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The role
Vercel is hiring a Staff Product Designer to lead design across our platform — the surface most developers encounter daily: dashboards, deployment flows, billing, the CLI, and the documentation layer that ties them together. You'll own design end-to-end, partner directly with engineering and product leads, and set the bar for what shipped work looks like.
This is a senior IC role. We're looking for someone who has shipped to engineers as customers, who thinks in systems, and who can navigate the ambiguity of a platform layer that touches every product team in the company.
We don't have a separate design team for "the platform" and "the products." A staff designer here owns a slice that cuts through both, and is expected to drive the visual and interaction system the rest of design pulls from.
What you'll do
- Lead design for the deployment, project, and team-management surfaces across the Vercel dashboard.
- Drive a coherent system for data-dense interfaces — logs, metrics, build pipelines, observability.
- Partner with the docs and CLI teams to maintain visual and interaction consistency across surfaces.
- Mentor mid-level designers; raise the craft floor without becoming a manager.
- Ship. Constantly. We deploy multiple times a day.
What we're looking for
- 7+ years shipping production software, with a portfolio that demonstrates breadth and depth.
- Prior experience designing for technical users — developer tools, infra, observability, or similar.
- Strong systems thinking: you've built and maintained design systems, not just consumed them.
- Comfort writing — design docs, RFCs, customer-facing release notes.
- A bias toward shipping over deliberating; we move fast and reverse decisions cheaply.
Compensation & benefits
- Base salary $190,000–$240,000 depending on level and location.
- Equity grant (RSUs) on a 4-year vest with a 1-year cliff. Specific grant size discussed at offer.
- Fully remote within the US. Optional desk in San Francisco, New York, or Brooklyn.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision (Vercel pays 100% of employee premiums).
- $2,000 home-office stipend, $200/mo wellness stipend, unlimited PTO with a 15-day floor.
- Two annual company offsites.
About Vercel
Vercel is the platform behind Next.js, used by millions of developers and teams at Nike, Adobe, OpenAI, The Washington Post, and tens of thousands of others. We're Series E, profitable, and building toward a future where the web is faster, more dynamic, and easier to ship for.
This listing was indexed from vercel.com/careers on April 28, 2026 at 09:14 ET. JobInventory is not the employer and does not screen applicants. Original posting authority remains with Vercel.