Product Designer

Notion Labs, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco, California

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Design product concepts that balance vision, craft, speed, and business potential, ensuring features are both innovative and practical.
• Craft every detail of new product features from initial idea through UX design to pixel-perfect execution, maintaining high standards of visual and functional quality.
• Run projects end to end in partnership with engineering teams to drive product vision from concept to ship line.
• Collaborate closely with Customer Experience, Sales, and Customer Success teams to understand diverse user needs, wants, and behaviors, using insights to prioritize and scope the product roadmap.
• Partner with Marketing to create compelling user lifecycle stories across the product, website, help guides, and other communication channels.
• Develop new, intuitive, and convergent design patterns that enhance usability and scale with the product’s growth.
• Evolve and maintain Notion’s design system intentionally as the platform expands, ensuring consistency and coherence across all interfaces.
• Translate vague conceptual problems into clear, accessible mental models and user flows that enable immediate value for users.
• Create clear, intuitive, and visually appealing human interfaces that reflect timeless craftsmanship and mass appeal.
• Balance business implications and practical constraints with design excellence, avoiding over-prioritization of aesthetics at the expense of functionality or speed.
• Maintain strong, loosely held beliefs while actively listening to feedback from stakeholders across product management, engineering, research, data, and design.
• Use storytelling through both visuals and words to drive alignment across cross-functional teams and communicate design rationale effectively.
• Work cross-functionally with project management, engineering, research, and data teams to ensure design decisions are informed by real-world usage and business goals.
• Embrace AI tools as collaborators to work smarter, move faster, and build more creatively, without requiring deep AI expertise.
• Contribute to a culture of craftsmanship, humanity, and long-term thinking, where building lasting tools matters more than shipping the next feature.
• Design for a global user base that includes individuals, small teams, and large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, ensuring accessibility and adaptability across diverse use cases.
• Advocate for user-centered solutions rooted in deep empathy, observation, and intuition, not just data or trends.
• Maintain a focus on reducing fragmentation in work tools by creating seamless, unified experiences that connect docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email with AI.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional product design experience
• Proven ability to run end-to-end design projects independently
• Strong intuition for creating accessible mental models and intuitive user flows
• Experience crafting pixel-perfect, visually appealing interfaces with attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to balance business needs with design craft and speed
• Strong collaboration skills with engineering, research, data, and cross-functional teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary range of $205,000 - $300,000 per year for roles based in San Francisco
• Equity compensation
• Comprehensive benefits package
• In-office work required on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays (Anchor Days)
• Opportunity to work with a globally diverse team representing Notion’s customer base
• Culture that values craftsmanship, humanity, and building lasting tools

Skills & Technologies

Design

Onsite

$205k-300k

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About Notion Labs, Inc.

Notion Labs, Inc. develops a unified workspace platform that combines documents, databases, kanban boards, calendars, and wikis. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers collaborative tools for teams and individuals to plan, write, organize, and share knowledge. The software integrates with third-party services and supports real-time editing, templates, and permissions management. Founded in 2013, it serves global users across education, technology, and enterprise sectors, aiming to replace fragmented productivity apps with a single, modular environment.

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