Senior Product Designer, Platform

About the team

Lattice's Platform Team is building products and services that enable users – internally and externally – to achieve our mission of making work meaningful. Over the coming quarters, this team plans to deeply invest in new experiences that help ensure these outcomes for the companies and individuals we serve everyday. This role will be excellent for designers who love systems thinking, who get really excited about the details of user experience and user interface design, who thrive on serving and working with designers and engineers across product teams, and who love coming up with creative ideas to help drive customer impact.

As one of the first designers on this team, you will focus on designing and building world-class user interface designs as well as advocating for best practices that are foundational to our Engineering, Product and Design teams. Your work will enable quality-of-life improvements to the way we work and ensure a consistent experience for customers across our entire platform.

Who you are

You have 3+ years of experience designing and maintaining production-level design systems at a multi-faceted organization.

• You love the detailed intricacies of UX/UI design and implementation
• You know how to design complex components with multiple use-cases for application across a scaling organization
• You have worked on design systems, and understand how to build and maintain them, along with the necessary communication to ensure proper and healthy usage
• You have experience championing improvements across a large organization’s design system
• You understand and champion accessibility best practices and are passionate about helping every potential user

You’re a great communicator and collaborator.

• You understand what it takes to communicate to a large and diverse audience that will use the systems and patterns you and your team own
• You thrive on close collaboration with partners, but also take responsibility and ownership over the execution of your work
• You’re clear and concise in explaining your thought process and in enumerating the tradeoffs made in your work
• You take care to write documentation so that your colleagues can also own, understand, and maintain the system
• You work well with designers, product managers and engineers to achieve optimal solutions
• You care about contributing to and supporting a wider design team and helping to influence the industry at large

You enjoy taking an active role in the design process.

• You care about the details of the implementation, and you prefer to be hands-on
• You will be a forward-thinking advocate across the business for other teams to adopt changes from the design system
• You love mentoring, supporting, and championing best practices with other designers and colleagues
• You have experience taking the lead in planning and executing robust design systems

Responsibilities

• You'll work within a team to create, scale, and maintain a design system for use by our engineering, product and design teams
• You'll help design and build flexible, performant, accessible, and reusable front-end components for our design system
• You'll collaborate closely with design, engineering and product on the core pieces of the product that we own (navigation, dashboards, etc.)
• You'll be a champion for accessibility and consistent design across our engineering, product and design organization
• You’ll work closely with other design colleagues to document and refine usability and interactions across our product suite, including taking ownership over paying down design debt
• You’ll make contributions to our design team practices, identifying and evangelizing improvements to our team output, including advancing our visual and interaction design execution
• You'll socialize and elevate the role of design within the company
• You'll embody our team values and design principles

Why join our Design & Research Team?

We're a passionate group of people who are dedicated to growing together. Currently ~20, our team spans Brand Design, Product Design, and Research.

You can learn more about us in our Notion page! It covers who we are as individuals, some of our recent work, how we commit to DE&I, and most importantly — the rituals and rhythms we've invested in as a team to grow as craftspeople and just… people.

Why Lattice? 

• We invest in the personal and professional growth of every employee because we believe growth leads to both business impact and personal fulfillment
• The opportunity to join an experienced and ambitious team that is passionate about solving customers’ needs and loves coming to work every day
• Partner with 3,500+ companies around the world to make sure their employees are engaged and performing at a high level
• A culture that encourages and promotes professional growth and development, with continuous learning reimbursements
• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits
• Centrally located FiDi office in San Francisco and New York
• Flexible vacation/time-off policy

About Lattice

Lattice is on a mission to build cultures where employees and their companies thrive. In an age where innovation is happening all around us, there's commonality – people are driving these changes. We offer a solution that helps companies put employees first. Lattice is a people management tool that offers performance reviews, employee engagement surveys, real-time feedback, weekly check-ins, and goal setting in a way that allows companies to focus on employee development, growth, and engagement. Since launching in 2016 we have grown to over 3,100 customers globally, including brands like Slack, Reddit, Glossier, and Asana.

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Lattice is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. Lattice is an equal opportunity employer; committed to a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.