Senior Product Designer

Zeta Global•New York, NY

27d•$70 - $80

About The Position

Zeta Global is seeking a Senior Product Designer to contribute to the future of the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP). This role involves working across the core ZMP platform, Athena OS, the Agentic Apps ecosystem, and the Data Cloud team. The designer will collaborate closely with the design system team and Product and Engineering triads, translating complex platform and data requirements into clear, consistent, and useful customer experiences. The position is crucial for enhancing quality, speed, and innovation across the platform, requiring strong skills in data visualization, UX, visual design, systems thinking, motion, and AI. This is a 6-month contract opportunity.

Requirements

Proven ability to design scalable systems, frameworks, and interfaces that support consistency, flexibility, and speed across complex product ecosystems.
Comfortable moving across a large platform like ZMP rather than owning one narrow surface.
Deep experience working in both Figma and AI tools, leveraging structured libraries, reusable patterns, and scalable design foundations.
Solid understanding of AI-powered workflows, agentic systems, and emerging interaction patterns, with hands-on experience using AI tools to inform, accelerate, and enhance product design.
Comfortable designing experiences shaped by models, context, and automation.
Excellence across UX, visual design, interaction design, motion, and a strong emphasis in data visualization.
Ability to design sophisticated workflows that feel intuitive, human, and high-quality, especially in technically complex environments.
Can clearly articulate problem → user job → system behavior → outcome.
Comfortable designing flows where intent matters more than screens.
Knows when not to add UI.
Strong understanding of animation as UX, not decoration.
Uses motion to explain system state changes, communicate AI progress and confidence, and reduce perceived latency.
Designs micro-interactions for loading → ready, generating → refining, and success/failure/partial results.
Strong comfort partnering with engineers, understanding technical constraints, and using prototyping (low- and high-fidelity, coded or no-code) to explore, validate, and communicate complex ideas.
Ability to influence outcomes through clarity, critique, documentation, and example-setting—raising the bar for quality and consistency across teams without relying on formal management.
Able to speak confidently to data visualization principles with designers, PMs, engineers, and executives alike.
Guides and implements data visualization design best practices across the platform.
Ensures the right chart type is used for the right data, prioritizing clarity of information over decoration, and knowing when a table, a number, or a chart best answers the user's question.
Comfortable presenting data-heavy design work to executive stakeholders, gathering and synthesizing their feedback, and balancing that input with best practices and user needs.
Expert level Figma experience with scalable component architecture, variants, auto-layout, design tokens, and shared libraries.
Hands-on, regular use of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or similar LLMs as part of your design workflow—for ideation, exploration, synthesis, critique, and system thinking.
Comfort using tools like Cursor, Bolt, Lovable, Claude Code, or similar to prototype and experiment on AI-enabled experiences.
Experience with Rive, Motion.dev, Framer Motion, GSAP, or D3 to design micro-animations and stateful interactions that communicate system behavior and progress.
Strong comfort with Figma Prototypes, Framer, ProtoPie, or similar to explore behavior, timing, and interaction.
Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and modern frontend concepts, with the ability to read code, collaborate deeply with engineers, and understand implementation tradeoffs.
Comfort with modern product development workflows: GitHub, Jira, Linear, Notion, Slack, Confluence.
Familiarity with MCP concepts, including how context, memory, tools, and agents influence system behavior and user experience.
Working knowledge of charting and visualization tools/libraries such as D3, Chart.js, Highcharts, Observable Plot, or Tableau, and how they map to Figma-designed chart components.
Familiarity with visualization principles: chart type selection, color and encoding for accessibility, axis and label clarity, and information density for executive-level reporting.
High Autonomy: Does not need step-by-step direction. Can take a fuzzy problem and drive it to clarity. Comfortable owning an area end-to-end.
Strong Judgment: Knows what's important vs. what's nice. Can say 'this doesn't need design' or 'this isn't worth solving yet.' Optimizes for impact, not aesthetics.
Clear Communicator: Explains thinking simply to PMs, Engineering, and Leadership. Writes clear rationale, not just design artifacts. Can disagree without being defensive.
Comfort with Ambiguity: Does not freeze when requirements are incomplete. Enjoys shaping the problem space, not just executing tickets. Can operate before things are fully defined.
Ownership & Accountability: Treats the product like theirs. Follows through. Cares about outcomes, not just delivery.
AI-Forward & Curious: Actively experiments with AI tools, workflows, and emerging technologies, and brings that learning back to the team.
Quality Advocate with Pragmatic Judgment: Cares deeply about craft and polish while understanding that perfect is the enemy of good. Knows when to push for excellence and when to ship, learn, and iterate.
7–10+ years of product design experience, with meaningful time spent on complex platforms, systems, or tools (B2B, SaaS, or AI-driven products strongly preferred).
Demonstrated experience leading foundational or platform-level design work that scales across teams, products, or workflows.
Hands-on experience designing and shipping features, workflows, or systems within large, complex platforms—AI-powered or otherwise.
Proven track record of partnering closely with Product and Engineering in fast-paced environments, ideally across more than one product area or team.
Experience mentoring designers, influencing standards, and shaping how design work scales—without needing formal management responsibility.
Experience presenting and iterating on data visualization or dashboard design with executive stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Storybook, React/Next.js
Experience with Rive, Motion.dev, Framer Motion, GSAP, or D3 to design micro-animations and stateful interactions that communicate system behavior and progress
Familiarity with MCP concepts, including how context, memory, tools, and agents influence system behavior and user experience
Working knowledge of charting and visualization tools/libraries such as D3, Chart.js, Highcharts, Observable Plot, or Tableau, and how they map to Figma-designed chart components
Familiarity with visualization principles: chart type selection, color and encoding for accessibility, axis and label clarity, and information density for executive-level reporting

Responsibilities

Design and evolve Data Visualization focused experiences across ZMP, Athena OS, Agentic Apps, and Data Cloud surfaces, adapting to shifting priorities.
Manage and improve shared design processes and provide quality oversight.
Contribute to the systematic foundation for consistency, scalability, and quality across the product ecosystem.
Partner with Product Management and Engineering to define strategy, scope, and execution, translating complex requirements into intuitive experiences.
Iterate and improve concepts to deliver on unique customer use cases.
Contribute to AI interaction models, agentic patterns, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) thinking.
Shape how data from Data Cloud and across the platform is surfaced, visualized, and understood.
Define how users understand, trust, and act on the systems and data within the marketing operating system.
Lead by example in visual design, interaction design, motion, prototyping, and data visualization to set a new quality bar.
Determine the best way to communicate data (chart, table, single number) and maintain a high bar for clarity.
Act as a force multiplier for the design team by mentoring designers, reviewing work, and challenging assumptions.
Create systems, interfaces, and processes that enable the company to scale high-quality product design with speed and consistency.