughout the user lifecycle, and across our site, product, help guides and other channels.
• Create new patterns that are intuitive, practical, and convergent. Evolve our design system intentionally as we scale.

Skills You'll Need to Bring:

• You have well-rounded skills and experience to run projects independently end to end. 5+ years of working experience.
• You seek to understand the needs of customers then explore and advocate for the strongest user experiences to solve their problems.
• You enjoy untangling vague conceptual problems and have a sharp intuition for the most accessible mental models and flows, so users can immediately start gaining value out of the product.
• You create clear, intuitive, and visually appealing human interfaces.
• You care about business needs, implications, and practicality of your designs. You don't get stuck on pretty UI or deep abstractions and can balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.
• You have strong beliefs, loosely held. You're a good listener who collaborates well with different stakeholders. You observe and internalize all inputs and feedback to help you reach an optimal decision.
• You understand how to tell stories using both words and visuals, and strategize the best ways to drive alignment.
• You value working cross-functionally with project management, engineering, research and data — as well as design peers.

What the Company Offers:

• Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits.
• The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below.
• For roles based in San Francisco, the estimated base salary range for this role is $285,000 - $330,000 per year.