Senior Staff Engineer (Frontend) - Product Architecture and Platform Leadership

AI Is How We Work

Productboard is an AI-first company. Not as a tagline — but as a daily reality.

Everyone here, from Design and Product to Engineering and our CEO, uses AI every day to prototype, explore ideas, and ship faster. We are investing deeply to make AI part of our foundation.

What That Looks Like

• Access from day one. Every engineer and leader gets the best tools available — Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and more.
• AI Champions across teams. Dedicated experts embedded in teams to pair, unblock, and help you move faster with AI agents.
• A codebase built for agents. Structured AGENTS.md files, curated skills, and clean patterns so AI agents can work effectively alongside engineers.
• Serious investment in DevX. We continuously improve our developer tooling so testing, prototyping, and working with agents is seamless.
• Dedicated AI days. Every six weeks, Engineering, Product, and Design teams get focused time to ship real features using AI tools and push boundaries.
  
  

AI isn’t something we experiment with occasionally. It’s how we build.

This role is primarily based in our Prague or Brno office with an office-centric hybrid schedule.

We’re hiring a Senior Staff Engineer (L5) with deep frontend expertise who can architect the future of our product experience and frontend platform. This person operates at the intersection of multi-year business strategy and technical execution, shaping the frontend architecture and platform capabilities that enable Productboard to scale. They are a multiplier of Staff Engineers, a trusted partner to senior leadership, and a pragmatic technical leader who creates clarity, reduces complexity, and drives cross-team leverage through high-impact technical strategy.

On a typical day, you will…

As a Senior Staff Engineer, You’ll Operate At The Intersection Of Long-term Product Strategy And Technical Reality, Using Your Frontend Expertise To Shape How We Build And Evolve Productboard At Scale. A “day” Might Look Like

• Translate strategy into architecture. Partner with Staff Engineers and Engineering and Product Leaders to turn multi-year goals into a clear technical roadmap — especially where the frontend architecture is a key constraint or differentiator.
• Design the future of our frontend platform. Architect and evolve our core frontend systems: UI infrastructure, design system and component ecosystem, state/data patterns, performance and observability strategy, and developer workflows.
• Create leverage across teams. Build reusable patterns, libraries, and platform capabilities that enable dozens of engineers to ship safely and quickly — raising the baseline for quality, usability, and iteration speed.
• Lead decisions through clarity. Write and evangelize crisp RFCs / ADRs and technical narratives that make trade-offs clear, align stakeholders quickly, and reduce ambiguity across teams.
• Guide high-stakes execution. Step into the most critical and complex cross-team initiatives — shaping direction, unblocking progress, and ensuring solutions remain pragmatic and durable.
• Drive modernization of legacy constraints. Lead the technical evolution away from painful legacy frontend systems (e.g., fragmented patterns, scaling bottlenecks, brittle UI foundations), building buy-in and staging the migration so value continues flowing.
• Multiply Staff Engineers. Mentor and grow L4 engineers — not just with feedback, but by delegating strategic scope, shaping their thinking, and helping them become leaders of major technical domains.
• Champion customer value. Stay grounded in the user experience: ensure frontend architecture choices increase product velocity and elevate usability, reliability, performance, and craft.
  
  

About You

We’re looking for a Senior Staff Engineer who pairs deep frontend mastery with strategic technical leadership — someone who can define long-term direction and enable teams to execute effectively today.

You Are a Strong Match If You

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• Think in systems and horizons. You naturally operate in a 1–3 year horizon, spotting strategic risks and opportunities and shaping a roadmap that makes the company’s biggest bets technically possible.
• Have exceptional frontend technical depth. You bring expert-level understanding of modern frontend architecture and platform design — from performance and rendering strategies, to state management, modularity, design systems, dependency boundaries, and build tooling.
• Create leverage, not dependency. Your instinct is to make others faster and more successful through patterns, tooling, and shared platforms — not by becoming a bottleneck.
• Communicate with radical clarity. You can translate complex engineering trade-offs into narratives leaders can act on, and can write short, high-leverage docs that drive alignment quickly.
• Make pragmatic trade-offs. You’re opinionated, but not dogmatic. You seek the simplest path to meaningful value, and you know when to build durable foundations vs. when to iterate and learn.
• Own outcomes. You don’t just “deliver a solution” — you take responsibility for the real-world impact of your decisions across product metrics, team velocity, and system health.
• Raise the bar through craft. You care deeply about quality, usability, and maintainability, and you lead by example — shaping engineering practices and standards across teams.
• Multiply other technical leaders. You have experience mentoring Staff Engineers and helping them grow their influence, scope, and judgment.
  
  

Bonus Points If You

• Have led a design system / component platform at scale, including governance and adoption.
• Have driven frontend performance strategy across a large product surface.
• Have successfully modernized legacy frontend architecture while keeping product delivery moving.
• Have experience shaping engineering strategy with Directors / VPs and influencing a broader organization.
  
  

You Can Look Forward To The Following Benefits

• Stock options
• MacBook
• Budget for online courses & books
• 5 weeks of vacation + sick days
• 1 Volunteer Day per year for you to help causes close to your heart
• Carrot Fertility Benefits
• Free snacks, drinks, and yummy catered lunches
• MultiSport card to access sports facilities
• Flexible working hours and home office
• Parental benefits
• Language lessons

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• Mental Wellness Program to support your well-being and self-care
• Hone – Live, interactive learning programs for managers, leaders, and teams
  
  

Relocation Opportunities

If joining us means making a move, we’re here to help make that transition easier.

We currently support relocation for EU citizens who are relocating to Prague to work for Productboard's Product Engineering organization

Relocation Support

We offer a one-time relocation bonus ranging from $6,000 to $13,000 USD, depending on your personal situation, whether you’re moving on your own or with a partner or family.

This bonus is intended to help offset moving expenses and support your transition into your new city. While it may not cover every cost, it provides meaningful financial support as you get settled.

If you’re thinking about relocating and want to explore what this could look like for you, we’d be happy to have that conversation.

About Productboard

At Productboard, we’re on a mission to help product teams build exceptional products with clarity and confidence. As the leading intelligent product management platform, we empower over 4,000 companies, including Salesforce, SAP, Autodesk, and Kroger, to understand what customers need, prioritize what to build next, and align everyone around a shared roadmap.

Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Prague and Brno, Czechia, we’re backed by some of the world’s most respected investors, including Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Tiger Global, and Dragoneer.

We’re proud to be consistently recognized as one of the best places to work by BuiltIn and Comparably, and to count ourselves among the world’s leading unicorn companies. Well-funded and financially disciplined, we have the stability and runway to build boldly for the long term.

Over the past few years, we’ve rearchitected our platform from the ground up to serve enterprise scale and set the foundation for the next era of product management. Now we’re entering an exciting new phase with Productboard Spark, our AI-first, agentic experience that transforms how product teams work. Spark is a true collaborator that deeply understands your product context, company strategy, and customer needs, helping teams move faster and make smarter, more confident decisions.

Join us as we build the future of product management.

About Our Culture

Imagine working in a place where everything matters — most importantly, you. At Productboard, values aren’t just something we like to talk about, they’re something we live and breathe. We believe in creating a work environment where:

• People feel empowered, supported, and included
• Trust and transparency are built into the way we work
• Creativity, curiosity, and continuous improvement are encouraged and nurtured every day
  
  

Forming our company values was a group effort, with every employee allowed to contribute. From profit-sharing initiatives, like stock options, to open calendars and communication, we don’t waste time on politics or ego. We champion openness by sharing our goals, successes, and failures.

Join colleagues who are passionate about what they do. Team members who are invested in their work environment, and the future of Productboard. Help shape our company, culture, and product!

Check out our LinkedIn Life page, or listen to our People of Productboard podcast for a real feel of what life is like at Productboard.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and champion equity. We aim to help people from all backgrounds, cultures, and groups realize their full potential at Productboard. We do not tolerate any discrimination or harassment based on gender identity, race, color, religion, age, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other bias covered by appropriate law. All aspects of employment, including hiring, training, promotion, and terminations, are based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are committed to an inclusive hiring process and provide all candidates with equal opportunity to demonstrate their abilities. Togetherness is one of our core values, and our Diversity Council helps to ensure that we uphold the values of authenticity, humanity, and diversity to create an environment where every person matters. We are committed to leading by example to drive societal change.