Lead Product Designer - Core / Visual Editor

Lead Product Designer

We built Bubble with a clear mission: to empower everyone to create software. Our AI visual development platform lets anyone, from first-time entrepreneurs to enterprise teams, take an idea from prompt to fully-functional, scalable app across web, iOS, and Android. With over 6 million users in more than 100 countries, Bubble is breaking down the barriers to entrepreneurship and innovation worldwide.

At Bubble, we're redefining how software gets made—and that transformation starts in our visual editor. We're looking for a Lead Product Designer to own the evolution of the core Bubble application building interfaces where makers bring their ideas to life. This is a high-impact role for a designer who thinks end-to-end about complex systems and workflows, and who thrives on turning that complexity into powerful, intuitive tools. Our goal is to improve the ease of use of our visual development editor so that anyone can succeed at building applications on the Bubble platform while also enhancing and extending it to support additional use cases.

What You Will Be Doing

• Serve as the Lead Product Designer for Bubble's core platform visual editor, shaping the design vision and execution for the foundational capabilities that power our entire builder experience. Champion simplicity, clarity, and ease of use so that Bubble's most advanced tools feel intuitive and approachable to builders of all backgrounds.
• Own the end-to-end design process for new and existing features—from research and ideation through high-fidelity design, validation, and launch—crafting cohesive, discoverable, and efficient experiences across Bubble's building and editing tools.
• Play a central role in extending Bubble's AI capabilities into the visual editor, designing hybrid AI-and-visual workflows that keep builders firmly in control while making complex tasks feel faster, smarter, and easier.
• Drive cross-functional alignment by partnering closely with PMs, engineers, and other designers to integrate new interaction patterns, workflows, and technologies in a way that feels natural, consistent, and predictable across the product.
• Lead user research and usability testing for your product area, uncovering friction and opportunities, and turning insights into pragmatic design improvements that reduce cognitive load, improve learnability, and help users build faster with fewer mistakes.

Your Achievements

• Led the conception and launch of core end-user facing product features that improved usability across multiple product surfaces, setting a clear direction for user-centric, responsible, and easy-to-learn design.
• Experienced in tackling complex problem spaces and UX challenges with intuitive solutions.
• Incorporated rapid prototyping, experimentation, and enabling technologies into the design process to validate usability quickly and ship intuitive, high-quality solutions.
• Mentored and developed associate designers, elevating the craft of product design with a focus on clear interaction patterns, accessibility, and creating experiences that feel simple—even when the underlying systems are complex.
• Built strong cross-team partnerships that enabled cohesive, end-to-end user journeys, ensuring that new features and touchpoints felt consistent, predictable, and easy to navigate across the platform.

Qualifications We Need

• 10+ years of experience in Product Design or related fields (UX, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Experience Architecture), including work on complex, multi-surface products where usability and clarity were core outcomes.
• A track record of designing and shipping high-impact end-user facing features on mature platforms, with a portfolio that demonstrates system-level thinking, end-to-end ownership, and measurable improvements to ease of use and overall experience quality.
• Strong capability in orchestrating design workstreams across multiple product areas, collaborating with and influencing cross-functional partners, and thoughtfully integrating new interaction patterns and technologies into existing workflows without adding friction.
• Proven ability to mentor and grow associate designers, raising the bar on usability, interaction quality, and user-centered decision-making while fostering a culture of thoughtful critique and continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to frame UX tradeoffs, present complex design decisions to executives and cross-disciplinary teams, and advocate for user needs in a way that aligns with business goals.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in HCI, Interaction Design, or a related field.

Portfolio Requirements

• Your portfolio should feature product work that has been released to users, ideally on complex platforms or tools, not just concept projects.
• Your portfolio should highlight at least one case study where you significantly improved platform-wide usability, clarity, or ease of use across multiple surfaces.
• Your portfolio should demonstrate strong systems thinking, showing both breadth and depth in UX and interaction design across interconnected flows and features.
• Your portfolio should clearly articulate your design process and show how your work evolved over time: the business problem, constraints and assumptions, initial direction, key iterations, and the final outcome.
• Your portfolio should explain how your designs advanced company or product objectives—such as adoption, efficiency, or quality—while also meaningfully improving the user experience.
• You must provide a password to your portfolio at application time.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation aligned to tier one markets. Our estimated salary for this role at Bubble ranges from $191,000 to $248,000. Actual pay is determined by multiple factors such as skills, qualifications, experience and market demand.

Location

For this role, Bubble is currently only considering candidates who are authorized to work in the US and are within the New York City metro area.

We prefer hiring people within commuting distance of our NYC office because we value getting together in person regularly. For those who enjoy working from our Manhattan office on a more regular basis, we offer catered lunches, and happy hours, among other fun perks.

Benefits

In addition to cash and equity compensation, Bubble offers a robust benefits package equating to roughly twenty thousand in additional annual compensation:

• Comprehensive health coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Wellness and work enablement stipends
• Generous PTO
• A Sabbatical program

Join us!

Let's democratize access to technology together! If this sounds like you, apply! If you don't meet all of the qualifications but think you could be a match, we'd still love the chance to review your application. At Bubble, we encourage people from all ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Bubble does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Perhaps this job doesn't fit your background? Join our talent community!