Staff Product Designer-Design System

Company Information

Apollo.io is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Founded in 2015, the company is one of the fastest growing companies in SaaS, raising approximately $250 million to date and valued at $1.6 billion. Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 210 million B2B contacts and 35 million companies worldwide, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io turns prospects into customers. Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members.

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We’re hiring a Staff or Principal Product Designer to join Apollo’s Fabric Design System team. This is a high-impact role where your work will directly shape the foundation of Apollo's user experience, influencing our vision of becoming the all-in-one GTM platform. Designers on the Fabric team are pivotal in building and evolving the system that enables all other product teams to create seamless, consistent, and high-quality experiences efficiently. You’ll collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Researchers, Content Designers, and other Product Designers.

Responsibilities

• Partner with PMs, Engineers, and Analysts to identify churn drivers and friction points using user research and behavioral data.
• Design experiments and experiences that improve retention, cross-use case adoption, and depth of usage across Apollo’s surfaces.
• Elevate key moments in the user journey—especially empty, underutilized, and high-traffic states—through smart UX, education, and contextual guidance.
• Craft UX that supports self-serve activation and intelligent onboarding, leveraging AI and Apollo's Dynamic Activation Engine.
• Embed habit-forming, value-reinforcing patterns such as progress tracking, nudges, and personalized dashboards.
• Regularly interview users and test hypotheses to validate new designs and refine existing ones.
• Collaborate with the broader design org to maintain a cohesive experience and evolve Apollo’s design system.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience designing and shipping complex web-based products founded in data and customer insights.
• Expert design instincts & best practice knowledge to translate user problems, user goals, business objectives, and technical constraints into excellent product experiences to deliver quick turnarounds & shorten feedback loops.
• A self-starter that thrives while working in a fast-paced environment, working on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience creating and maintaining components across multiple product surfaces in Figma.
• A voracious learner, constantly trying to learn how to improve customer experience and drive core metrics. Continuously learns new industry standards, staying up to date with how to get the most out of modern design tools including Figma.
• Passion for typography and copywriting, with the ability to write simple, compelling microcopy to support UI design.