Lead Product Designer

Great Question; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic startup as a Lead Product Designer, where your design expertise will shape innovative solutions for customer research. In this pivotal role, you'll lead end-to-end designs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and influence product strategy while working in a highly valued design culture. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a well-funded startup backed by Y Combinator, where your skills will directly impact the user experience and drive business success. If you're passionate about user-centered design and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity

Medical insurance with large company contribution

Always remote

Education stipends

Flexible PTO and holidays

Regular team events and virtual gatherings

Qualifications

• 7-12 years of software product design experience with a strong portfolio.
• T-shaped designer with expertise in one core area and strong skills in others.

Responsibilities

• Lead design work for complex problem spaces from inception to launch.
• Conduct user research and usability testing to evaluate design decisions.

Skills

User Experience Principles

Design Taste

Product Sense

Research Aptitude

Collaboration Skills

Leadership Skills

Communication Skills

Presentation Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Design or Related Field

Tools

Figma

Job description

About Great Question

Great Question is the all-in-one customer research platform for understanding your customers. Run interviews, surveys, and prototype tests while using AI to analyze it all in one place.

We’re a well-funded, seed-stage startup backed by Y Combinator and Funders Club, working with some of the most innovative companies in the world like Gusto, Experian, Canva & Brex.

We’re post product-market-fit but pre-Series A: the perfect time for an ambitious operator to join a fast growth startup.

Role overview

As a Lead Product Designer at Great Question, you will play a pivotal role in leading the design of comprehensive product areas. The work will include a balance of tactical improvements to existing experiences, larger re-designs of existing experiences, and designs for net new capabilities.

This role requires a deep understanding of user experience principles, design taste, product sense, research aptitude, and the ability to work collaboratively across teams to deliver elegant and effective solutions to customer problems that drive our business forward.

What you’ll do

• Lead design work for complex problem spaces from inception to launch

• Help set and raise the bar for design quality

• Work across multiple workstreams, ensuring design consistency and quality

• Collaborate on, or sometimes lead, the shaping of product requirements that you’ll design

• Participate in design critiques and coworking sessions with other designers

• Conduct user research and usability testing to evaluate design decisions

• Collaborate closely with engineers, project managers, and other stakeholders

• Leverage and contribute to our design system

What we’re looking for

• 7-12 years of experience in software product design with a strong portfolio.

• Experience in B2B SaaS working with large enterprise customers.

• T-shaped designers, expertise in one core area of design with strong skills in other areas of design.

• Interest and ability to run research to evaluate your design decisions.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools (we use Figma).

• Strong collaboration skills to work with cross-functional partners.

• Strong leadership skills and a passion for user-centered design.

Why join Design at Great Question

• Lead end-to-end designs

• Lead large product areas

• Ship designs regularly

• Dogfood the product you design

• Help shape the design culture

• Help shape and influence the product strategy

• Work where Design is highly valued and baked into operations

• Collaborate with Sales and Success to discover customer needs

Interview process

• Discovery call

• Design thinking exercise

• Portfolio review

• Cultural interviews

• Offer

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.

• Medical insurance - large company contribution.

• Always remote.

• Education stipends.

• Flexible PTO and holidays.

• Offsites, regular team events, virtual gatherings, and more.