Northwind Labs
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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.