Product Design Lead

Merge Dev•San Francisco, CA

59d•$165,000 - $190,000•Onsite

About The Position

Merge is the leading provider of agentic tools and customer-facing integrations for frontier LLMs, Fortune 500 organizations, and B2B SaaS companies. Our platform offers two core products: Merge Unified, which enables businesses to add hundreds of integrations to their products with a single API, and Merge Agent Handler, which empowers AI agents with secure access to thousands of third-party tools. Merge's enterprise-grade platform handles the entire integration lifecycle, from authentication and security to monitoring and maintenance. Thousands of companies trust Merge to accelerate product development, unblock sales, reduce customer churn, and save engineering resources-allowing them to focus on their core product. Design excellence is central at Merge - it shapes how developers adopt us, how customers evaluate us, and how we execute at speed. We're looking for a Product Design Lead who upholds that standard by bringing clarity to complex problems and raising the craft across everything we ship. In this role, you will: Own and elevate the end-to-end experience of Merge's core product. Balance vision and detail - zooming out to define systems and zooming in to sweat the pixels. Push for simplicity, polish, and consistency across everything we ship. Be highly opinionated, while also being collaborative and adaptable with product and engineering peers. Thrive in an in-office, high-energy environment where design has a seat at the leadership table. This is a role for a designer who wants to leave fingerprints on a fast-growing product and scale design practice inside a company that holds the bar high.

Requirements

Strong portfolio demonstrating deep systems thinking, visual craft, and an ability to translate ambiguous problems into practical user-centric solutions
5-7+ years of experience as a product designer, with additional involvement leading company-wide design initiatives.
Strong ability to articulate design decisions and communicate complex concepts clearly through compelling storytelling
Strong collaboration abilities with other designers, product managers, and engineers, including exposure to mentoring more junior designers
Expertise in Figma, UX research methods, writing product specifications, creating interactive prototypes, and conducting design reviews
Ability to explore multiple design solutions broadly before focusing deeply on the most promising approaches
Conscientious advocate for product quality and achievement of user-oriented goals

Responsibilities

Lead design for Merge's core platform, from concept through launch.
Be very opinionated, sweat the details, strive for simplicity, and relentlessly push the broader team around you to uphold an exceptionally high design standard.
Partner with founders, product, and engineering to translate strategy into user-centered solutions.
Create and maintain a design system that balances speed with consistency.
Conduct customer research and prototype high-fidelity experiences to uncover friction and validate ideas.
Push the org toward higher standards in usability, visual quality, and design process.
Mentor designers and influence how design integrates into Merge's broader product culture.