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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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Lead with design systems and scope
H-1B specialty occupation requires a directly related degree. Framing your experience around systems-level work, design systems, multi-platform architecture, org-wide standards, signals the specialized knowledge USCIS expects at this seniority level.
Quantify your cross-functional impact
Sponsors filing your petition need to justify a specialty occupation claim. Concrete outcomes like retention improvements, conversion lifts, or engineering hours saved give immigration counsel the specificity required to build a strong LCA and I-129.
Clarify your degree field early
HCI, graphic design, and fine arts degrees can qualify for H-1B if the role requires that specific field. Flag any degree mismatch upfront so your employer's attorney can assess whether a combination of education and experience resolves it before filing.
Position yourself for O-1A if H-1B lottery fails
Senior Staff designers with published work, speaking credits, awards, or press coverage may qualify for O-1A extraordinary ability. Document these signals now, they're the evidence base if you need a lottery-independent path after an unsuccessful registration.
Target companies with repeat H-1B filings for designers
Not all tech employers sponsor at this level. Prioritize companies with a documented history of H-1B approvals for product design roles. DOL LCA disclosure data confirms whether a specific employer has filed for comparable positions before.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified sponsoring employers
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior Staff Product Designer role qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, in most cases. Senior Staff Product Designer is generally treated as a specialty occupation because it requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field, typically HCI, interaction design, industrial design, or a closely related discipline. The key is that the role must require the degree, not merely prefer it. Employers should ensure the job description reflects this requirement explicitly before filing.
What degree field do I need for H-1B sponsorship as a Senior Staff Product Designer?
USCIS accepts degrees in human-computer interaction, interaction design, graphic design, industrial design, and sometimes computer science or cognitive science when the coursework directly supports the role. A general fine arts degree with no design specialization can create problems. If your degree field is borderline, three years of progressive, relevant work experience can substitute for one year of education under the degree equivalency rule.
How often does USCIS approve H-1B petitions for product design roles?
Approval rates for product design H-1B visa petitions are generally strong when the job description clearly articulates the specialty occupation requirement. The bigger obstacle at this stage is the H-1B lottery, where selection rates have hovered around 20 to 25 percent in recent registration cycles. Companies with cap-exempt status, universities, nonprofits affiliated with research, can bypass the lottery entirely, which is worth factoring into your employer search.
Can I get sponsored as a Senior Staff Product Designer without winning the H-1B lottery?
Yes. The O-1A visa for extraordinary ability is the most practical alternative for designers at this seniority level. USCIS evaluates criteria including original contributions of major significance, published material about your work, judging or reviewing others' work, and critical employment in distinguished organizations. Senior Staff designers who have shipped widely recognized products, spoken at industry conferences, or been featured in design press often have more qualifying evidence than they realize.
Where can I find Senior Staff Product Designer jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to find these roles. It surfaces Senior Staff Product Designer positions specifically at employers willing to sponsor, so you're not wasting time on applications that will stall at the visa question. At this seniority level, sponsorship conversations happen early, often in the first recruiter screen, so targeting verified sponsoring companies from the start is the most efficient approach.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Senior Staff Product Designer jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.