Senior Product Designer

We’re looking for strong design craft, sharp product thinking, and the ability to work closely with Product Management and Engineering through ambiguity. We work in small cross-functional teams, where designers play a central role in shaping solutions before they move into build and stay closely involved as the work comes to life. You’ll be a key part of turning meaningful product opportunities into clear, well-crafted experiences for players, organizers, and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the shaping phase for meaningful product opportunities across player, organizer, and internal team experiences

• Turn clearly framed opportunities into thoughtful, well-crafted solutions that are valuable, usable, viable, and feasible

• Conduct user research and translate insights into design decisions

• Work closely with product managers and tech leads to explore ideas, pressure test tradeoffs, and reduce risk before work moves into build

• Create flows, prototypes, and polished designs that bring clarity to both the user experience and the scope of work

• Think through edge cases, operational realities, and end-to-end journeys, not just primary happy paths

• Help define execution-ready scope by contributing clear design artifacts, detailed thinking, and well-written ticketsStay actively involved during build to answer questions, refine decisions, and protect product quality as details emerge

• Contribute to product quality more broadly by improving workflows, interaction patterns, and overall coherence across the experience

• Use AI tools and modern workflows to move faster, explore more possibilities, and improve the quality of your work

• Help raise the bar for design thinking, craft, and collaboration across the team

Requirements

• 5+ years of product design experience, with a track record of shipping high-quality digital products

• Strong product and interaction design skills

• High proficiency in Figma and modern prototyping and design tools

• Experience using AI tools in a practical way to improve how you think, work, and create

• Ability to take ambiguous problems and turn them into clear, focused solutions

• Strong judgment across user needs, business goals, and technical constraints

• Comfort working closely with engineers and product managers in a collaborative environment

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, especially in async settings

• A high level of curiosity, ownership, and personal accountability

• A growth mindset and a genuine willingness to keep learning

• Interest in innovation, experimentation, and improving the way product teams work

Benefits

• Paid Time Off (PTO): Eligible after 60 days of continuous service.

• Paid Parental Leave: Up to 6 to 9 weeks, depending on role and eligibility. Eligibility begins after 12 months of continuous full-time service.

  • Birthing parents: Up to 9 weeks of paid leave.

  • Non-birthing parents: Up to 6 weeks of paid leave.

• Observed Holidays: Plei observes major U.S. federal holidays. For international team members, a local national holiday may be substituted in place of U.S. Independence Day.

• Remote Flexibility: We are a hybrid company, but this role is fully remote. You’ll have the flexibility to work from your location while staying connected across our global team.

• Free Plei Games: All employees get free access to Plei-organized pickup games in any of our regions.

• Team Connectivity: Even though we’re distributed, we make teamwork a priority through regular all-hands, collaboration across teams, and a connected working culture.