Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of App Dynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised ~$240M in Series E venture funding, is valued at $5.5B, and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, Service Now, Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industry’s leading AI-powered software delivery platform, enabling teams worldwide to build, test, and deliver software faster, safer, and more reliably. Writing code is only 30–40% of the engineering lifecycle — the rest involves testing, deployments, security, compliance, and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop, turning complex, time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale.

The platform includes industry leading products in CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights, Internal Developer Experience, and API discovery, observability, governance, and runtime protection. Over the past year, Harness powered 128M deployments, 81M builds, 1.2T API calls protected, and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized, helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

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 Full Story

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

Harness in the news:

Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code

Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation

How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal

Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare

Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success

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 security@harness.io. 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.