design
Posted Nov 26, 2025Lead Product Designer, Core
at bubble
Nyc, United StatesHybrid
android$10,000
Responsibilities
- Champion simplicity, clarity, and ease of use so that Bubble’s most advanced tools feel intuitive and approachable to builders of all backgrounds.
- - Own the end-to-end design process for new and existing features—from research and ideation through high-fidelity design, validation, and launch—crafting cohesive, discoverable, and efficient experiences across Bubble’s building and editing tools.
- - Drive cross-functional alignment by partnering closely with PMs, engineers, and other designers to integrate new interaction patterns, workflows, and technologies in a way that feels natural, consistent, and predictable across the product.
- - Lead user research and usability testing for your product area, uncovering friction and opportunities, and turning insights into pragmatic design improvements that reduce cognitive load, improve learnability, and help users build faster with fewer mistakes.
Requirements
- Our goal is to improve the ease of use of our visual development editor so that anyone can succeed at building applications on the Bubble platform while also enhancing and extending it to support additional use cases.
- - Play a central role in extending Bubble’s AI capabilities into the visual editor, designing hybrid AI-and-visual workflows that keep builders firmly in control while making complex tasks feel faster, smarter, and easier.
- experience in Product Design or related fields (UX, Information Architecture, Interaction Design,
- - Proven ability to mentor and grow associate designers, raising the bar on usability, interaction quality, and user-centered decision-making while fostering a culture of thoughtful critique and continuous improvement.
- - Excellent communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to frame UX tradeoffs, present complex design decisions to executives and cross-disciplinary teams, and advocate for user needs in a way that aligns with business goals.
- - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, or a related field. Portfolio
Experience
- Qualifications We Need - 10+ years of
Benefits
- What You Will Be Doing - Serve as the Lead Product Designer for Bubble’s core platform visual editor, shaping the design vision and execution for the foundational capabilities that power our entire builder experience.
- - You must provide a password to your portfolio at application time Compensation: We offer competitive compensation aligned to tier one markets.
- Our estimated salary for this role at Bubble ranges from $191,000 to $248,000.
- Actual pay is determined by multiple factors such as skills, qualifications, experience and market demand.
- We prefer hiring within commuting distance of our Manhattan office because we value getting together in person regularly — folks who come in enjoy catered lunches, team events, and other perks.
- Benefits: In addition to cash and equity compensation, Bubble offers a robust
- benefits package equating to roughly twenty thousand in additional annual compensation: Our
- benefits include, but are not limited to: - Comprehensive health coverage - 401(k) matching - Wellness and work enablement stipends - Generous PTO - A Sabbatical program Join us! Let’s democratize access to technology together! If this sounds like you, apply! If you don’t meet all of the
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Additional details
- About The Role: At Bubble, we’re redefining how software gets made—and that transformation starts in our visual editor.
- We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer to own the evolution of the core Bubble application building interfaces where makers bring their ideas to life.
- This is a high-impact role for a designer who thinks end-to-end about complex systems and workflows, and who thrives on turning that complexity into powerful, intuitive tools.
- Your Achievements - Led the conception and launch of core end-user facing product features that improved usability across multiple product surfaces, setting a clear direction for user-centric, responsible, and easy-to-learn design.
- - Experienced in tackling complex problem spaces and UX challenges with intuitive solutions.
- - Incorporated rapid prototyping, experimentation, and enabling technologies into the design process to validate usability quickly and ship intuitive, high-quality solutions.
- - Mentored and developed associate designers, elevating the craft of product design with a focus on clear interaction patterns, accessibility, and creating experiences that feel simple—even when the underlying systems are complex.
- - Built strong cross-team partnerships that enabled cohesive, end-to-end user journeys, ensuring that new features and touchpoints felt consistent, predictable, and easy to navigate across the platform.
- Experience Architecture), including work on complex, multi-surface products where usability and clarity were core outcomes. - A track record of designing and shipping high-impact end-user facing features on mature platforms, with a portfolio that demonstrates system-level thinking, end-to-end ownership, and measurable improvements to ease of use and overall experience quality.
- - Strong capability in orchestrating design workstreams across multiple product areas, collaborating with and influencing cross-functional partners, and thoughtfully integrating new interaction patterns and technologies into existing workflows without adding friction.