Senior Product Designer

Justworks; New York (NY); On-site; USD 166,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

Justworks is seeking a Senior Product Designer in New York City to craft seamless workflows and delightful product experiences for small business customers and their employees. You will work with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to define opportunities and deliver coherent experiences across the product.

You will drive discovery, balance user needs with business constraints, and contribute to design systems while mentoring peers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in product design, ideally in B2B SaaS, HR tech, benefits, insurance, or related domains.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver design solutions for business-critical efforts and long-term engagement paths for small business customers and their employees.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to define strategic opportunities and coherent experiences.
• Lead discovery efforts, frame design problems, and translate them into actionable solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to test, iterate, and launch impactful experiences.
• Extend and adapt design patterns and systems across teams and projects.
• Support less-experienced designers contributing to shared efforts.

Skills

Product design

Cross-functional collaboration

Figma

AI prototyping tools

Tools

Figma

AI prototyping

Job description

Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

You’re an experienced product designer with a passion for clarifying complexity by crafting seamless workflows and delightful product experiences.

You’re confident working independently through the design process—from discovery through delivery—and adept at balancing user needs with business and technical constraints. You think beyond simple layouts, in terms of user journeys and workflows. You know when to rely on established design systems and when—and how—to extend those systems.

You communicate clearly, collaborate effectively across disciplines, and thrive as part of a cross-functional team. Your work is grounded in empathy for users, attention to detail, and a commitment to delivering practical outcomes that help users make informed choices.

About the Role

As a Senior Product Designer, you will define and deliver design solutions to business-critical efforts, creating seamless first impressions and long-term engagement paths for our small business customers and their employees. You will partner closely with peers in Product, Engineering, and Marketing to define strategic opportunities and bring coherent experiences to life.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

• Design and deliver intuitive, polished user interfaces that that guide users through complex decisions and transitions, reduce friction, and build customer trust from first touch through ongoing engagement.
• Collaborate closely with partners in Product, Engineering, and Marketing to define scope and align on user and business goals.
• Participate in discovery efforts and leverage insights to frame design problems and translate them into actionable solutions.
• Pair with cross-functional partners to test, iterate, and launch impactful experiences.
• Partner with peers in other design teams to extend and adapt design patterns and systems where necessary.
• Help guide and support less-experienced designers contributing to shared efforts.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Senior Product Designer, how results are achieved is as important as the results themselves. Success in this role is anchored in the following competencies:

• Customer Focus: Advocate for user needs and balance these with business constraints, grounding design in insights and data.
• Systems thinking: Design across connected steps and decisions, rather than isolated features.
• Craft excellence: Deliver high-quality, polished work that aligns with the Justworks brand and design system guidelines.
• Collaboration: Work closely with partners in Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Research to shape and deliver solutions.
• Communication: Use artifacts and storytelling to build shared understanding and guide team decisions.
• Adaptability: Stay grounded in user needs while flexing approaches to meet evolving context or constraints.

In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
• Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
• Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

Qualifications

Prior Experience

• 5+ years of professional experience in product design, ideally in B2B SaaS, HR tech, benefits, insurance, or related domains.
• Strong collaboration experience working as part of a cross-functional team, collaborating fluidly with engineers, product managers, researchers, marketers, data scientists, and others.
• Experience driving initiatives from discovery through delivery across multiple product areas.
• Attention to detail, and a refined sense of craft in visual design, typography, and brand expression.
• Fluency in Figma and AI prototyping tools.

Portfolio

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $166,000.00 to $214,000.00 per year.

Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.

For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks.

Diversity At Justworks

Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at [e-mail]. Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.

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