About the role

Senior Staff Product Designer shaping Apollo GraphQL’s developer tools and AI-agent experiences. Leading coherent product journeys, design standards, and high-leverage user-centered initiatives.

Responsibilities

Assess Apollo's product surfaces end to end and identify where design effort creates the most leverage
Drive design work from idea through execution
Lead modernization of core developer experiences
Turn disconnected features into coherent user journeys
Partner with engineering as a peer and influence what gets built
Set design and craft standards adopted by designers, product managers, and engineers
Contribute patterns to Apollo's design system
Determine when usability testing is needed
Connect design work to business metrics such as developer activation, time-to-first-successful-API-call, and support cost
Help shape developer experience, onboarding, design system, and AI-agent interfaces

12+ years designing software, with a portfolio of shipped work
Experience designing technically complex products for technical users, including developer tools, infrastructure, data, security, identity, or APIs
Track record of identifying high-leverage problems and designing end-to-end solutions
Strong visual design and craft skills
Ability to operate independently and turn ambiguous problems into a cohesive vision
Track record of proactively surfacing problems and building alignment with engineering
Shipped developer-focused experiences, API tooling, or agent experiences preferred
Engineering or developer background, or production code contributions preferred
Comfortable moving between high-altitude thinking and interaction/craft details preferred
Experience working within and outside design systems preferred
Familiarity with AI design tools preferred
Authorization to work in the U.S. or Canada