Staff Product Designer: Developer Experience

Good Maven; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options program

Comprehensive health plans and perks

Job summary

Sanity.io is seeking a senior UX leader to shape developer experiences across our AI-powered content operating system. You will work with product and engineering to design for developers and non-technical builders, balancing quality and velocity.

This remote role welcomes candidates across the US (excluding Hawaii and Alaska). Expect 8+ years of experience, strong UI craft, and ownership of end-to-end projects; salary 175,000–200,000 USD with stock options.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in UX/design leadership.
• Strong background designing developer experiences and understanding developer needs.
• Excellent UI design sensibility and visual craft.
• Ability to own projects end-to-end as a solo UX lead with balance of quality and velocity.

Responsibilities

• Ship world-class products as part of the ADX team, building for developers and non-technical builders.
• Shape an evolving design culture within a team of high-craft Product Designers.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to design agentic AI products and developer experiences across Sanity’s flagship offerings.
• Create and iterate on flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals.
• Establish guidelines and contribute to the Sanity design system.

Skills

Developer experience design

UI design & visual craft

AI-native design workflows

End-to-end project ownership

Tools

React

JavaScript

Job description

This role is remote and open to candidates in every U.S. state, except Hawaii and Alaska.

Sanity.io

we’re building the future of AI-powered Content Operations. Our AI Content Operating System gives teams the freedom to model, create, and automate content the way their business works, accelerating digital development and supercharging content operations efficiency. Companies like SKIMS, Figma, Riot Games, Anthropic, COMPLEX, Nordstrom, Arc’teryx, and Morningbrew are using Sanity to power and automate their content operations.

What you will be doing:

• Ship world-class products as part of the Agent and Developer Experience (ADX) team, building for developers and non technical builders who care deeply about quality, performance, and finish.
• Shape an evolving design culture within a team of high craft Product Designers.
• Partner with your Product and Engineering counterparts to design agentic AI products and developer experiences across Sanity’s flagship offerings.
• Find inspiration at the intersection of experience, infrastructure, and organizational needs.
• Create, and iterate on flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals.
• Establish guidelines, systems and patterns that contribute to the Sanity design system
• Set the industry bar for what good looks like.

About you:

• Remote USA
• 8+ years experience
• A strong background in designing developer experiences. Understanding of developer needs and ability to quickly grasp Sanity’s core products and customer (CLI, Sanity MCP Server, Content Lake, etc)
• An eye for UI design and strong visual craft
• Can demonstrate AI native design workflows
• Experience contributing to or maintaining design systems, including component creation
• Can demonstrate the ability to own projects end-to-end, working autonomously as a solo UX lead, with an adaptable approach to balance both quality and velocity
• Strong nice to have:Experience working on complex SaaS/B2B products
• Experience working in fast paced start-ups and scale-ups
• Frontend engineering skills (React, Javascript)

What we can offer:

• A highly-skilled, inspiring, and supportive team
• Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment that encourages long-term professional and personal growth
• A global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers
• Comprehensive health plans and perks
• A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs
• Salary between $175,000 to $200,000, dependent on experience
• Stock options program

About us:

Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. One of our big differentiators is treating content as data so that it can be stored in a single source of truth, but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business. Backed by Netlify, Vercel, the founders of Twitter and Medium, Heroku’s ex-CEO, and leading VCs like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, and Lead Edge Capital, Sanity is at the epicenter of the modern digital product development stack.

You can only build a great company with a great culture.

Read about our values

and join us in building a diverse and inclusive team.

Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.