Senior Staff Product Designer- Remote API & Developer Tools

Apollo; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Apollo is seeking a senior design leader to shape developer experiences and tooling for APIs and data access. You will set a cohesive vision, partner closely with engineering, and drive end-to-end design across multiple product areas from core experiences to onboarding and AI interfaces.

You will operate across a remote US team, owning standards, patterns, and measurable outcomes like activation and time-to-first-successful-API-call.

Qualifications

• 12+ years designing software, with a portfolio of shipped work.
• Experience designing technically complex products for technical users — developer tools, infrastructure, data, security, identity, or APIs.
• A track record of identifying high-leverage problems yourself and designing end-to-end solutions.
• Strong visual design and craft skills.
• Skilled at operating independently to turn ambiguous problems into cohesive vision.
• A track record of driving your own work: proactively surfacing problems and building alignment with engineering rather than waiting for direction.

Responsibilities

• Assess Apollo's product surfaces end to end, identify where design effort creates the most leverage, and drive that work from idea through execution.
• Lead the modernization of our core developer experiences — turning a set of powerful but disconnected features into coherent journeys.
• Partner with engineering as a peer, not a downstream recipient of requirements — bring your own point of view on what should get built, and make the case for it.
• Set design and craft standards that other builders — designers, PMs, and engineers alike — actually adopt, contributing patterns to our design system that speed up delivery beyond your own team.
• Know when a decision needs real usability testing and when it doesn't.
• Tie your design work to something the business measures: developer activation, time-to-first-successful-API-call, or support cost tied to a confusing flow.

Skills

12+ years designing software

Experience designing technically复杂?

Strong visual design

Independent problem solving

Drive own work with engineering

Job description

Apollo is seeking a senior design leader to shape developer experiences and tooling for APIs and data access. You will set a cohesive vision, partner closely with engineering, and drive end-to-end design across multiple product areas from core experiences to onboarding and AI interfaces.

You will operate across a remote US team, owning standards, patterns, and measurable outcomes like activation and time-to-first-successful-API-call.