Senior Product Designer (6 Month Contract) Zeta Global
AI marketing cloud for scalable and efficient brand programs.
Temporary
New York
Remote: Not specified
Salary: Not specified
> 5 years
Skills we're looking for
Presentation skills
Data visualization
Leadership
Communication skills
Quality management
+24
You'll be part of
2252 employees
Big Data
Media
Our take
Zeta Global is a cloud-based AI marketing platform helping companies acquire, grow and retain customers more efficiently. Its flagship Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP) combines identity resolution, consumer intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform. Using one of the industry's largest proprietary database and advanced AI, Zeta makes personalized marketing simple for enterprise brands worldwide. Its platform is particularly valuable in today's privacy-first, data-driven marketing environment. It helps brands understand individual customers and deliver relevant experience across every channel, from email and SMS ot digital and social. Serving top advertisers and Fortune 500 companies, Zeta turns complex data into actionable insights, so markets have a deeper relationship with their customers and drive measurable results in a competitive landscape. Recently, Zeta expanded its capabilities with acquisition of Marigold's enterprise software business, adding over 100 enterprise clients and new loyalty and engagement tools. This strenghten's Zeta's "One Zeta" model, creates cross-selling opportunities, and extends its footpirnt in EMEA and APAC. Also backed by strong AI investments, a massive proprietary identity graph, and consistent revenue growth, Zeta is in a good position to help brands deliver smarter, more personalized marketing at scale for years to come.
You'll be working on
- This is a 6 month contract opportunity
- We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to help shape the future of the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP) across our core ZMP platform, Athena OS (our next-generation Marketing Operating System), our emerging Agentic Apps ecosystem, and our Data Cloud team
- This role sits at the center of the Product Design team, working wherever the highest-leverage design problems are, rather than owning a single surface
- You’ll partner closely with our design system team and with Product and Engineering triads across each area, helping translate complex platform and data requirements into experiences that are clear, consistent, and genuinely useful for our customers
- You’ll join at a pivotal moment where we’re raising the bar on quality, speed, and innovation across the platform
- Design Across the Platform: Own and evolve Data Visualization focused experiences across ZMP, Athena OS, Agentic Apps, and Data Cloud–facing surfaces, moving fluidly between areas as priorities shift. Manage and improve shared design processes and provide quality oversight. You’ll contribute to the systematic foundation that enables consistency, scalability, and exceptional quality across our entire product ecosystem
- Partner Closely with Product & Engineering: Work as a core triad partner with Product Management and Engineering to define strategy, scope, and execution, translating complex requirements and technical constraints into clear, intuitive experiences. Iterate and improve on concepts across these areas to deliver on unique customer use cases
- Advance AI-Driven & Data-Rich Design Patterns: Contribute to AI interaction models, agentic patterns, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) thinking where relevant, while also shaping how data from Data Cloud and across the platform is surfaced, visualized, and understood, helping define how users understand, trust, and act on the systems and data inside a marketing operating system
- Raise the Bar on Craft, Motion, and Interaction Quality: Lead by example through strong visual design, interaction design, motion, prototyping, and data visualization, setting a new quality bar for speed, clarity, and polish across the platform. This includes knowing when a chart, table, or single number best communicates a piece of data, and holding a high bar for clarity in anything that surfaces data to users or executives
- Influence, Mentor, and Scale Design Impact: Act as a force multiplier for the design team by mentoring designers, reviewing work, and challenging assumptions while creating the systems, interfaces, and processes that enable the company to scale high-quality product design with speed, consistency, and confidence across ZMP, Athena OS, Agentic Apps, and Data Cloud
We're looking for
- We’re looking for someone who can challenge us in the best way: bringing strong skills in data visualization, UX, visual design, systems thinking, motion, and AI to push our thinking forward and help us achieve what hasn’t been done before
- Platform & Systems Design Expertise: Proven ability to design scalable systems, frameworks, and interfaces that support consistency, flexibility, and speed across complex product ecosystems. Comfortable moving across a large platform like ZMP rather than owning one narrow surface. Deep experience working in both Figma and Ai tools, leveraging structured libraries, reusable patterns, and scalable design foundations
- Technical Collaboration & Prototyping: Strong comfort partnering with engineers, understanding technical constraints, and using prototyping (low- and high-fidelity, coded or no-code) to explore, validate, and communicate complex ideas
- End-to-End Product Design Craft: Excellence across UX, visual design, interaction design, motion, and a strong emphasis in data visualization, with the ability to design sophisticated workflows that feel intuitive, human, and high-quality, especially in technically complex environments
- Strong Product Thinking: Can clearly articulate problem → user job → system behavior → outcome. Comfortable designing flows where intent matters more than screens. Knows when not to add UI
- Motion & Micro-Interaction Design: Strong understanding of animation as UX, not decoration. Uses motion to explain system state changes, communicate AI progress and confidence, and reduce perceived latency. Designs micro-interactions for loading → ready, generating → refining, and success/failure/partial results. Motion should make the system feel alive, responsive, and understandable—especially when AI is working in the background
- AI & Agentic Design Fluency: Solid understanding of AI-powered workflows, agentic systems, and emerging interaction patterns, with hands-on experience using AI tools to inform, accelerate, and enhance product design. Comfortable designing experiences shaped by models, context, and automation, not just static interfaces
- Design Leadership Without Authority: Ability to influence outcomes through clarity, critique, documentation, and example-setting—raising the bar for quality and consistency across teams without relying on formal management
- Zeta surfaces a lot of data back to marketers and executives, so this isn’t a nice-to-have—it’s a core competency we’re hiring for alongside AI and systems design
- Executive Stakeholder Management: Comfortable presenting data-heavy design work to executive stakeholders, gathering and synthesizing their feedback, and balancing that input with best practices and user needs
- Data Visualization Fluency: Able to speak confidently to data visualization principles with designers, PMs, engineers, and executives alike. Guides and implements data visualization design best practices across the platform
- Proper Chart Usage: Ensures the right chart type is used for the right data, prioritizing clarity of information over decoration, and knowing when a table, a number, or a chart best answers the user’s question
- Rive, FigJam, Figma Slides
- Figma (expert level): Deep experience with scalable component architecture, variants, auto-layout, design tokens, and shared libraries
- Hands-on, regular use of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or similar LLMs as part of your design workflow—for ideation, exploration, synthesis, critique, and system thinking
- Familiarity with Storybook, React/Next.js
- Comfort using tools like Cursor, Bolt, Lovable, Claude Code, or similar to prototype and experiment on AI-enabled experiences
- Experience with Rive, Motion.dev, Framer Motion, GSAP, or D3 to design micro-animations and stateful interactions that communicate system behavior and progress
- Strong comfort with Figma Prototypes, Framer, ProtoPie, or similar to explore behavior, timing, and interaction
- Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and modern frontend concepts, with the ability to read code, collaborate deeply with engineers, and understand implementation tradeoffs
- Comfort with modern product development workflows: GitHub, Jira, Linear, Notion, Slack, Confluence
- Familiarity with MCP concepts, including how context, memory, tools, and agents influence system behavior and user experience
- Familiarity with visualization principles: chart type selection, color and encoding for accessibility, axis and label clarity, and information density for executive-level reporting
- Working knowledge of charting and visualization tools/libraries such as D3, Chart.js, Highcharts, Observable Plot, or Tableau, and how they map to Figma-designed chart components
- Quality Advocate with Pragmatic Judgment: Cares deeply about craft and polish while understanding that perfect is the enemy of good. Knows when to push for excellence and when to ship, learn, and iterate
- AI-Forward & Curious: Actively experiments with AI tools, workflows, and emerging technologies, and brings that learning back to the team
- Ownership & Accountability: Treats the product like theirs. Follows through. Cares about outcomes, not just delivery
- High Autonomy: Does not need step-by-step direction. Can take a fuzzy problem and drive it to clarity. Comfortable owning an area end-to-end
- Comfort with Ambiguity: Does not freeze when requirements are incomplete. Enjoys shaping the problem space, not just executing tickets. Can operate before things are fully defined
- Clear Communicator: Explains thinking simply to PMs, Engineering, and Leadership. Writes clear rationale, not just design artifacts. Can disagree without being defensive
- Strong Judgment: Knows what’s important vs. what’s nice. Can say “this doesn’t need design” or “this isn’t worth solving yet.” Optimizes for impact, not aesthetics
- Experience presenting and iterating on data visualization or dashboard design with executive stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience leading foundational or platform-level design work that scales across teams, products, or workflows
- Experience mentoring designers, influencing standards, and shaping how design work scales—without needing formal management responsibility
- 7–10+ years of product design experience, with meaningful time spent on complex platforms, systems, or tools (B2B, SaaS, or AI-driven products strongly preferred)
- Proven track record of partnering closely with Product and Engineering in fast-paced environments, ideally across more than one product area or team
- Hands-on experience designing and shipping features, workflows, or systems within large, complex platforms—AI-powered or otherwise