Staff Product Designer
About this role
Staff Designers at The Coca-Cola Company operate across product areas, not just within one. Your scope will span:
Digital enterprise and consumer experiences across The Coca-Cola Company's global brand portfolio
Sales, service, and operational tools used by the teams who run the business day to day
The design system and shared experience frameworks that give our products coherence at scale
AI-enabled and intelligent product experiences as we integrate emerging capabilities across our platform
The design practice itself: how we work, how we grow designers, and how we earn influence across the organization
You will not be heads-down on a single product area. You will be the connective tissue across teams, the person who sees the whole board and makes the right calls about where design needs to go next.
Responsibilities
Strategic Design Influence and Leadership
Co-create product strategy with product management and engineering partners for your areas, shaping vision and roadmap from the start, not after the fact
Craft UX direction across multiple product areas, ensuring coherence, quality, and user-centricity across multiple user types
Anticipate and break down organizational and technical resistance, navigating ambiguity with confidence and earning trust through sound judgment
Executive-level communication on design strategy, crafting narratives that land with senior leadership and move stakeholders to alignment
Design Craft and Innovation
Develop seamless, scalable design solutions that prioritize customer value and address complex, interconnected needs
Work with Design leader and team to establish our design system, ensuring it evolves to meet the demands of a growing, global product portfolio
Model exceptional craft standards and hold a high bar for quality across every experience the team ships
Introduce and champion new design approaches, tools, and methodologies, including AI-assisted design, that help the team move faster without sacrificing rigor
Practice Building and Governance
Create and maintain governance practices around design systems, accessibility, and experience standards
Partner with Product and Design leadership to define how design works at Coca-Cola: the rituals, frameworks, and ways of working that make the team effective and scalable
Scale your expertise: Identify gaps in practice maturity and proactively close them, building systems, workflows or infrastructure that allows other designers to do their best work
Mentorship and Talent Growth
Mentor and develop design craft and experience strategy on the team, actively investing in the growth and evolution of design at The Coca-Cola Company
Lead critique, feedback, and review processes that raise the quality of the team's work and develop design judgment across the organization
Foster a culture of experimentation, reflection, and continuous improvement, making learning a visible and valued part of how the team operates
Cross-Functional Influence
Build deep, trusted relationships with product, engineering, data, and research partners at the most senior levels
Secure stakeholder buy-in through compelling storytelling and a track record of delivering outcomes, not just artifacts
Represent the design organization in strategic conversations across the business, advocating for user-centered approaches with clarity and credibility
What We Are Looking For
Required
8-10 years of product design or UX experience, with at least 2 years operating at a staff, principal, or design lead level
Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
A portfolio demonstrating strategic design and thought leadership on complex, high-impact digital products with measurable business and user outcomes
Proven ability to co-own product strategy alongside product management and engineering, shaping direction from the top down, not just responding to it
Experience contributing to or significantly evolving a design system and the governance practices around it, especially how embedded AI components work within and across platforms. Know the difference between traditional UX, AI in UX and Agentic UX principles and why they matter, with examples.
Strong storytelling and communication skills: you can tailor your message to any audience and consistently earn alignment from senior stakeholders
Demonstrated success mentoring or peer-coaching designers and influencing team capability, not just delivering great work yourself
Deep fluency in user-centered design, accessibility standards, and interaction design across web and mobile platforms
Proficiency in Figma, Claude Code, Claude Design and other modern (AI) prototyping tools, with clear examples of how AI is incorporated into your workflows, how you evaluate AI capabilities, as well as how your inputs and outcomes have improved in the last 18 months
Preferred
Background in complex B2B Saas or enterprise software, CPG, retail, or ecommerce that span multiple user roles, geographies, and touchpoints, often building systems or connected platforms from the ground up.
Expertise designing for or alongside AI-enabled and intelligent systems, including agentic or generative experiences
Experience operating across both consumer-facing and internal tooling product contexts
Core Skills
Strategic Vision: You can evaluate opportunities and deliver design vision with confidence, connecting user needs, business goals, and technical realities into a coherent experience strategy that others rally behind.
Design Craft at Scale: You design experiences that are intuitive, accessible, and elegant, and you build the systems that make quality repeatable across a team.
Effective Influence: You communicate with clarity and credibility at every level of the organization, earning trust through both the quality of your thinking and the outcomes you deliver.
Practice Leadership: You build the infrastructure, culture, and habits that make a design team great, not just the work that comes out of it.
Mentorship and Coaching: You invest the people around you and make developing designers a core part of how you lead.
Customer-First Judgment: You hold the line on user value when tradeoffs get hard, and you do it in ways that bring partners with you rather than creating friction.
Location
This role is based at The Coca-Cola Company's global headquarters in Atlanta, GA. We work a hybrid schedule of three days per week in office, designed to build the highly cohesive, collaborative team culture we are intentionally creating. Relocation assistance is available for candidates who are open to making Atlanta home.
Atlanta is a city on the rise, with a growing tech and creative scene, a relatively low cost of living compared to coastal markets, and The Coca-Cola Company at the center of it. If you have ever wanted to do the most meaningful work of your career without paying San Francisco rent, this is worth a serious look.
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