How monday.com's 120-person design team manages work across 6 locations
monday.com’s 120-person, six-location design team shows how a distributed SaaS org can stay aligned when communication becomes a system, not an afterthought.
Once 120 monday.com designers are spread across six locations, casual coordination stops scaling. monday.com addresses that problem in a remote-work post on how the team manages its product design process and in the monday Design Blog post “Communication is key – the product design process at monday.com.”
What 120 designers across six locations really changes
A 120-person team cannot rely on hallway feedback, ad hoc reviews, or a single office rhythm to keep products moving, especially inside a company built around collaboration software and fast feature delivery. At that size, communication has to be part of the design system itself, alongside the work of shaping screens, flows, and product decisions.
A monday Design Blog post is titled “Communication is key – the product design process at monday.com.” For designers, product managers, and engineers inside monday.com, design work also has to stay legible across locations, roles, and time zones.
Why the company keeps returning to distributed work
Smashing Magazine published “Making Distributed Product Teams Work More Efficiently With monday.com” in 2018. monday.com has treated distributed collaboration as a serious workplace problem for years.
Another monday Design Blog post, “How design helped monday.com employees celebrate life events,” includes the author writing that they felt overwhelmed by the sheer number of people when joining as a product designer. The challenge was not only shipping work, but staying oriented inside a growing company.
How monday.com’s footprint shapes the way design work has to run
monday.com’s company footprint explains why a six-location design model makes sense. On LinkedIn, monday.com lists itself as a software development company in Tel Aviv, Israel, with 1,001 to 5,000 employees, while 4dayweek.io places its global headcount at more than 2,500 employees. The company also opened a North American headquarters in New York City at 225 Park Avenue South in 2022, extending a base that already included Israel and other distributed locations.
When a company is anchored in Tel Aviv but also building a major presence in New York City, product decisions have to travel cleanly between offices. The design group has to keep reviewers, collaborators, and stakeholders aligned without turning every decision into a meeting.
Inside a SaaS company building an AI work platform
Its careers page uses the tagline “Shape how the world works,” and monday.com currently markets the product as an AI work platform where people, workflows, and AI agents work together on one platform. In that kind of product environment, design carries outsized weight because clarity and usability are part of the product promise itself.
For engineers and product managers inside monday.com, the design process is therefore tied directly to adoption. A platform that helps teams manage workflows has to be easy to understand across roles and offices, which means product design is not only about visual polish. It is about how fast a feature can be understood, how well a flow fits real work, and how confidently teams can launch without introducing friction for users.
The distributed design model also matters to sales teams. When the product story is built around simplicity, cross-functional coordination inside the company has to reinforce that same promise. A large, multi-office design organization has to produce work that holds together across product surfaces, because inconsistency inside the product quickly becomes inconsistency in the customer experience.
The practical lesson for distributed product teams
If a design team is large and spread across six locations, communication cannot be informal. It has to be baked into how work moves from idea to iteration to launch. monday.com has kept returning to distributed work in its remote-work blog, its design blog, and the 2018 Smashing Magazine feature.
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