Product Designer, Elastic

Forge’s talented and experienced teams grow our customers’ businesses 365 days a year with products that create connections, deliver content, and drive commerce. We produce over 140 annual events, create and deliver content through print and digital channels, and power commerce through our seamlessly integrated in-person and digital platforms and channels. For more information, please visit http://www.forgelive.com.

• →Own end-to-end UI design in Figma: user flows, high-fidelity screens, and interactive prototypes tied to product and customer needs
• →Design responsive experiences across mobile, tablet, and desktop
• →Use AI tools (e.g., Figma AI, Claude) to explore faster, generate variations, and prototype more, then refine with craft and judgment
• →Learn our business, our customers, and their buying workflows, and apply that understanding to design decisions
• →Gather feedback from end users and focus groups, and turn it into design improvements
• →Contribute to and help evolve our design system, including components and usage guidelines, so design and code stay consistent
• →Write clear design requirements and specifications, including interaction behavior, states, and edge cases, for engineering handoff
• →Partner with product and engineering from concept through launch
• →Participate in Agile ceremonies and communicate design decisions clearly to audiences at every level

• Strong critical thinking, problem solving, and attention to detail
• Hands-on fluency with AI design and prototyping tools, and a point of view on where they help and where they don’t
• Ability to quickly learn a complex business and its users
• Ability to design for a global, multilingual audience
• Ability to work independently, drive projects without direction, and prioritize across competing demands
• Positive attitude, with the ability to give and receive constructive feedback
• Clear written and verbal communication

• 5+ years as a UI/UX designer, product designer, or similar role
• Expert-level Figma skills (auto layout, components, prototyping)
• Experience designing accessible interfaces, with working knowledge of accessibility standards
• Experience contributing to or building a design system (component libraries, documentation)
• A portfolio showing shipped responsive web products, ideally in eCommerce or B2B
• Demonstrated use of AI in your design process, with examples in your portfolio or in conversation
• Experience writing design specifications and working directly with engineers
• Working knowledge of HTML/CSS, source control, and web development basics is a plus