Product Designer - Canvas Team

Overview

At Goodnotes, we believe that every individual holds untapped potential waiting to be unleashed. By reimagining the way we interact with information, we re merging human creativity with the breakthrough capabilities of AI. Our renewed vision and mission drive us to create the best medium for human and AI collaboration, empowering users to explore new dimensions of productivity, creativity, and learning.

Join us on this journey as we transform digital note-taking into an inspiring and innovative experience.

We are hiring a Staff Product Designer to join our Canvas Team.

• Dream big:
  Be visionary, strategic, and open to innovation
• Build great things:
  Work in service of our users, always improving and pushing higher
• Operate like an owner:
  Take responsibility with bold decision-making and bias for action
• Win like a sports team:
  Be trusting and collaborative while empowering others
• Learn and grow fast:
  Never stop learning and iterate fast
• Share our passion:
  Share ideas and practice enthusiasm and joy
• Be user obsessed:
  Empathetic, inquisitive, practical
• Ready to shape how millions of people think, write, and collaborate?

We re looking for an exceptional Staff Product Designer to join our Canvas Team  ll shape key parts of the canvas experience, how users capture thoughts, create content, and express themselves. This is a high-impact role for someone who loves building expressive, scalable systems and solving complex interaction challenges.

About the team

The Canvas Team builds the core experience of Goodnotes: the infinite, stylus-friendly space where ideas take shape. We design the tools that make creativity flow, including drawing, writing, diagramming, navigation, and collaboration. Our work turns any device into a seamless digital notebook for individuals and teams.

As a Staff Product Designer, you will define the vision and experience of the infinite canvas. You will lead design across multiple product areas, creating clear connections between user experience quality and measurable product outcomes. You role is to ensure every interaction from a simple sketch to a collaborative session feels effortless and intuitive.

You will work closely with product and engineering to shape how our tools evolve across platforms and ship well crafted, performant, and inspiring experiences that redefine what digital handwriting and whiteboarding can be.

This is the role for you, if you re excited to work on the things listed below:

• Shape the design direction for the Canvas, creating a cohesive and scalable experience across platforms (iOS, macOS, Windows, Android, Web).
• Translate user and business goals into clear design principles, frameworks, and success metrics.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leads to prioritize the roadmap and make strategic trade-offs that balance craft, performance, and delivery.

• Design and prototype high-quality interactions for handwriting, navigation, diagramming, and collaboration.
• Prototype and test at multiple fidelities to explore ideas quickly and validate with real users.
• Turn complex concepts like infinite space and real-time input into elegant and intuitive experiences.
• Build and evolve systems, components, and guidelines that enable design consistency and speed across teams.
• Use qualitative and quantitative data to evaluate impact and refine design solutions.

• Mentor and coach senior designers, raising the level of craft and systems thinking across the organization.
• Facilitate clear communication and alignment between design, product, and engineering.
• Advocate for user experience quality while balancing scope, constraints, and business priorities.
• Foster a culture of openness and trust across the design team by sharing feedback constructively and celebrating each other s wins.
• Model collaboration, transparency, and curiosity in every project.

• 8+ years of product design experience, including proven impact as a Staff or Senior Staff Designer.
• Deep expertise in interaction design, systems thinking, and visual clarity.
• Experience designing tools or creative products such as whiteboards, note-taking, diagramming, or collaboration software.
• Strong ability to turn abstract concepts into concrete design direction and scalable systems.
• Skilled in facilitating design reviews, driving consensus, and influencing without formal authority.
• Comfortable working closely with engineers and understanding technical constraints.
• Portfolio that shows clear thinking, high craft, and measurable product outcomes.

• Experience with stylus, real-time collaboration, or rendering-heavy interfaces.
• Background in motion design, information architecture, or prototyping complex interactions.
• Thought leadership through writing, mentoring, or community contributions.

• Experience in fast-paced startup environments.
• Familiarity with front-end development principles.
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