Senior Product Designer

Planet DDS is hiring a Senior Product Designer to serve as an independent contributor owning complex design challenges from discovery through delivery across the company’s SaaS product portfolio. The role applies customer and market insights to create cohesive, scalable product experiences while balancing usability, technical feasibility, and business priorities.

Responsibilities

• Own design for complex features or product modules end to end, including interaction models, workflows, and visual execution.
• Convert customer research, data, and business goals into user-centered design solutions.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineers to define problems, explore solution options, and make informed trade-offs across design, technical, and business constraints.
• Lead and participate in user research activities and usability testing, then synthesize findings to improve adoption, satisfaction, and consistency.
• Produce high-fidelity designs and prototypes in Figma, leveraging and contributing to the design system to maintain quality and scalability.
• Share design concepts and rationale with stakeholders, clearly explaining the reasoning and building alignment across teams.
• Mentor and support junior designers through feedback, critique, and guidance on process and craft.
• Help drive the evolution of design standards, patterns, and best practices throughout the product organization.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years of product design experience, ideally in SaaS, B2B, or complex software environments.
• Ability to independently lead moderately to highly complex design initiatives with ambiguous requirements.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design thinking, systems-level problem solving, and high-quality execution.
• Deep understanding of UX patterns, accessibility standards, responsive design, and interaction design principles.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams and navigating trade-offs to deliver customer and business value.
• Excellent communication skills to explain design decisions to designers, engineers, product leaders, and executives.
• Comfort operating in fast-paced, agile environments with changing priorities.
• Ability to connect design decisions to measurable business outcomes such as adoption, usability, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

Location

Remote

Salary

USD 101,000 - 135,000 per year

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Telehealth
• 401(k) and 401(k) match
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• FTO or Vacation
• Sick Time
• Employee Well-Being program
• 11 paid holidays
• Volunteer Time Off
• Employee Referral program
• Additional perk and voluntary benefit programs

Core Ideology (Planet DDS)

• Collaborative – Working independently and across teams to build scalable solutions that enable company growth.
• Empathetic – Educated on the experience of customers and invested in their success.
• Accountable – Ownership for the quality of work and pride in positive outcomes.
• Trustworthy – Operating with integrity and honest communication.
• Ambitious – Driven to make a long-term, positive impact on the lives of dental market leaders.

Tools

• Figma