Staff Growth Designer

As a Staff Growth Designer at Harness, you’ll design experiences that accelerate adoption, retention, and expansion across the customer journey. You’ll uncover where users lose momentum, design moments that re-engage them, and apply behavioral design principles to shape motivation, ability, and triggers. Every interaction should help users progress toward value naturally and intuitively.

This role blends high-craft design with disciplined experimentation. You’ll design and validate flows that feel intuitive and connected, using interaction, motion, and transitions to guide users seamlessly across states and surfaces. You’ll partner closely with Product, Growth Marketing, and Engineering to uncover friction, form hypotheses, and translate behavioral insights into experiences that are fluid, purposeful, and outcome-driven.

• Design for impact: Create experiences that improve activation, retention, and expansion across key journeys
  
• Experiment and learn: Design, launch, and analyze A/B and multivariate tests to validate ideas and accelerate learning
  
• Collaborate across teams: Partner with Product, Growth, and Engineering to prioritize and deliver work that aligns user value with business outcomes
  
• Use data with intent: Define success metrics with analytics partners and translate findings into actionable design decisions
  
• Prototype rapidly: Build interactive prototypes and production-ready designs that bring growth ideas to life
  
• Enhance onboarding: Identify and remove friction in setup and education, ensuring users experience value early and often
  
• Drive Crossflow: Design cohesive transitions that reveal how our products work together and help users realize the full value of the platform.
  
• Scale design learning: Capture insights, build playbooks, and share patterns that help the broader team design for growth

• 4+ years in growth design within SaaS or technology environments
  
• Proven ability to design and iterate based on experimentation and user behavior
  
• Strong understanding of growth funnels, behavioral design, and motivation frameworks such as the Fogg Behavior Model
  
• Skilled in Figma and rapid prototyping tools
  
• Experience with analytics and experimentation platforms like Mixpanel, Amplitude, or FullStory
  
• Strong communicator who connects design intent to measurable outcomes
  
• Experience collaborating across Product, Growth, and Marketing to drive adoption and retention
  
• Experience with developer tools, CI/CD, or AI-driven platforms

• Remote from within the U.S or Hybrid from one of our offices in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, or Dallas

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Flexible work schedule
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
• Monthly internet reimbursement

The anticipated base salary range for this position is between $170,00 and $202000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.  The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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