Senior Staff Product Designer — Remote, Strategy & Systems

GE Vernova, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) matching

Tuition assistance

Paid parental leave

Life insurance

Job summary

GE Vernova is seeking a Senior Staff Product Designer to lead end-to-end design within a product domain, partnering with Product Management and Engineering to shape strategy and deliver high-quality experiences. You will influence roadmaps, mentor designers, and drive reusable design practices across the team.

This senior IC role emphasizes hands-on design, system thinking, and hands‑on problem solving with a focus on accessibility and scalable design systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 10 years of professional experience in product design, interaction design, or user experience, including complex enterprise or platform-level initiatives.
• A portfolio demonstrating problem framing, interaction design, systems thinking, prototyping, product strategy, and end-to-end product impact, including examples of using and contributing to design systems.
• Experience building deep domain expertise and partnering with Product Management and Engineering throughout the product lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to identify ambiguous or systemic problems, frame them clearly, establish a path forward, and lead others toward resolution without formal authority.
• Experience establishing or improving reusable design practices, tools, frameworks, or methods that benefit practitioners beyond an individual product effort.
• Experience mentoring designers and facilitating critique, workshops, or other collaborative design practices.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and navigate competing priorities with diplomacy and sound judgment.
• Strong working knowledge of accessibility standards, inclusive design practices, design systems, and the process of turning designs into working software.
• Experience using research, product analytics, customer feedback, and other evidence to evaluate product outcomes and inform design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end product design within the assigned domain, moving fluidly between problem framing, workflow design, prototyping, validation, detailed interaction design, and implementation partnership.
• Design cohesive experiences across workflows, products, and user roles, applying established design-system patterns and identifying opportunities to improve them.
• Use qualitative research, product analytics, customer feedback, business evidence, and technical input to inform and evaluate design decisions.
• Champion design quality through attention to usability, accessibility, and interaction details, working in partnership with the design-system owner.
• Take ownership of selected Product Design capabilities or team practices in addition to embedded product responsibilities, such as design critique, designer onboarding, research practices, prototyping, design quality, or knowledge sharing.
• Identify recurring problems, capability gaps, or ineffective ways of working; frame the problem, determine the appropriate approach, and lead it toward resolution rather than relying on design leadership to solve it.
• Determine what expertise, stakeholders, evidence, or cross-functional participation is needed to solve a problem and assemble the appropriate group to move it forward.
• Navigates road blocks, ambiguity and organizational complexity constructively, using evidence, facilitation, diplomacy, and sound judgment to reach better outcomes.
• Create and maintain reusable practices, frameworks, tools, guidance, or operating mechanisms that help designers work more effectively and independently, and evolve or simplify them when they are no longer serving their intended purpose.
• Bring design leadership in as an advisor, sponsor, or escalation point when their perspective or authority is materially needed while retaining ownership of the problem and follow-through.

Skills

Product design

Systems thinking

Prototype design

Accessibility knowledge

Design systems

Influence stakeholders

Mentor designers

Research methods

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in design

Tools

HTML

CSS

Job description

GE Vernova is seeking a Senior Staff Product Designer to lead end-to-end design within a product domain, partnering with Product Management and Engineering to shape strategy and deliver high-quality experiences. You will influence roadmaps, mentor designers, and drive reusable design practices across the team.

This senior IC role emphasizes hands-on design, system thinking, and hands‑on problem solving with a focus on accessibility and scalable design systems.