Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Product Designer role sits in the heart of modern B2B SaaS, where design quality directly shapes adoption, retention, and day to day usefulness. The remit points to knowledge work software with enterprise complexity, including permissions, integrations, and administrative setup, which are defining constraints for many scaled SaaS products. It is also a domain where research, data, and product intuition need to be reconciled into clear workflows that teams can trust.
For a SaaS design career, the value is in operating across the full product loop rather than staying in a narrow delivery lane. End to end ownership from concept to launch builds fluency in how roadmap decisions, engineering constraints, and customer feedback translate into shippable experiences. Work on design systems and component libraries also develops the kind of scalable craft that becomes increasingly important as product surfaces multiply and consistency turns into a growth lever.
This role tends to fit designers who enjoy ambiguous problem spaces and can move between exploratory research and precise interaction design. It suits someone comfortable collaborating tightly with product and engineering, and who wants to spend meaningful time on complex B2B workflows instead of consumer style interfaces. The hybrid Bay Area setup signals a preference for in person iteration and cross functional alignment.
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 seeking an experienced Product Designer to help define the future of work. You'll collaborate closely with PMs, engineers, and cross-functional partners to ship category-defining products that knowledge workers rely on daily to get their jobs done.
As a Product Designer, you'll join an experienced, tight-knit, and collaborative team that combines research, data, and intuition into user-centered design. You'll have an outsized impact on products used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries, shaping the system of intelligence for every company in the world.
You will:
- Drive end-to-end product design owning major features from concept to launch, conducting user research to understand customer needs and translating insights into solutions that solve real problems for knowledge workers
- Ship high-quality experiences rapidly prototyping ideas to assess viability, designing detailed flows and interactions, and partnering closely with engineers to build, iterate, and launch with exceptional craft
- Create comprehensive design deliverables producing specs, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes that clearly communicate design intent and enable smooth handoff to engineering
- Design complex B2B workflows solving sophisticated problems around data management, permissions, integrations, and enterprise setup while maintaining simplicity and usability
- Strengthen design foundations contributing to Glean's design system and component library, ensuring consistency and scalability across the product suite
- Shape product strategy partnering with PMs to influence roadmaps, using data and research to advocate for user needs and identify opportunities for innovation
- Elevate team excellence sharing work regularly with designers and cross-functional teams, incorporating feedback effectively, and upholding high standards for design quality
About you:
- Experience: 5+ years in product design, shipping software in close collaboration with product, engineering, and marketing teams
- B2B expertise: Proven experience designing enterprise products with focus on complex workflows, administrative tools, and setup experiences
- Design craft: Ability to create polished, high-fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes using tools like Figma, with meticulous attention to detail
- Technical fluency: Understanding of technical concepts with bonus points for working knowledge of code, AI systems, APIs, and databases
- Systems thinking: Ability to navigate tradeoffs and constraints while going deep on details through rapid iteration, thinking holistically about user journeys
- Communication: Strong written, verbal, and storytelling skills to articulate design rationale and build alignment across the company
- Ownership mindset: Thrives in ambiguity, independently prioritizes based on user needs and business goals, and drives product ideas forward with conviction
Location:
This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Palo Alto or San Francisco office)
Compensation & Benefits:
The standard base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $200,000 annually. 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 offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage, generous time-off policy, and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join, you'll receive a home office improvement stipend, as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events, and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.
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.
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