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title: 'Senior Staff Product Designer at Apollo GraphQL'
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# Senior Staff Product Designer at Apollo GraphQL

- **Company:** Apollo GraphQL
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $242k–$306k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/apollo-graphql/f061c434-3b6d-474f-a4d6-01f6a5bddbe1

## Job description

AT APOLLO GRAPHQL, WE'RE ON A MISSION TO MAKE IT RADICALLY EASIER FOR ENGINEERING TEAMS TO SHIP FAST, RELIABLE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ON TOP OF THE WORLD'S DATA, POWERING EVERYTHING FROM WEB TO MOBILE TO AGENTIC EXPERIENCES.

Apollo supports some of the largest GraphQL APIs in the world. Companies like Walmart, Expedia, Peloton, DoorDash, and The New York Times are just a small sample of Apollo's customers. We're not looking to rest on our laurels, though — we're aiming to change how software is built.

What consumes an API is changing. Increasingly it's an agent acting on someone's behalf — one that needs a graph it can traverse and controls over what it can reach. That's the next thing we're building, and design will decide whether it's usable or not.

Are you with us? If so, read on…

## About the role

You'll help decide where design effort creates the most value at Apollo, then build it — starting with our core developer experience, the tools engineers use daily to build, test, and manage their APIs. From there, you'll have real range: another major product area, the onboarding experience for new developers, our design system, and the interfaces our AI agents use are all open ground, depending on where the opportunity is biggest.

This isn't a role where someone hands you a spec. You'll form your own point of view on what's worth building, make the case for it, and own it through to what ships.

## What you'll do

- Assess Apollo's product surfaces end to end, identify where design effort creates the most leverage, and drive that work from idea through execution.
- Lead the modernization of our core developer experiences — turning a set of powerful but disconnected features into coherent journeys.
- Partner with engineering as a peer, not a downstream recipient of requirements — bring your own point of view on what should get built, and make the case for it.
- Set design and craft standards that other builders — designers, PMs, and engineers alike — actually adopt, contributing patterns to our design system that speed up delivery beyond your own team.
- Know when a decision needs real usability testing and when it doesn't.
- Tie your design work to something the business measures: developer activation, time-to-first-successful-API-call, or support cost tied to a confusing flow.

## Who you are

## Minimum requirements

- 12+ years designing software, with a portfolio of shipped work.
- Experience designing technically complex products for technical users — developer tools, infrastructure, data, security, identity, or APIs.
- A track record of identifying high-leverage problems yourself and designing end-to-end solutions.
- Strong visual design and craft skills.
- Skilled at operating independently to turn ambiguous problems into cohesive vision.
- A track record of driving your own work: proactively surfacing problems and building alignment with engineering rather than waiting for direction.

## Nice to have

- Shipped developer-focused experiences, API tooling, or agent experiences.
- An engineering or developer background, or have contributed production code.
- Comfortable moving fluidly between high-altitude thinking and interaction/craft details.
- Work fluently within a design system, and know when to work outside it.
- An avid user of AI design tools — able to describe what you use, for what, and where the limits are.

Location: This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere in the US

Equal Opportunity: Apollo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a talented and diverse workforce.

Privacy: California residents applying for positions at Apollo can see our privacy policy here https://www.apollographql.com/CCPA-Privacy-Notice-for-Employees.pdf.

Apollo is an E-Verify employer and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information please visit E-Verify https://www.e-verify.gov.

## About Apollo GraphQL

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Apollo GraphQL provides an API orchestration platform that enables teams to unify GraphQL and REST APIs into a single, composable graph for powering AI agents, web, and mobile applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Matt DeBergalis (CTO & Co-founder), Nick Martin (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Software Development / API Infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, and SMB engineering teams building modern applications and AI agents
- **Mission or purpose**: To make application development easier, better, and accessible to more people by simplifying how software applications communicate with infrastructure.

## Products & Services
- **[GraphOS Platform](https://www.apollographql.com/)**: A commercial API orchestration platform that enables backend teams to build a self-service, self-documenting graph (supergraph) that unifies GraphQL and REST APIs. It provides GraphQL-native metrics, performance optimization, and governance for AI agents, web, and mobile apps.
- **[Apollo Federation](https://www.apollographql.com/)**: An open-source architecture for composing multiple GraphQL services into a single unified graph, enabling teams to work independently while maintaining a cohesive API.
- **[Apollo Connectors](https://www.apollographql.com/)**: A low-code tool that allows teams to bring all APIs together in minutes on a declarative, query-based GraphQL platform, accelerating app development.
- **[Apollo Client](https://www.apollographql.com/)**: A popular open-source GraphQL client for frontend development, enabling declarative data fetching and state management.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (Private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of approximately **$38.8 million** (latest estimate) [apollographql.com](https://www.apollographql.com/)
- **Total Funding**: Backed by **Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Insight Partners**, and others. Specific funding amounts not publicly detailed in recent data.
- **Notable Customers**: Netflix, Coinbase, PayPal, The New York Times, Booking.com, Expedia Group, Walmart, Peloton, Wayfair, DoorDash, Bumble, Hyatt, Volkswagen, Cox Automotive, MLB, and many more [apollographql.com](https://www.apollographql.com/).
- **Growth Signals**: Over **1 billion downloads** of its open-source software; powers some of the largest GraphQL APIs in the world; expanding into AI agent orchestration; trusted by enterprise leaders across industries [apollographql.com](https://www.apollographql.com/).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source dominance**: With over 1 billion downloads, Apollo’s open-source tools (Apollo Client, Apollo Server, Apollo Federation) are the de facto standard for GraphQL development.
- **Enterprise-grade platform**: GraphOS provides a secure, governed, and scalable infrastructure for managing APIs at scale, trusted by companies like Netflix, Coinbase, and Walmart.
- **AI-native orchestration**: The platform is purpose-built to connect AI agents to GraphQL and REST APIs, positioning Apollo at the center of the AI application development wave.
- **Strong developer community**: A massive, active open-source community ensures continuous innovation, widespread adoption, and a deep talent pool.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI agent orchestration**: Extending the graph platform to power AI agents and agentic applications, enabling safe and governed access to enterprise data.
- **Platform composability**: Continuing to evolve GraphOS to allow teams to define core entities and business logic once and ship them anywhere, across any interface.
- **Enterprise scale and governance**: Providing a central registry, standardized workflows, and security controls for large organizations to manage their API ecosystems.
- **Performance and reliability**: Optimizing GraphQL performance with features like the GraphOS Router, real-time data, and latency reduction.

## Why Work Here
- **Globally distributed, remote-first culture**: Apollo is a globally distributed company with over 220 "Apollonauts" across 10 countries and 13 time zones. There is no return-to-office mandate; the company is fully remote-first [apollographql.com](https://www.apollographql.com/careers).
- **Strong values-driven environment**: The company operates on four core values: **Growth Mindset**, **Empowering Others**, **Caring**, and **Stewardship**. These guide hiring, collaboration, and how the team shows up for each other and customers [apollographql.com](https://www.apollographql.com/careers).
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Full benefits package (varies by country), **Flexible Time Off (FTO)**, and **parental leave** for birthing and non-birthing parents, supported by a personal leave specialist [apollographql.com](https://www.apollographql.com/careers).
- **Engineering culture**: Engineers work on high-performance, secure, and reliable infrastructure for some of the most demanding GraphQL workloads in the world. The team is passionate about Rust, distributed systems, and open-source.
- **Work environment**: Fully remote-first, globally distributed team across 10 countries and 13 time zones. The company emphasizes autonomy, collaboration, and learning from each other.

## Sources
1. [Apollo GraphQL Official Website](https://www.apollographql.com/)
2. [Apollo GraphQL Careers Page](https://www.apollographql.com/careers)
3. [Apollo GraphQL LinkedIn](https://it.linkedin.com/company/apollo-graphql)
4. [Apollo GraphQL GitHub](https://github.com/apollographql)
5. [Apollo GraphQL Jobs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/apollo-graphql)

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