Senior Product Designer
Span, San Francisco, CA, United States
About Span
Span exists to help engineering organizations turn AI adoption into real effectiveness. As AI tools reshape how software gets built, the companies that continuously improve how their teams use AI in their day‑to‑day will pull ahead. We're the AI‑native developer intelligence platform built for that moment. We're looking for people who want to shape the next generation of high‑performing engineering orgs operate.
We're a Series A company with a small, focused team that moves fast and ships things that matter. We’re proud to be helping forward‑thinking orgs like Ramp, Carvana, Intercom, and OpenTable. We're honored to be backed by dozens of founders, CTOs, and CPOs we admire from Slack, Notion, Rippling, Fivetran, Coda, Adobe, and Square, as well as funds including Alt Capital, BoxGroup, Bling, Craft, and SV Angel.
About The Role
We're hiring a Senior Product Designer to join our team and help shape the future of Span's platform. You'll work across the full design stack to deliver outcomes, from early exploration to shipped product, and be a key voice in how we design for a technically sophisticated audience of engineering leaders and developers.
Design at Span punches well above our weight. With a team of three, we own the end‑to‑end product experience, the design system, and the visual language of the brand. Our goal every day is to find ways to improve Span tenfold. As a result, we want someone who forms strong opinions about what we should build, pushes back when the product direction or craft isn't there yet, leverages AI to increase their throughput, and brings a point of view that elevates the whole team.
What You'll Do
Use AI throughout your process to give you leverage: prototype with V0, Figma Make, Cursor, or Claude to quickly shape your ideas and build confidence in a direction.
Own design for one or more product areas end‑to‑end, from discovery and framing through to polished, shipped UI.
Work on complex data‑dense interfaces where clarity, hierarchy, and interpretability are everything.
Seek signal from customers in whatever way makes sense to develop a real understanding of the problems we’re solving.
Collaborate daily with engineering, product, and GTM to shape what we build and its narrative, not just how it looks.
Contribute to and evolve our design system, raising the floor of our experience and enabling the team to ship coherent experiences quickly.
Contribute to our team culture, finding ways for us to get 1% better every day.
What We're Looking For
Early‑stage ambition: prefer ambiguity to well‑defined scope, comfortable with pivoting when new insights arrive, wear multiple hats, and obsess over the business as much as the product.
Experience: 4+ years as a product designer, ideally in B2B SaaS or a developer tools company. Owned projects end‑to‑end and showcases a portfolio highlighting impact.
Craft: Strong visual judgment and accountability for what ships, not just what is designed.
Collaborative: Balanced confidence with humility, actively seek perspectives from cross‑functional teammates, listen more than speak, communicate clearly when speaking is called for.
AI fluency: Push AI tooling limits, treat AI as a multiplier, not a shortcut.
About Span Design
You’ll be joining a design team of three (spanning brand and product design) that punches well above its size. We’re close‑knit and genuinely collaborative: we share feedback early and often, and build something together rather than working in silos.
Collectively, we’ve shipped products at companies like Lattice, Shopify, and Vanta. We’ve worked across early, mid, and late‑stage companies, which means we know how to build structure where there isn’t any and how to operate with the scrappiness that a Series A demands.
Our north star as a team: craft an end‑to‑end experience that makes Span feel 10x bigger than we actually are. That ambition runs through two operating tenets we hold ourselves to every day:
Design ahead of the business: think at least a quarter ahead of the roadmap, finding innovation opportunities before the product needs them. We don’t wait to be handed a brief; we bring a point of view.
Create team leverage: invest in tools, systems, and partnerships that make the whole team move faster. That means a living design system, tight engineering collaboration, and using AI tooling to extend what three people can do.
In practice, this means you’ll have real ownership, real influence, and real accountability. We don’t have enough people to carry someone, but we also don’t have enough people to slow someone down. If this excites you, we’d love to chat! Let’s make some waves together at Span!
Compensation Range: $120K – $200K
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Span exists to help engineering organizations turn AI adoption into real effectiveness. As AI tools reshape how software gets built, the companies that continuously improve how their teams use AI in their day‑to‑day will pull ahead. We're the AI‑native developer intelligence platform built for that moment. We're looking for people who want to shape the next generation of high‑performing engineering orgs operate.
We're a Series A company with a small, focused team that moves fast and ships things that matter. We’re proud to be helping forward‑thinking orgs like Ramp, Carvana, Intercom, and OpenTable. We're honored to be backed by dozens of founders, CTOs, and CPOs we admire from Slack, Notion, Rippling, Fivetran, Coda, Adobe, and Square, as well as funds including Alt Capital, BoxGroup, Bling, Craft, and SV Angel.
About The Role
We're hiring a Senior Product Designer to join our team and help shape the future of Span's platform. You'll work across the full design stack to deliver outcomes, from early exploration to shipped product, and be a key voice in how we design for a technically sophisticated audience of engineering leaders and developers.
Design at Span punches well above our weight. With a team of three, we own the end‑to‑end product experience, the design system, and the visual language of the brand. Our goal every day is to find ways to improve Span tenfold. As a result, we want someone who forms strong opinions about what we should build, pushes back when the product direction or craft isn't there yet, leverages AI to increase their throughput, and brings a point of view that elevates the whole team.
What You'll Do
Use AI throughout your process to give you leverage: prototype with V0, Figma Make, Cursor, or Claude to quickly shape your ideas and build confidence in a direction.
Own design for one or more product areas end‑to‑end, from discovery and framing through to polished, shipped UI.
Work on complex data‑dense interfaces where clarity, hierarchy, and interpretability are everything.
Seek signal from customers in whatever way makes sense to develop a real understanding of the problems we’re solving.
Collaborate daily with engineering, product, and GTM to shape what we build and its narrative, not just how it looks.
Contribute to and evolve our design system, raising the floor of our experience and enabling the team to ship coherent experiences quickly.
Contribute to our team culture, finding ways for us to get 1% better every day.
What We're Looking For
Early‑stage ambition: prefer ambiguity to well‑defined scope, comfortable with pivoting when new insights arrive, wear multiple hats, and obsess over the business as much as the product.
Experience: 4+ years as a product designer, ideally in B2B SaaS or a developer tools company. Owned projects end‑to‑end and showcases a portfolio highlighting impact.
Craft: Strong visual judgment and accountability for what ships, not just what is designed.
Collaborative: Balanced confidence with humility, actively seek perspectives from cross‑functional teammates, listen more than speak, communicate clearly when speaking is called for.
AI fluency: Push AI tooling limits, treat AI as a multiplier, not a shortcut.
About Span Design
You’ll be joining a design team of three (spanning brand and product design) that punches well above its size. We’re close‑knit and genuinely collaborative: we share feedback early and often, and build something together rather than working in silos.
Collectively, we’ve shipped products at companies like Lattice, Shopify, and Vanta. We’ve worked across early, mid, and late‑stage companies, which means we know how to build structure where there isn’t any and how to operate with the scrappiness that a Series A demands.
Our north star as a team: craft an end‑to‑end experience that makes Span feel 10x bigger than we actually are. That ambition runs through two operating tenets we hold ourselves to every day:
Design ahead of the business: think at least a quarter ahead of the roadmap, finding innovation opportunities before the product needs them. We don’t wait to be handed a brief; we bring a point of view.
Create team leverage: invest in tools, systems, and partnerships that make the whole team move faster. That means a living design system, tight engineering collaboration, and using AI tooling to extend what three people can do.
In practice, this means you’ll have real ownership, real influence, and real accountability. We don’t have enough people to carry someone, but we also don’t have enough people to slow someone down. If this excites you, we’d love to chat! Let’s make some waves together at Span!
Compensation Range: $120K – $200K
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