Senior Product Designer

30,000 products are launched every year, and 90% of them fail. Highlight is the first and only end-to-end agile product testing platform, enabling the efficient collection of scaled product performance data. Brands like Nestle, P&G, and Estee Lauder rely on Highlight for competitive benchmarking, pre-launch formulation testing, in-market product renovation, and more, to optimize product success. Highlight, launched in 2021, has seen runaway growth and scale, having tested hundreds of products at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional analog methods, and becoming the dominant SaaS platform in the product testing space. Highlight is a woman-owned, minority-owned startup on a mission to create better products for people and the planet. We’re a diverse and collaborative team committed to fostering an environment of innovation, impact, and growth.

We are seeking a talented and experienced Senior Product Designer to own and elevate the user experience across our platform. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in designing intuitive, efficient, and impactful experiences that empower users. Reporting to the VP of Product and working within a highly collaborative environment, you will help shape the end-to-end journey, ensuring seamless interactions that drive engagement and value.

Your Impact

• Take ownership of design and user experience for key areas of our platform, guiding projects from concept to launch
• Work on surface areas ranging from consumer mobile-first experiences to enterprise customer-facing workflows to internal tooling. Your work will span the entire product lifecycle, including designing new products from the ground up and refining existing features
• Tackle complex, ambiguous challenges by breaking them into actionable steps, prioritizing high-impact work, and rallying cross-functional teams around solutions
• Focus on simplicity and clarity, ensuring even the most intricate tasks feel intuitive and user-friendly
• Use customer insights, data, and feedback to identify pain points, explore innovative solutions, and create prototypes that drive meaningful improvements
• Champion the user perspective by continuously refining and enhancing our product experiences to deliver exceptional value
• Collaborate with the other designers to shape our long-term vision, design systems, and brand guidelines while improving internal processes
• Engage in team rituals such as product/design reviews and stand-ups to foster collaboration and alignment
• Play a key role in elevating our product design and development capabilities – having an opinion and bringing fresh perspectives to our work

About You

• 5+ years of experience in tech, startups, or digital product design, either in-house or at an agency
• Proven expertise in end-to-end product design, blending UX and UI to create seamless, user-centered experiences
• A track record of collaborating with developers and product managers to build and ship software applications
• Visual design skills paired with a deep understanding of UX principles
• Background in visual/interaction design and branding
• Proficiency in creating both low and high-fidelity prototypes to test and validate ideas
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and work effectively across teams

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision) with 100% of employee premiums covered
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible, remote WFH culture
• Access to the iconic Hearst Tower & its facilities in NYC (should you choose to ever be in person)
• Based on previous experience and skillset, the starting salary range for this position: $120,000 – $150,000 annually

You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. At Highlight, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful. We are committed to building a team that comes from a wide range of backgrounds – including but not limited to – race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, disability, and veteran status. If you’re someone who can think rigorously and isn’t afraid to challenge assumptions, join us.

We’ve built a world-class team with decades of experience in the space. We’ve encountered the problems we’re trying to solve first hand and care deeply about making better products. We’ve been fortunate to raise a seed round from First Round Capital as well as experienced angels and insiders to help us further our mission. We’re also a passionate, capable, and empathetic team who live by our Humans First value. We have fun, we care about one another, and we’re all in on tacos.