Staff Product Designer - Studio Developer Experience

Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems so companies like PUMA, Spotify, Figma, Riot Games , and Skims can create amazing digital experiences for their customers.

As Staff Product Designer, you will tackle some of Sanity’s most challenging problems and make an impact across the Sanity product and organization.

The Studio is Sanity’s collaborative application for content creation. The Studio DX team enables developers to build content authoring experiences that serve the needs of the business, content owners, and editors. These include publication solutions for media, e-commerce websites, marketing websites, and internal applications, among others.

You will design how code turns into an interface in the Sanity Studio such that writing code is efficient for developers, and the resulting experience is elegant and delightful for editors. You will work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry and lead design on the team with your product and engineering management peers.

As a designer at Sanity, you will engage in regular design reviews, hone your craft, learn and share skills, and help raise the bar for design across the organization. You will also support and evolve Sanity’s design system.

What you will do:

• Lead design on the Studio DX team
• Co-own the design system to continually improve UX quality of the Sanity product
• Develop insights through tactical research with enterprise customers and stakeholders
• Work with your co-leads to identify opportunities your team can pursue
• Facilitate discovery to arrive at unique solutions to complex problems
• Define experiences that are exemplary in function and form
• Support the build process to ship high-quality experiences
• Help manage the team along with your engineering and product manager peers
• Work on cross-team initiatives that have a broad impact on the product
• Offer mentorship to designers and raise design literacy across the org
• Continually elevate the quality of the team’s output through provocation and inspiration
• Excited by the opportunity to create win-win solutions for developers and editors
• Has a sufficient understanding of web development concepts to be comfortable defining how code should translate to UI
• Relentless champion for the user
• Able to think big but start small and move fast
• Comfortable working with highly technical and business audiences
• Strong visual and interaction design skills
• Excellent communication, both verbal and non-verbal
• A working knowledge of best practices for design processes at technology companies
• Experienced in discovery tools and methods, especially facilitation and tactical research
• At least 7 years as a product designer

Who we are:

Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. One of our big differentiators is treating content as data so that it can be stored in a single source of truth but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business.

Backed by Netlify, Vercel, the founders of Twitter and Medium, Heroku’s ex-CEO, and leading VCs like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, and Lead Edge Capital, Sanity is at the epicenter of the modern digital product development stack.

You can only build a great company with a great culture. Read about our values and join us in building a diverse and inclusive team.

Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.