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About the role
Wistia helps businesses grow with video, from hosting and a player built for marketing to analytics, webinars, and AI tools that make video easier to create and share.
We're hiring a Staff Product Design Lead for Hosting, Wistia's core product. Whether a video is uploaded, recorded in a webinar, or made with our AI creation tools, it's hosted in Wistia for everything that comes after. The hosting team oversees these interconnected customer needs from end-to-end:
Organize their library, so the right video is easy to find, manage, and control access to
Publish it through our player, embeds, and pages that bring video to their websites and audiences
Analyze how it performs, so they know what's working and what to do next
Nearly every Wistia customer relies on Hosting. As we expand into webinars, video creation, and agentic workflows, it remains the foundation of our Video Platform.
You'll be the design lead for Hosting and report to our VP of Product Design, working closely with Hosting's product and engineering leads to set strategy and decide what we build. You'll also stay hands-on, owning key projects yourself and contributing directly in code alongside your engineering partners on a small, senior, AI-native team. This is a leading individual contributor role with a high degree of autonomy and strategic influence.
What you'll do
Own the design work, end-to-end. Take ambiguous, high-impact problems from discovery to launch, hand in hand with your engineering partners. You'll prototype with whatever tools work best (lately, Claude Design and Wistia’s own internal Agent), create high-fidelity polish where needed whether in design assets or in code, and contribute changes directly (like front-end polish, quality fixes, and smaller features) with our in-house AI agent, Claude Code, or Cursor.
Lead design visions for Hosting. With your product and engineering leads, pick the customer problems and strategic bets worth exploring, then lead the work that makes possible futures tangible, from next-trimester ideas to multi-year north stars (like how organizing, publishing, and analyzing come together as one experience). Visions are one of the ways we stay ambitious, connect work that would otherwise ship as separate features, and decide what's worth pursuing (and what isn't).
Help shape Hosting's strategy. Our pillar leads drive product strategy, drawing on company themes, customer feedback, and market insight. You'll be a key voice in it, bringing design visions, research, and a deep understanding of how customers use Hosting, then help turn priorities into a roadmap that ships customer value quickly.
Raise the quality bar. Champion accessibility, performance, and consistency with our design system across the surfaces customers use most.
Help the team work at its best. Spot what's slowing us down, improve how design and engineering collaborate, and help your partners make the case for the people and resources Hosting needs.
What you'll bring
8+ years of product design experience, ideally with experience on B2B or SaaS products
A portfolio that shows you leading design across a whole product area, including evolving established products customers already depend on.
Experience as a design lead alongside product and engineering partners: shaping strategy and goals, making tradeoffs, and influencing well beyond your own projects
Strong systems thinking, so you can break large, tangled problems into clear, shippable steps
Hands-on experience building with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar), and comfort or openness to working in a codebase with branches, pull requests, and code review.
Comfort with data: you define success metrics, use them to make decisions, and design data-rich interfaces people actually understand
Excellent interaction and visual craft, and clear written communication
Nice to have
Experience with video hosting, media, or digital asset management products
Design system or other frontend contributions in code
Analytics or data visualization products
Experience with overseeing multiple project or product areas simultaneously
Is this role for you?
You'll probably love it here if:
You want real ownership of the product at the foundation of Wistia, and influence over choosing which problems to solve, not just defining the solutions.
You enjoy leading both the big picture and the details of your craft/hands-on work.
You're excited to design and adapt with AI tools in your primary toolkit workflow (Claude Design, coding agents), and for a product where people and AI agents work side by side.
You’re excited to use fresh eyes and intellect to make a well-loved, established product continue to feel fresh and helpful.
It might not be the right fit if:
You're looking to manage people, or to step away from hands-on design
You prefer lots of design support around you day-to-day (our product teams are small and senior, so you'll often be the only designer in the room).
You haven't helped translate your designs in code yet and aren't keen to start.
Compensation, benefits, and location
At Wistia, we are building the leading video platform for small and medium B2B businesses, and we know that starts with our team. We support, challenge, and celebrate one another, and we invest deeply in connection. Why? Because strong relationships drive better outcomes, and because work is more meaningful when we genuinely care about the people we do it with.
We care a lot, so our benefits are actually benefits, not just the fun stuff like swag and snacks in the office (though we have lots of those too!). We know the biggest investment we can make is in our employees, so we provide:
A competitive compensation package that includes employee stock options
401k with 3% company contribution, regardless of whether you contribute (Roth 401k available)
Fully paid healthcare, dental, and vision insurance premiums (family plans included)
Pre-tax FSA and Dependent Care Account
16 weeks of paid parental leave
Flexible Time Off. Everyone should get out of their office to recharge and reboot.
Annual professional development stipend (courses, conferences, and more)
New hire bonus to enhance your home office setup
Pet insurance discount
Fully remote, work from anywhere in the contiguous United States
Wistia provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Compensation Range: $190K - $220KLocation
Remote
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Remote
Department
Product Design
Deadline to Apply
January 30, 2027 at 11:00 PM CST
Compensation
- $190K – $220K • Offers Equity
About the role
Wistia helps businesses grow with video, from hosting and a player built for marketing to analytics, webinars, and AI tools that make video easier to create and share.
We're hiring a Staff Product Design Lead for Hosting, Wistia's core product. Whether a video is uploaded, recorded in a webinar, or made with our AI creation tools, it's hosted in Wistia for everything that comes after. The hosting team oversees these interconnected customer needs from end-to-end:
Organize their library, so the right video is easy to find, manage, and control access to
Publish it through our player, embeds, and pages that bring video to their websites and audiences
Analyze how it performs, so they know what's working and what to do next
Nearly every Wistia customer relies on Hosting. As we expand into webinars, video creation, and agentic workflows, it remains the foundation of our Video Platform.
You'll be the design lead for Hosting and report to our VP of Product Design, working closely with Hosting's product and engineering leads to set strategy and decide what we build. You'll also stay hands-on, owning key projects yourself and contributing directly in code alongside your engineering partners on a small, senior, AI-native team. This is a leading individual contributor role with a high degree of autonomy and strategic influence.
What you'll do
Own the design work, end-to-end. Take ambiguous, high-impact problems from discovery to launch, hand in hand with your engineering partners. You'll prototype with whatever tools work best (lately, Claude Design and Wistia’s own internal Agent), create high-fidelity polish where needed whether in design assets or in code, and contribute changes directly (like front-end polish, quality fixes, and smaller features) with our in-house AI agent, Claude Code, or Cursor.
Lead design visions for Hosting. With your product and engineering leads, pick the customer problems and strategic bets worth exploring, then lead the work that makes possible futures tangible, from next-trimester ideas to multi-year north stars (like how organizing, publishing, and analyzing come together as one experience). Visions are one of the ways we stay ambitious, connect work that would otherwise ship as separate features, and decide what's worth pursuing (and what isn't).
Help shape Hosting's strategy. Our pillar leads drive product strategy, drawing on company themes, customer feedback, and market insight. You'll be a key voice in it, bringing design visions, research, and a deep understanding of how customers use Hosting, then help turn priorities into a roadmap that ships customer value quickly.
Raise the quality bar. Champion accessibility, performance, and consistency with our design system across the surfaces customers use most.
Help the team work at its best. Spot what's slowing us down, improve how design and engineering collaborate, and help your partners make the case for the people and resources Hosting needs.
What you'll bring
8+ years of product design experience, ideally with experience on B2B or SaaS products
A portfolio that shows you leading design across a whole product area, including evolving established products customers already depend on.
Experience as a design lead alongside product and engineering partners: shaping strategy and goals, making tradeoffs, and influencing well beyond your own projects
Strong systems thinking, so you can break large, tangled problems into clear, shippable steps
Hands-on experience building with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar), and comfort or openness to working in a codebase with branches, pull requests, and code review.
Comfort with data: you define success metrics, use them to make decisions, and design data-rich interfaces people actually understand
Excellent interaction and visual craft, and clear written communication
Nice to have
Experience with video hosting, media, or digital asset management products
Design system or other frontend contributions in code
Analytics or data visualization products
Experience with overseeing multiple project or product areas simultaneously
Is this role for you?
You'll probably love it here if:
You want real ownership of the product at the foundation of Wistia, and influence over choosing which problems to solve, not just defining the solutions.
You enjoy leading both the big picture and the details of your craft/hands-on work.
You're excited to design and adapt with AI tools in your primary toolkit workflow (Claude Design, coding agents), and for a product where people and AI agents work side by side.
You’re excited to use fresh eyes and intellect to make a well-loved, established product continue to feel fresh and helpful.
It might not be the right fit if:
You're looking to manage people, or to step away from hands-on design
You prefer lots of design support around you day-to-day (our product teams are small and senior, so you'll often be the only designer in the room).
You haven't helped translate your designs in code yet and aren't keen to start.
Compensation, benefits, and location
At Wistia, we are building the leading video platform for small and medium B2B businesses, and we know that starts with our team. We support, challenge, and celebrate one another, and we invest deeply in connection. Why? Because strong relationships drive better outcomes, and because work is more meaningful when we genuinely care about the people we do it with.
We care a lot, so our benefits are actually benefits, not just the fun stuff like swag and snacks in the office (though we have lots of those too!). We know the biggest investment we can make is in our employees, so we provide:
A competitive compensation package that includes employee stock options
401k with 3% company contribution, regardless of whether you contribute (Roth 401k available)
Fully paid healthcare, dental, and vision insurance premiums (family plans included)
Pre-tax FSA and Dependent Care Account
16 weeks of paid parental leave
Flexible Time Off. Everyone should get out of their office to recharge and reboot.
Annual professional development stipend (courses, conferences, and more)
New hire bonus to enhance your home office setup
Pet insurance discount
Fully remote, work from anywhere in the contiguous United States
Wistia provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Compensation Range: $190K - $220KLocation
Remote
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Remote
Department
Product Design
Deadline to Apply
January 30, 2027 at 11:00 PM CST
Compensation
- $190K – $220K • Offers Equity
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Who's Hiring
- Renesas17
- Tesla16
- Micron Technology12
- Celestica11
- Redwood Materials11
Top Industries Hiring
- Electronics & Hardware28
- Technology & Software14
- Manufacturing13
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals5
- Consulting & Professional Services5
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in staff design engineer jobs.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical, mechanical, or computer engineering
- 8 or more years of hands-on hardware or IC design experience
- Proficiency in CAD, EDA, or schematic capture tools relevant to the domain
- Experience leading architecture or design reviews and setting technical direction
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior and mid-level engineers on design methodology
- Familiarity with DFM, DFT, or reliability standards applied across a full product lifecycle
Tips for Your Staff Design Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to design ownership
Staff-level roles expect you to own significant design decisions, not just execute them. Rewrite your bullet points to show which blocks, subsystems, or architectures you led end-to-end, and what measurable outcomes resulted from those decisions.
Highlight cross-functional influence on paper
Hiring managers at the staff level screen heavily for candidates who have shaped direction across teams. Call out times you influenced firmware, manufacturing, or systems engineers outside your immediate group, not just your own design contributions.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists staff design engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter openings by design domain precisely
Staff design engineer postings vary enormously by domain: analog IC, RF, digital logic, power electronics, and mechanical all require distinct portfolios. Search with your specific domain in the query so you're not competing blind against engineers with an entirely different background.
Prepare a design review walkthrough for interviews
Most staff-level design interviews include a deep technical review of a project you led. Prepare a 20-minute walkthrough of one complex design, covering your tradeoffs, the constraints you worked under, and what you would do differently, so you're ready to go deep on demand.
Negotiate scope and charter, not just compensation
At the staff level, what you work on matters as much as what you earn. During offer conversations, ask which programs the role will own, what the design review authority looks like, and whether the team has headcount to grow, so you can evaluate the actual trajectory.
Staff Design Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most staff design engineers?
Renesas, Tesla, and Micron Technology are hiring the most staff design engineers right now, with openings concentrated in California, Texas, and Massachusetts, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially strong in semiconductor, aerospace, and medical device companies scaling new product lines.
How many staff design engineer jobs are remote?
About 53% of staff design engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though fully remote roles are more common in digital design, firmware-adjacent hardware work, and systems architecture than in lab-intensive analog or mechanical design positions that require hands-on prototyping and testing access.
How do you become a staff design engineer?
Start by building deep expertise in one design domain, such as analog circuits, RF systems, or digital logic, through senior-level roles where you own significant subsystems. From there, demonstrate cross-functional technical leadership by driving architecture decisions, contributing to design standards, and mentoring others. Most engineers reach the staff level after consistently delivering complex designs independently and influencing direction beyond their immediate team.
Can you get hired as a staff design engineer without direct staff-level experience?
Some candidates move into staff roles directly from a strong senior position when they can show they have already been operating at that level informally. The key is evidence: architecture documents you authored, design reviews you led, or technical direction you set for a team. Without that documentation, you're asking a hiring manager to take your word for scope you haven't formally held, which is a harder sell at this level.
What does the staff design engineer interview process look like?
Most staff design engineer interview loops include a recruiter screen, a technical phone interview focused on domain-specific design problems, and an onsite or virtual loop with four to six rounds. Expect a deep technical presentation on a past project, whiteboard or live design exercises, and conversations about how you have influenced direction and collaborated across teams. Senior leadership interviews are common at this level.
Where can I find and apply to staff design engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to staff design engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search for roles that match your domain and experience level, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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