Staff product designer

About the role

Northwind is rebuilding the developer-experience layer for data teams — pipelines, observability, and cataloging in one editorial canvas. We're looking for a staff designer to own the systems that hold it together: the design language, the component library, and the long-form patterns our customers live inside every day.

What you'll do

• Set the visual and interaction direction for the next major release of the canvas.
• Own the design system end-to-end: tokens, components, motion, documentation.
• Partner with engineering on the boundary between design files and shipped code — Figma → React via design tokens.
• Run quarterly research with senior data engineers to keep the system grounded in real workflows.
• Mentor the rest of the design team — currently three product designers and one design engineer.

What we're looking for

• 7+ years shipping product design at a B2B SaaS or developer-tools company.
• Track record of running a design system that scaled past a single product surface — you've made the trade-offs and lived with them.
• Strong opinions on type, density, and editorial information design.
• Comfortable in code: you read the React, you write the tokens, you can prototype in CSS when it matters.
• Remote-first communicator. Long-form writing is your default mode of design review.

What you'll get

• Founding-team-level scope and equity grant on a Series B trajectory.
• Six-week paid recharge after every two years.
• Top-tier hardware budget, plus an annual €2,000 home-office stipend.
• Health + dental coverage in your home country, paid in full.
• Quarterly company offsites in Lisbon — flights and lodging covered.