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2 months ago

Product Designer

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Last checked: 3 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Product Designer with engineering-oriented focus, comfortable implementing UI in code, adept at leveraging LLMs for prototyping and production, and able to design across dashboards, mobile and content surfaces while balancing trade-offs in a startup environment.

Location: San Francisco, New York

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)

Key Responsibilities

•Rapidly build context about disparate product areas, community dynamics, and industry norms in any domains, from print media to podcasting to online social systems
•Identify high-leverage opportunities for your team and help make their pursuit practicable through rigorous path-conception, batch-sizing, staging, and go to market planning
•Design beautiful, usable, scalable interfaces and flows for a wide range of product zones (from profiles to CRM / analytics, publication aesthetics to moderation systems, email layouts to interactive content actions, and so much more)
•Think holistically about the second-order effects on Substack as a product system; balance user groups, weigh trade-offs, and pragmatically find solutions which achieve the best outcomes possible given various constraints
•Find ways to help creators and audiences build long-lasting, rewarding, and healthy relationships; empower audience members to become contributors and creators

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 215,000 annually

Key Requirements

•All product design applications must link to or include a portfolio, and the portfolio should demonstrate ability to craft design solutions in relevant product areas.
•3 years of experience designing software; experience with social networks, content networks, or content systems, or any experience building software interfaces.
•High degree of competence with Figma.
•High tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity in a fast-moving startup environment.
•Interest in both independence and collaboration, capable of working as a team player and also independently when needed.

Experience:3+ yearsSocial networksContent networksContent systems

Skills:Front-endDesignCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving

Tech Stack:TypeScriptReactSwiftUILLMsFigmaFrontendWeb

Company Brief

Substack

Provides a platform for writers to publish subscription-based newsletters, manage paid subscriptions, and connect directly with readers through email and web publishing tools.

Industry: Publishing

Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)

Growth: Growth Stage Startup

Funding: Series A

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2017

Website LinkedIn

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Substack

2 months ago

Product Designer

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 3 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: San Francisco, New York

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)

Key Responsibilities

•Rapidly build context about disparate product areas, community dynamics, and industry norms in any domains, from print media to podcasting to online social systems
•Identify high-leverage opportunities for your team and help make their pursuit practicable through rigorous path-conception, batch-sizing, staging, and go to market planning
•Design beautiful, usable, scalable interfaces and flows for a wide range of product zones (from profiles to CRM / analytics, publication aesthetics to moderation systems, email layouts to interactive content actions, and so much more)
•Think holistically about the second-order effects on Substack as a product system; balance user groups, weigh trade-offs, and pragmatically find solutions which achieve the best outcomes possible given various constraints
•Find ways to help creators and audiences build long-lasting, rewarding, and healthy relationships; empower audience members to become contributors and creators

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 215,000 annually

Key Requirements

•All product design applications must link to or include a portfolio, and the portfolio should demonstrate ability to craft design solutions in relevant product areas.
•3 years of experience designing software; experience with social networks, content networks, or content systems, or any experience building software interfaces.
•High degree of competence with Figma.
•High tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity in a fast-moving startup environment.
•Interest in both independence and collaboration, capable of working as a team player and also independently when needed.

Experience:3+ yearsSocial networksContent networksContent systems

Skills:Front-endDesignCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving

Tech Stack:TypeScriptReactSwiftUILLMsFigmaFrontendWeb

Company Brief

Substack

Provides a platform for writers to publish subscription-based newsletters, manage paid subscriptions, and connect directly with readers through email and web publishing tools.

Industry: Publishing

Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)

Growth: Growth Stage Startup

Funding: Series A

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2017

Website LinkedIn