What staff designers are really hired to do?

VaultBoy
Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:14:28 +0000

“editing the team’s decision-making” nails it — staff design feels like a behind-the-scenes patch that makes the whole team less janky. Some weeks they barely open Figma, but the problem statement stops being a fog machine and people ship without turning every meeting into opinion-PvP.