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At Intuit, our mission is to Power Prosperity for consumers and small businesses around the world. We are looking for a Sr. Staff Product Designer who builds AI-native experiences hands-on and scales them into real customer benefit for millions of TurboTax customers.
You will shape how we design, prototype and ship AI-centric experiences at the system level: the patterns, tooling, evaluation methods and design-system contributions that let many teams deliver great AI experiences, not just one. You will hold a high bar for quality at scale, and partner closely with engineering, design and AI science.
You will work in Intuit's Consumer Group on our flagship product, TurboTax, as part of a design team with a relentless focus on simplifying the complex so customers can file not just with confidence, but with a delightful experience.
Responsibilities
Build AI-native, hands-on
- Design and prototype AI-powered experiences directly, using code-assist tools, prompting and skills, and use working prototypes to explore ideas and evaluate them with customers.
- Define what "great" looks like for AI behavior: set expectations, scenarios and quality criteria with engineering and AI science, and help evaluate outputs against them.
- Design experiences that make AI features intuitive, transparent and trustworthy for a diverse range of users.
Deliver customer benefit at scale
- Inform the strategy and direction of our AI-acceleration initiatives through design thinking, customer experimentation and data.
- Drive team outcomes: identify customer problems, define requirements and deliver end-to-end experiences across web and mobile with velocity and rigor, balancing long-term considerations with continuous shipping.
Lead at the system level
- Deliver frameworks, principles and designs that accelerate large initiatives and align stakeholders across teams and business units.
- Contribute significantly to the Intuit design system and tools, extending them for AI-native patterns (conversational, generative, agentic UI) that raise the floor for every team.
Elevate the craft and the organization
- Act as a subject matter expert and advocate, using strong narratives to drive adoption of AI-accelerated tools and processes among designers, developers and partners.
- Mentor others and lead through facilitation, so people learn from you and want to work with you.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience in product design (interaction, product or service design, or a related field), with a strong online portfolio.
- Track record of shipping quality visual and interaction design for complex end-to-end flows across multiple teams.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools and hands-on prototyping with code-assist tools into your workflow to improve quality, speed or exploration, plus a clear point of view on how AI will change the craft of product building.
- Practical design systems experience: significant contribution to an enterprise-grade design system or tools, with examples of advocacy that drove breakthrough adoption.
- Strong user-centered design practice (design thinking, storytelling, concept visualization, customer research) with engineering, product and research partners, and a proven ability to set a vision and inspire others.
- Highly collaborative: takes in multiple points of view, synthesizes decisions and communicates outcomes across the organization.
- Mastery of design tools, agile development methods and accessibility requirements, in both design and code.
- Skill at simplifying complex ideas and delivering within technology constraints, with confidence managing ambiguity.
Bonus: content engineering and evaluation
Content quality is how AI-driven experiences succeed or fail, so we value designers who can define and measure "great", not only design it. Any of these strengthens your application:
- You are as comfortable in a prompt file or a rubric as you are in Figma. When an AI output misses the mark, you can tell whether the fault is in the prompt, the system or the input, and you know how to fix it.
- Experience writing prompts and skills, and creating rubrics, evaluation criteria and golden datasets to score outputs by hand or with automated evaluation.
- Working knowledge of how generative systems use context: instructions, retrieved knowledge, skills, tools and memory.
- Foundations in information architecture, taxonomy and content modeling, plus comfort with JSON, YAML and version control.
- Knowledge of conversation design and narrative techniques for single- and multi-page flows.
- Experience with A/B testing, and judgment about when an experience should use generated content and when it should use static content.
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs. Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.
The expected base pay range for this position is:
-
San Diego $189,500 - $256,000
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Mountain View, CA $203,000 - $274,500
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Oakland, CA $203,000 - $274,500
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San Francisco Howard Street, CA $203,000 - $274,500
Overview
At Intuit, our mission is to Power Prosperity for consumers and small businesses around the world. We are looking for a Sr. Staff Product Designer who builds AI-native experiences hands-on and scales them into real customer benefit for millions of TurboTax customers.
You will shape how we design, prototype and ship AI-centric experiences at the system level: the patterns, tooling, evaluation methods and design-system contributions that let many teams deliver great AI experiences, not just one. You will hold a high bar for quality at scale, and partner closely with engineering, design and AI science.
You will work in Intuit's Consumer Group on our flagship product, TurboTax, as part of a design team with a relentless focus on simplifying the complex so customers can file not just with confidence, but with a delightful experience.
Responsibilities
Build AI-native, hands-on
- Design and prototype AI-powered experiences directly, using code-assist tools, prompting and skills, and use working prototypes to explore ideas and evaluate them with customers.
- Define what "great" looks like for AI behavior: set expectations, scenarios and quality criteria with engineering and AI science, and help evaluate outputs against them.
- Design experiences that make AI features intuitive, transparent and trustworthy for a diverse range of users.
Deliver customer benefit at scale
- Inform the strategy and direction of our AI-acceleration initiatives through design thinking, customer experimentation and data.
- Drive team outcomes: identify customer problems, define requirements and deliver end-to-end experiences across web and mobile with velocity and rigor, balancing long-term considerations with continuous shipping.
Lead at the system level
- Deliver frameworks, principles and designs that accelerate large initiatives and align stakeholders across teams and business units.
- Contribute significantly to the Intuit design system and tools, extending them for AI-native patterns (conversational, generative, agentic UI) that raise the floor for every team.
Elevate the craft and the organization
- Act as a subject matter expert and advocate, using strong narratives to drive adoption of AI-accelerated tools and processes among designers, developers and partners.
- Mentor others and lead through facilitation, so people learn from you and want to work with you.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience in product design (interaction, product or service design, or a related field), with a strong online portfolio.
- Track record of shipping quality visual and interaction design for complex end-to-end flows across multiple teams.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools and hands-on prototyping with code-assist tools into your workflow to improve quality, speed or exploration, plus a clear point of view on how AI will change the craft of product building.
- Practical design systems experience: significant contribution to an enterprise-grade design system or tools, with examples of advocacy that drove breakthrough adoption.
- Strong user-centered design practice (design thinking, storytelling, concept visualization, customer research) with engineering, product and research partners, and a proven ability to set a vision and inspire others.
- Highly collaborative: takes in multiple points of view, synthesizes decisions and communicates outcomes across the organization.
- Mastery of design tools, agile development methods and accessibility requirements, in both design and code.
- Skill at simplifying complex ideas and delivering within technology constraints, with confidence managing ambiguity.
Bonus: content engineering and evaluation
Content quality is how AI-driven experiences succeed or fail, so we value designers who can define and measure "great", not only design it. Any of these strengthens your application:
- You are as comfortable in a prompt file or a rubric as you are in Figma. When an AI output misses the mark, you can tell whether the fault is in the prompt, the system or the input, and you know how to fix it.
- Experience writing prompts and skills, and creating rubrics, evaluation criteria and golden datasets to score outputs by hand or with automated evaluation.
- Working knowledge of how generative systems use context: instructions, retrieved knowledge, skills, tools and memory.
- Foundations in information architecture, taxonomy and content modeling, plus comfort with JSON, YAML and version control.
- Knowledge of conversation design and narrative techniques for single- and multi-page flows.
- Experience with A/B testing, and judgment about when an experience should use generated content and when it should use static content.
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs. Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.
The expected base pay range for this position is:
-
San Diego $189,500 - $256,000
-
Mountain View, CA $203,000 - $274,500
-
Oakland, CA $203,000 - $274,500
-
San Francisco Howard Street, CA $203,000 - $274,500
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Align your portfolio to specialty occupation criteria
USCIS scrutinizes whether Senior Staff Product Designer roles require a specific theoretical and practical application of a body of knowledge. Frame your portfolio around systems-level design decisions tied directly to your degree discipline, not general creative output.
Check employer LCA filings before applying
Use Migrate Mate to filter Senior Staff Product Designer openings by verified DOL Labor Condition Application history, so you're targeting employers who have actually filed for this role, not just listed it as visa-eligible in job descriptions.
Verify your wage level before the offer stage
Run the OFLC Wage Search using the SOC code for User Experience Designers in your target metro area. If an offer comes in below Level III or IV, your employer's LCA will reflect that discrepancy and may trigger USCIS scrutiny during adjudication.
Document cross-functional scope for your I-129
Staff-level design roles that span product, engineering, and research are sometimes challenged as insufficiently specialized. Build a role justification letter with your employer that maps each key responsibility to a specific design or HCI discipline before filing.
Time your application around premium processing windows
USCIS offers premium processing for H-1B petitions, currently adjudicated within 15 business days. For Senior Staff roles with negotiated start dates, confirm your employer will elect premium processing before signing an offer with a hard start deadline.
Identify cap-exempt employers for faster paths
Universities, nonprofit research organizations, and certain government-affiliated institutions are cap-exempt, meaning they can file your H-1B year-round without lottery selection. Senior Staff Product Designer roles exist at these organizations, particularly in health tech and edtech.
H-1B Visa Senior Staff Product Designer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior Staff Product Designer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS requires that the position normally requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field such as industrial design, human-computer interaction, or a closely related discipline. Staff-level roles with strategic scope and demonstrated degree requirements in job postings are well-positioned, but your employer's petition must clearly tie the role's duties to that specific body of knowledge.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Senior Staff Product Designer roles?
Large technology companies, enterprise software firms, fintech companies, and healthcare technology organizations are the most consistent H-1B sponsors for senior design roles. Browse open Senior Staff Product Designer positions on Migrate Mate, which surfaces employers with verified DOL LCA filing history so you can focus your search on companies that have actively sponsored this role.
How does the prevailing wage requirement affect Senior Staff Product Designer offers?
Your employer must certify through the DOL that your offered wage meets the prevailing wage for your occupation and work location. For Senior Staff roles, that typically corresponds to a Level III or Level IV wage under DOL's four-tier system. You can verify the applicable wage yourself using the OFLC Wage Search before accepting an offer, which helps you negotiate from an informed position.
Can I change employers while on H-1B status as a Senior Staff Product Designer?
Yes. Under H-1B portability rules, you can start working for a new employer as soon as they file a new H-1B petition on your behalf, provided your current status is valid and your prior petition was approved. You don't need to wait for the new petition to be adjudicated, but your new employer must file before your current authorized period ends.
Does the O*NET classification for my role affect my H-1B petition?
It can. USCIS and DOL both reference O*NET occupational data when evaluating whether a role qualifies as a specialty occupation and what prevailing wage applies. The O*NET profile for User Experience Designers specifies a job zone and typical education level that supports H-1B eligibility for Senior Staff Product Designer roles, and citing it in your petition documentation can strengthen the specialty occupation argument.