Description

As a Staff Product Designer for Voice, you will lead the design vision across all Voice products, collaborating with teams to shape product strategy while mentoring fellow designers and influencing design culture.

Requirements

• •Extensive experience as a senior or staff-level product designer in B2B and/or complex consumer products
• •Proven ownership of large, multi-surface product areas or portfolios
• •Experience influencing product strategy through design
• •Exceptional interaction design and UX judgment
• •Strong ability to design systems
• •Experience designing for complex workflows, real-time or collaborative environments
• •Comfortable working with senior product, engineering, and research leaders
• •Ability to articulate design decisions clearly and persuasively
• •Trusted partner who elevates cross-functional thinking
• •Founder-like mentality: ownership, curiosity, and bias toward action
• •Comfortable with ambiguity and shaping direction
• •Passion for mentoring and growing others without formal authority

Tasks

• •Own the end-to-end design vision for all Voice products
• •Ensure coherence, quality, and consistency across experiences
• •Translate product and business strategy into a compelling experience vision
• •Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Research to influence the roadmap
• •Use design as a strategic tool to frame problems and guide decision-making
• •Balance short-term delivery with long-term experience architecture
• •Lead hands-on design work on complex, high-impact problems
• •Design for real-time, multi-speaker, multi-device scenarios
• •Ensure high craft across interaction design and experience quality
• •Mentor and coach other designers on the Voice team
• •Raise the bar for design critique and feedback
• •Help the team grow in confidence and autonomy
• •Contribute to evolving DeepL’s design standards and principles
• •Advocate for design-led product development across disciplines
• •Establish Voice as a benchmark for design excellence

Benefits