Senior Staff Product Designer - Shared Experiences

Intuit; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 203,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit in Mountain View is seeking a Senior Staff Product Designer to drive cross-domain strategy and elevate design quality across multiple product areas. You will identify systemic opportunities and establish guiding principles to align teams around cohesive experience direction.

This role focuses on shaping long-term design strategy, improving cross-team collaboration, and ensuring design contributes to key business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing large-scale digital products.
• Experience shaping cross-domain design strategy.
• Strong systems thinking and strategic judgment.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• A portfolio demonstrating both craft excellence and strategic impact.

Responsibilities

• Define experience direction across multiple product areas.
• Shape multi-quarter or multi-year experience strategy.
• Identify high-leverage opportunity spaces and systemic friction.
• Establish principles and frameworks that guide cross-team decisions.
• Align senior Product and Engineering leaders around cohesive strategy.
• Elevate interaction and visual quality across domains.
• Strengthen and evolve shared design standards and interaction models.
• Reduce fragmentation and design debt across product surfaces.
• Balance experimentation with long-term clarity and trust.
• Lead large, ambiguous explorations that span teams.
• Use analytics and research to identify strategic opportunities.
• Connect design investments to measurable customer and business outcomes.
• Partner closely with Engineering and Data Science to shape scalable architecture.
• Drive thoughtful AI-assisted and AI-native experience patterns across domains.
• Communicate cross-domain design strategy clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Influence decision-making beyond your immediate teams.
• Lead large cross-functional initiatives requiring alignment across organizations.
• Mentor Staff and Senior Designers to elevate systems thinking.
• Strengthen design practices, processes, and quality standards across teams.

Skills

Design leadership

Cross-domain strategy

Systems thinking

Stakeholder influence

Portfolio demonstrating impact

Job description

Overview

QuickBooks supports millions of small and mid-sized businesses managing real money, real employees, and real risk. Designing in this space requires clarity in complexity, systems thinking at scale, and an uncompromising commitment to craft.

Overview

QuickBooks supports millions of small and mid-sized businesses managing real money, real employees, and real risk. Designing in this space requires clarity in complexity, systems thinking at scale, and an uncompromising commitment to craft. As a Senior Staff Product Designer, you will drive cross-domain experience strategy and elevate design quality across multiple product areas. You’ll identify systemic opportunities, establish guiding principles, and align senior stakeholders around cohesive experience direction. This role focuses on shaping long-term strategy, improving how teams work together, and ensuring design meaningfully contributes to business impact.

Responsibilities

Strategic Design Leadership

• Define experience direction across multiple product areas
• Shape multi-quarter or multi-year experience strategy
• Identify high-leverage opportunity spaces and systemic friction
• Establish principles and frameworks that guide cross-team decisions
• Align senior Product and Engineering leaders around cohesive strategy

Craft Excellence & Systems Innovation

• Elevate interaction and visual quality across domains
• Strengthen and evolve shared design standards and interaction models
• Reduce fragmentation and design debt across product surfaces
• Balance experimentation with long-term clarity and trust
• Lead large, ambiguous explorations that span teams

Data Fluency & Technical Partnership

• Use analytics and research to identify strategic opportunities
• Connect design investments to measurable customer and business outcomes
• Partner closely with Engineering and Data Science to shape scalable architecture
• Drive thoughtful AI-assisted and AI-native experience patterns across domains

Influence & Organizational Impact

• Communicate cross-domain design strategy clearly to senior stakeholders
• Influence decision-making beyond your immediate teams
• Lead large cross-functional initiatives requiring alignment across organizations
• Mentor Staff and Senior Designers to elevate systems thinking
• Strengthen design practices, processes, and quality standards across teams

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience designing large-scale digital products
• Experience shaping cross-domain design strategy
• Strong systems thinking and strategic judgment
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders
• A portfolio demonstrating both craft excellence and strategic impact

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

The Expected Base Pay Range For This Position Is

Mountain View $203,000 - $274,500