Role in brief
Notion is seeking a Product Designer to develop intuitive and visually appealing interfaces for its collaborative AI workspace. This role involves end-to-end design from concept to execution, close collaboration with various teams, and evolving the design system. Candidates with strong independent project management skills, a user-centric approach, and a balance of craft and business awareness should apply.
About the role
This Product Designer role at Notion focuses on creating new product features, from initial idea through to pixel-perfect execution. The work involves balancing vision, design quality, development speed, and business potential. A key part of the job is driving projects to completion by working closely with engineers.
The designer will partner with Customer Experience, Sales, and Customer Success teams to understand user needs across diverse segments. This collaboration helps in prioritizing, planning, and scoping the product roadmap. Additionally, the role involves working with the Marketing team to develop compelling narratives for users throughout their lifecycle and across various channels.
Success in this position means creating intuitive, practical, and convergent design patterns. The designer is also responsible for intentionally evolving Notion's design system as the product scales. This requires a strong understanding of user experience, visual design, and the ability to balance design ideals with practical business considerations.
The estimated base salary range for this role, specifically for candidates based in San Francisco, is $285,000 to $330,000 per year.
Skills that matter here
- product concepts: This role requires designing concepts that balance vision, craft, speed, and business potential.
- UX: The designer will craft every detail of new features, from idea to UX to pixel-perfect execution.
- design system: The role involves creating new patterns and intentionally evolving the design system as the company scales.
- project management: Candidates need well-rounded skills and experience to run projects independently from start to finish.
- user experiences: The designer must understand customer needs and advocate for the strongest user experiences to solve problems.
- visuals: The role requires creating clear, intuitive, and visually appealing human interfaces and telling stories using both words and visuals.
Who this role suits
- You are a designer who can independently manage projects from start to finish.
- You prioritize understanding customer needs and advocating for user-centered solutions.
- You enjoy tackling vague conceptual problems and can simplify them into accessible mental models.
- You balance strong design beliefs with an openness to feedback and collaboration across teams.
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.
Questions about this role
What is the remote work policy for this role?
This is a fully remote position.
What level of experience is required?
Candidates should have at least 5 years of working experience and the ability to run projects independently end-to-end.
How does this role contribute to the product roadmap?
The designer will partner with Customer Experience, Sales, and Customer Success teams to gather user insights, which will then be used to prioritize, plan, and scope the product roadmap.