Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Product Designer role stands out in SaaS because it sits at the intersection of B2B workflow software and search/knowledge access—areas where product differentiation often comes from interaction quality, information architecture, and trust in results. The remit spans major features and a design system, signalling a product with enough surface area and usage frequency to warrant strong design consistency and repeated iteration across teams.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work offers durable exposure to end-to-end product design in an environment where research inputs, data, and engineering constraints must converge into shippable experiences. Owning features through delivery and partnering closely with PM and engineering maps well to how modern SaaS products evolve: incremental releases, measurable outcomes, and continuous refinement. Experience contributing to a component library also translates across SaaS companies that rely on scalable UI patterns to move faster without fragmenting the product.
This role is best suited to a designer who prefers broad product ownership over narrow specialization, and who is comfortable synthesizing feedback from multiple functions into clear design decisions. It fits someone who enjoys balancing ambiguity with craft, and who wants their design work to influence both new capabilities and the underlying system that supports ongoing SaaS product development.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Role:
Glean is looking for an experienced Product Designer to help define the future of work. You’ll collaborate closely with PMs, engineers, customer success advocates, and marketers, to ship category-defining product that’s used daily by customers to do their work.
As a Product Designer, you’ll be joining an experienced, tight-knit, and collaborative group of folks who love combining research, data, intuition, and best practices into a user-centered design process. You’ll have an outsized impact on the product, used across hundreds of companies across many different industries, and an incredible opportunity to shape the system of intelligence for every company in the world.
You will:
- Own and drive the complete product design lifecycle of major features from end to end, doing user research or partnering with others to understand customer needs and translating those insights into products and features that solve real problems for knowledge workers in organizations.
- Prototype ideas quickly to assess viability, design detailed flows and interactions to turn your features into a reality, and partner closely with engineers to build, iterate on, and ship those ideas.
- Produce whatever artifacts are needed - specs, sketches, wireframes, mocks, prototypes, etc. to take UI ideas into production.
- Contribute to Glean’s design system and component library
- Contribute to design team processes and share work regularly with designers, cross-functional teams, leadership, and the company
- Uphold high standards for design and product quality.
- Partner with product managers to shape roadmaps.
About you:
- Minimum of 5+ years prior generalist product design experience in an organization that has shipped software to users, working closely with product, engineering, and product marketing teammates to develop strategy and rationale for features.
- Experience designing for B2B product
- Ability to design polished, high-fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes of your solutions in design tools like Figma.
- Ability to understand technical concepts (bonus if you have working knowledge of LLMs, code, APIs, databases, etc.)
- Experience collaborating with different disciplines and incorporating feedback into your work.
- Strong written, verbal, and storytelling skills to help people across the company understand the rationale behind your designs.
- Thrive in ambiguity and can independently prioritize work based on user needs and business goals, and take responsibility to drive product ideas forward
- Ability to think systematically about problems given tradeoffs and constraints, and go deep on details through continual rapid iteration.
- A learning and growth mindset with an ability to self-start on problems, a willingness to own problems, and a desire to make things better.
Compensation & Benefits:
Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.
We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.
