Principal Product Designer

2 Months ago • 8 Years +
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SummaryBy Outscal

Lead UX/UI design for a mobile app portfolio, manage freelancers, conduct user research, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. 8+ years of experience required.
Inkitt is building the Disney of the 21st Century, standing at the forefront of technology and entertainment. Leveraging AI and predictive algorithms, Inkitt discovers unknown stories and turns them into blockbuster hits, producing a new $1M ebook every 4 weeks and selling directly to consumers through its Galatea app. Inkitt has become the 11th most bestseller-generating publisher in the world, boasting a 40x higher hit-rate than traditional publishers. Recently raising a Series C and backed by some of the top VC’s such as: Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA Ventures, our recent expansion into GalateaTV is only the beginning of our journey to becoming the next-gen entertainment powerhouse.

What You’ll Do:

    • Lead the design of new features and updates across our mobile app portfolio, ensuring a best in class user experience
    • Hire and lead a team of freelancers overseeing creative direction, project allocation and performance
    • Lead the redesign of our Galatea App, craft intuitive and delightful user experiences that our readers will love
    • Conduct user research to understand our audience's needs and behaviors, translating insights into design decisions
    • Perform competitive analysis and research on winning User Flows that we can adapt and iterate
    • Develop and maintain design wireframes, user flows, and interactive prototypes
    • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and our creative team, to ensure design vision is executed accurately
    • Utilize and contribute to the design system, ensuring consistency across all products
    • Stay abreast of UX trends and look for creative ideas and inspiration in parallel analogous worlds
    • Deeply understand our authors and readers using data and user interviews to iterate and refine UX and Designs

What You'll Bring:

    • 8+ years of experience in UX/UI design, specifically for mobile applications
    • BS or MS in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, or additional relevant experience
    • Experience designing various, mobile application products for millions of b2c users
    • Experience working in an agile environment with fellow design, product, engineering, and insights leaders
    • Experience communicating design decisions with fellow designers, engineers, product managers, and senior stakeholders alike
    • Experience data-informed product design and development
    • Experience designing for Android and iOS products as well as responsive Web Sites
    • Fluent with different level of prototyping tools such as Invision, Figma, Whimsical or Flinto
    • Track record of rapidly producing multiple concepts and prototypes and have an understanding of when deeper exploration and research is warranted and when it's best to change paths and try another approach
    • Defined or improved product design processes within your organization
    • Built or significantly contributed to a product's design system and understand their value
    • Understand the value of stripping a design back and testing individual effects
The annual base salary range for this position is $120,000—$400,000 USD. Compensation will be determined by skill level, proficiencies, and experience.

At Inkitt, we strive to build a company culture and provide employment opportunities based on diversity and inclusion. We believe every author should have an equal opportunity to succeed, as should our team members. As a growing team from 20+ countries, we welcome everyone to apply. 

We look forward to hearing from you!

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$120.0K - $400.0K/yr (Outscal est.)
$260.0K/yr avg.
San Francisco, California, United States

About The Company

We believe every author should have an equal opportunity to succeed. Therefore, our mission is to discover hidden talents and turn them into globally successful authors.


Inkitt is a pioneer at the forefront of Data Driven Publishing. Using an analytic and objective approach, we’ve discovered hundreds of talented authors around the world with over 50% of our published authors achieving $100,000+ in sales. We have forever changed the traditional publishing model by inventing an algorithm which analyzes users' reading behavior to identify hits, in turn removing subjectivity from the equation. This gives Inkitt the unique ability to discover hidden talents that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.


Hits that are identified by our algorithm, are then licensed to and distributed on our Galatea app where we systematically generate blockbusters by A/B testing the content of our stories. This process is our own unique creation, and something which has never before been done in the entertainment industry. 


At present, we are an international team of 85 passionate and dedicated inventors and entrepreneurs and we are growing quickly. We are proud that our mission has persuaded early investors in Google and Spotify to back us, as well as attracted talents from Netflix, Activision Blizzard, DeliveryHero, Babbel, and N26 to join us.


We invent new solutions to problems we encounter, as opposed to simply iterating upon existing solutions. 


Join us to build the Disney of the 21st Century!


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