Lead Product Designer, Developer Platform

Available Locations: Hybrid - Austin, San Francisco, Seattle, New York. Two days in the office.
About our team
The Product Experience team is a diverse group of creative people that love to learn, collaborate, solve large-scale problems, and grow together. We're looking for a curious, user-focused, and action-oriented Lead Product Designer that is driven to design the best product experiences for the Developer Platform.
The Developer Platform is a part of the Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) organization where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers.
Your impact
As a Lead Product Designer, you will work closely with other designers, engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to drive the best end-to-end experiences for developers. Your work will impact the developer experiences of a growing platform of products including Cloudflare Pages, Workers, R2, Databases, Media, AI, and more. While this is not a managerial role with direct reports, we expect our Lead Product Designers to lead by example and coach the team into doing their best work.
If you're a systems-thinking Lead Product Designer who's excited to work on significant, meaningful, and complex problems with real-world impact, come help us make the Internet better! We'd love to hear from you.
What you'll do

• Lead end-to-end developer experience design, simplifying complex problems through research, sketching, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Drive improvements across multiple touch points of the developer experience such as the product dashboard, CLI, documentation, playground, and more.
• Partner with product managers and engineering to navigate technical trade-offs, contributing to both near-term and long-term product vision.
• Collaborate with other designers on shared patterns, product vision, and design goals, while refining team culture and exporting best practices across the organization.
• Facilitate workshops, design reviews, and cross-departmental initiatives, identifying shared dependencies that connect products and services.
• Drive adoption of new design tools and methodologies, utilizing data to inform accessible service and interface designs, from research to final product.
• Collaborate with designers and leaders across the company to elevate the overall Cloudflare user experience.
• Mentor and coach designers, contributing to team growth and scaling design practices through documentation and decision-making frameworks.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Strong user experience and visual design skills, this is an end-to-end UX to UI role
• Proven track record of producing high-quality end-to-end deliverables
• 10+ years working in professional UX or product design roles
• A portfolio or comprehensive presentation of relevant user experience and visual design work is required
• Clearly and effectively formulate direction and strategy for the team to make decisions
• Deep empathy with, and understanding of users' needs
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Technical expertise and an understanding of designing for developer workflows is a plus
• Previous leadership experience is a plus

Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $192,000 - $234,000.
• For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $214,000 - $262,000.
• For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $225,000 - $275,000

Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave