Senior Product Designer

The role

You will own the design of core workflow surfaces including issues, cycles, and project views. You will work with product managers, engineers, and researchers in a small team to build a work management platform for humans and AI agents.

What you will do

• Own the design of core workflow surfaces end to end from problem framing to high-fidelity spec
• Decide where the design system bends and where it holds
• Build new patterns when the system does not have an answer
• Run usability tests and reprioritize the roadmap based on findings
• Design for cloud product users and self-hosted users on unpredictable screen sizes
• Work daily with engineers and PMs across San Francisco and Hyderabad
• Defend design decisions to engineers in writing

Required qualifications

• Shipped end-to-end product design work
• Ability to design dense, data-heavy interfaces like task lists, tables, or kanban boards
• Fluent in Figma
• Can produce developer-ready specs
• Worked inside or built a design system
• Write and present clearly

Nice to have

• Contributed to Plane, used it self-hosted, or have opinions about it as a user
• Run usability testing or user research yourself
• Designed for developer or technical audiences before
• Worked at a B2B SaaS startup

About the company

Plane is a work management platform that brings projects, knowledge, and requests into one open, adaptable platform. It is used by teams around the world and is built for a future where humans and AI agents work together.