From e0155db4b4afe5fde401c5cd7ee22c86dcbcef81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noah Talerman <47070608+noahtalerman@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:21:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] New role: Product Designer (#31275)

Co-authored-by: Sam Pfluger <108141731+Sampfluger88@users.noreply.github.com>
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 handbook/company/open-positions.yml | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/handbook/company/open-positions.yml b/handbook/company/open-positions.yml
index f8167ad950..a2e0d78449 100644
--- a/handbook/company/open-positions.yml
+++ b/handbook/company/open-positions.yml
@@ -210,3 +210,30 @@
       - ➕ Bonus: Direct experience with Fleet, MDM, osquery or SQL query writing, and working with Client Platform Engineering, SRE, or Security Engineering teams.
 
 
+- jobTitle: 🦢 Product Designer
+  department: Product Design
+  hiringManagerName: Noah Talerman
+  hiringManagerLinkedInUrl: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-talerman/
+  hiringManagerGithubUsername: noahtalerman
+  onTargetEarnings: '$125,000 - $160,000'
+  responsibilities: |
+    - 🧭 Prioritize work across competing customer needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
+    - 🎯 Own the full product development lifecycle for your product group—from identifying problems to defining scope, designing solutions, and writing specs.
+    - 📣 Design consistent interactions across the Fleet user experience, including API, CLI, and YAML.
+    - 🔎 Break down large ideas into shippable iterations and clearly communicate tradeoffs.
+    - 👥 Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to unblock work and ensure delivery.
+  experience: |
+    - 💭 3 - 5 years of experience as a Product Designer, Product Manager, or Software Engineer.
+    - 🧠 Strong product sense—you’re comfortable saying no, scoping down, and sequencing work for impact.
+    - 🦉 Comfortable owning both the "why" and the "how"—from defining the problem to scoping and designing the solution.
+    - 💖 Proficient in visual design and wireframing tools (we use Figma).
+    - ✍️ Experienced in writing clear, concise product specs for engineering teams.
+    - 🧑‍🔬 Understand developer-first automation workflows, including API, CLI, and Git experiences.
+    - 📖 Maintain a design system that enables speed for designers and engineers.
+    - 🤝 Collaboration: You work best in a participatory, team-based environment.
+    - 🚀 Prototype-first: You embrace speed and failure as we iterate towards the right solution. You have hands-on experience in creating low and high-fidelity prototypes. You’re comfortable accepting suboptimal designs in favor of iteration.
+    - 🧬 Simplicity: You love complex questions and use your work to simplify that complexity for users.
+    - 🟣 Openness: You are flexible and open to new ideas and ways of working.
+    - ✍️ Experience designing API/CLI experiences for developers or willingness to learn.
+    - ➕ Bonus: YB2B SaaS background
+