Staff Growth Designer

Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

Position Summary

As a Staff Growth Designer at Harness, you’ll design experiences that accelerate adoption, retention, and expansion across the customer journey. You’ll uncover where users lose momentum, design moments that re-engage them, and apply behavioral design principles to shape motivation, ability, and triggers. Every interaction should help users progress toward value naturally and intuitively.

This role blends high-craft design with disciplined experimentation. You’ll design and validate flows that feel intuitive and connected, using interaction, motion, and transitions to guide users seamlessly across states and surfaces. You’ll partner closely with Product, Growth Marketing, and Engineering to uncover friction, form hypotheses, and translate behavioral insights into experiences that are fluid, purposeful, and outcome-driven.

About the Role

• Design for impact: Create experiences that improve activation, retention, and expansion across key journeys

• Experiment and learn: Design, launch, and analyze A/B and multivariate tests to validate ideas and accelerate learning

• Collaborate across teams: Partner with Product, Growth, and Engineering to prioritize and deliver work that aligns user value with business outcomes

• Use data with intent: Define success metrics with analytics partners and translate findings into actionable design decisions

• Prototype rapidly: Build interactive prototypes and production-ready designs that bring growth ideas to life

• Enhance onboarding: Identify and remove friction in setup and education, ensuring users experience value early and often

• Drive Crossflow: Design cohesive transitions that reveal how our products work together and help users realize the full value of the platform.

• Scale design learning: Capture insights, build playbooks, and share patterns that help the broader team design for growth

About You

• 4+ years in growth design within SaaS or technology environments

• Proven ability to design and iterate based on experimentation and user behavior

• Strong understanding of growth funnels, behavioral design, and motivation frameworks such as the Fogg Behavior Model

• Skilled in Figma and rapid prototyping tools

• Experience with analytics and experimentation platforms like Mixpanel, Amplitude, or FullStory

• Strong communicator who connects design intent to measurable outcomes

• Experience collaborating across Product, Growth, and Marketing to drive adoption and retention

• Experience with developer tools, CI/CD, or AI-driven platforms

Work Location

• Remote from within the U.S or Hybrid from one of our offices in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, or Dallas

What You Will Have at Harness

• Competitive salary

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave

• Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days

• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events

• Recharge & Reset Program

• Monthly internet reimbursement

• Commuter benefit

The anticipated base salary range for this position is between $170,00 and $202000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers.

A valid authorization to work in the U.S. is required

Pay transparency
$170,000—$202,000 USD

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• Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco, Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger

• Harness snags Split.io, as it goes all in on feature flags and experiments

• Exclusive: Jyoti Bansal-led Harness has raised $150 million in debt financing

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers

We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers.

Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at [email protected]. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.