Staff Product Designer

At HackerRank, we help over 2,500 of the most prestigious logos across industries find, hire and upskill amazing developer talent using our SaaS-based Developer Skills Platform. We pioneered and continue to lead the developer skills market. At HackerRank, we are passionate about our mission to "**_Change the world to value skills over pedigree_**. This position is full-time and Remote within India.

As a Staff Product Designer, you'll lead projects of significant scope and complexity and serve as a leader within the design practice group. Your responsibilities will include working independently to identify problems and design innovative, high-quality solutions that resonate with users. You'll join a collaborative team focused on a core product experience, owning design throughout the product development lifecycle from ideation and conceptualization all the way through interaction and visual design.

At HackerRank, we believe the future is human _plus AI_. You'll blend a solid grasp of fundamental UI paradigms with innovative AI-powered capabilities. This role specifically focuses on the developer's experience while interacting with our Developer Environment (DevX), including how developers demonstrate competencies across multiple skills and content types. Experience working with developer environments and AI-powered code editors is a plus.

**What will you do**:

- Design and ship features that balance UI best practices within AI-powered experiences
- Work independently and strategically to identify problems worth solving and design solutions that users love
- Proactively research and prototype your ideas, including comfort in adopting new tools that shorten the time between concept and delivery
- Stay current on best-in-class developer experiences
- Work to improve systems around you, from contributing to design documentation and systems to adopting new tools that shorten the time between concept and delivery.
- Deeply care about the full user experience, from the moment they touch the product through related journeys
- Manage competing priorities and act on decisions in the face of ambiguity
- Help develop and refine best practices and methodologies for the design team, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.
- Mentor and guide designers around you to lift the overall bar for design at HackerRank

**You will thrive in this role, if**:

- As a Staff Product Designer at HackerRank, you're a catalyst for design excellence and a leader in our community.
- Your deep expertise in user experience enables you to tackle complex challenges, while your communication and leadership skills make you an invaluable asset to cross-functional teams.
- You have embraced the changing nature of Product Design, including introducing AI paradigms and tools, and you are committed to elevating everyone's game across the company.

**What you will also bring**:

- 5+ years of industry experience as a product designer
- A portfolio demonstrating excellent visual, UI, and interactive skills
- Comfortable with prototyping or coding your ideas. Experience working with AI-powered IDEs like Cursor or Bolt is a plus
- Excellent communication skills including spoken and written English
- Comfort working with ambiguous problems, independently or with multiple stakeholders, and the ability to balance existing design standards with new AI paradigms
- Proven ability to ship high-quality products in a self-directed manner

**Benefits & Perks**:
We have a full package of competitive benefits and perks which include:

- One-time home office set up stipend
- Monthly Remote Work Enablement Stipend
- Professional Development Reimbursement
- Wellbeing Benefits (Headspace, etc)
- Generous paid time off, paid leave for new parents, and flexible work hours
- Insurance for all employees (term life, personal accident, medical) along with medical insurance for their dependents
- Employee stock options, flexible work hours, and time off

**About HackerRank**:
HackerRank is a Y Combinator alumnus backed by tier-one Silicon Valley VCs with total funding of over $100 million. The HackerRank Developer Skills Platform is the standard for assessing developer skills for 2,500+ companies across industries and 24M+ developers around the world. Companies like LinkedIn, Stripe, and Peloton rely on HackerRank to objectively evaluate skills against millions of developers at every step of the hiring process, allowing teams to hire the best and reduce engineering time. Developers rely on HackerRank to turn their skills into great jobs. We're data-driven givers who take full ownership of our work and love delighting our customers

HackerRank is a proud equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. We provide equal opportunity to everyone for employment on the basis of individual performance and qualification. We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marita