Staff Product Designer, Growth

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Product Designer, Growth based in Brazil.

We are looking for an experienced and strategic Staff Product Designer to lead growth-focused design initiatives and shape engaging, high-performing product experiences. In this role, you will drive design excellence across the user journey, focusing on improving activation, engagement, retention, and monetization. Working closely with product managers, engineers, data analysts, and marketing teams, you will turn business challenges and user insights into impactful design solutions. You will leverage experimentation, behavioral analytics, and AI-powered tools to validate ideas and continuously optimize the product experience. Beyond hands-on design, you will influence design strategy, strengthen design systems, and mentor other designers. This is an opportunity to take a leading role in a fast-paced, globally distributed environment where creativity, collaboration, and measurable results are equally valued.

Accountabilities

• Growth Design Strategy: Lead and deliver product design initiatives across multiple growth projects, ensuring alignment between user needs, business objectives, and key performance indicators such as activation, engagement, retention, and monetization.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product managers, software engineers, data analysts, and marketing teams to identify opportunities, define growth hypotheses, and deliver cohesive, high-quality user experiences.
• Design System Development: Collaborate with design system stakeholders to evolve and improve design standards, promoting consistency while addressing specific growth requirements through thoughtful visual design, animations, transitions, and micro-interactions.
• Prototyping and Experimentation: Rapidly create designs and interactive prototypes, test new concepts, and leverage A/B testing frameworks and product analytics to validate hypotheses and optimize user journeys.
• User Experience Optimization: Identify friction points, conversion barriers, and usability challenges across the product experience, developing solutions that improve customer journeys and support business growth.
• Data-Driven Design Decisions: Combine qualitative research, quantitative insights, and behavioral analytics to inform design recommendations and measure the impact of implemented solutions.
• AI-Driven Innovation: Explore emerging AI technologies and incorporate AI-powered capabilities into design workflows and product experiences, improving efficiency and creating new opportunities for user engagement.
• Design Leadership and Mentorship: Mentor Product Designers, provide constructive feedback, facilitate design practice sessions, and establish standards that strengthen design quality and team effectiveness.
• Strategic Communication: Present design concepts, communicate complex ideas through compelling storytelling, and facilitate discussions that create alignment among stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• End-to-End Design Ownership: Work closely with development teams throughout the entire product lifecycle, from ideation and discovery to implementation and design quality assurance, helping resolve blockers and ensuring successful delivery.

Requirements

• Professional Experience: Between 5 and 7 years of professional Product Design experience, including at least 2 years operating at Staff Product Designer level or in an equivalent senior leadership capacity, with demonstrated experience in growth-focused design initiatives.
• Product Design Expertise: Strong UI, UX, and visual design capabilities, with a proven ability to create intuitive, functional, and engaging digital experiences. Experience with advanced prototyping techniques, including progressive disclosure, is highly valued.
• Growth and Experimentation: Deep understanding of growth principles, product metrics, user behavior analytics, and A/B testing methodologies. Experience with analytics platforms such as Amplitude, Mixpanel, or similar tools is expected.
• Portfolio and Measurable Results: A strong portfolio demonstrating successful experimentation and measurable business outcomes, ideally including onboarding experiences, referral or virality features, pricing pages, and subscription models.
• Data-Informed Design: Ability to combine qualitative and quantitative research, experimentation, and product insights to make evidence-based design decisions and demonstrate measurable impact.
• AI and Emerging Technologies: Curiosity about artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, with practical experience using AI tools in design workflows or designing AI-assisted and AI-powered product experiences. Portfolio examples demonstrating AI-related projects or experimentation are highly valued.
• Strategic Thinking and Adaptability: Ability to navigate ambiguity, identify opport