Staff Designer, Product Creative

1 Week ago • 7 Years + • $194,600 PA - $272,400 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Staff Product Designer will be responsible for driving constant improvements to the look and feel across Reddit’s consumer apps and websites. They will create systems and patterns for other internal teams and designers to apply in their feature work with the goal of simplifying Reddit for all of our users. Responsibilities include collaborating on the design system, improving UX globally by ensuring brand consistency, envisioning the future visual evolution of Reddit, developing visual sub-brands, leading design efforts, and giving constructive feedback. This role requires close collaboration with other designers, engineers, and researchers to create a world-class visual brand for Reddit’s user interfaces.
Must have:
  • 7+ years of product and visual design experience
  • 2+ years of recent experience as a UI/Visual/Product Designer
  • Strong portfolio showcasing UI design, motion and brand-related work
  • Experience shepherding a principles-driven design process
  • Excellent writing, presentation, and storytelling skills
  • Experience creating and delivering specs to engineers
  • Keen understanding of post-production workflows
  • Expertise in design software like Figma, Adobe Creative Suite
Good to have:
  • Experience building and enforcing design systems
  • Experience working on a social or consumer platform
  • Skill in creating 2D and 3D visual assets, illustrations, and animations
Perks:
  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k Match
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
  • Generous paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Volunteer time off

Job Details

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Reddit has a flexible first workforce! If you happen to live close to our physical office location our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely from the United States.

The Product Creative team designs all the branded visuals and global styles that appear on Reddit including icons, illustrations, animations and many aspects of the user interface. We are looking for a Staff Product Designer with strong skills in visual branding in products, UX thinking and experience solving complex problems at scale to join the Product Creative team.

This hybrid visual/product designer position will be among the most brand- and visually-focused UX roles at Reddit. As a member of this team, you will be responsible for driving constant improvements to the look and feel across Reddit’s consumer apps and websites. You will create systems and patterns for other internal teams and designers to apply in their feature work with the goal of simplifying Reddit for all of our users. Our team is incredibly cross-functional and requires close collaboration with other designers across the UX organization as well as Content Designers, Software Engineers, UX Researchers and Brand/Marketing designers whose collective goal is to create a world-class visual brand for Reddit’s user interfaces.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate on the design system, frameworks and patterns that define the Reddit brand on our platform while balancing designer needs with system complexity.
  • Improve UX globally by ensuring brand consistency across the consumer platform.
  • Envision the future visual evolution of Reddit and help plan the roadmap to get there.
  • Develop distinct visual sub-brands for special or seasonal experiences that still feel related to the core Reddit brand.
  • Drive consensus across diverse teams through effective exploration, communication, and presentation to design peers and senior leadership.
  • Lead design efforts from early concepting through final execution, focusing on both strategy and detailed craft.
  • Give constructive feedback in design reviews to push the quality and vision of the work.
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Required Qualifications:

  • 7+ years professional work experience between both product and visual design
  • 2+ years of recent experience working as a UI /Visual or Product Designer at a consumer tech company
  • A strong portfolio showcasing pixel-perfect UI design and motion, product design, systematic thinking and brand-related work including illustration, 3D, animation.
  • Experience shepherding a principles-driven design process through multiple teams and stakeholders.
  • Excellent writing, presentation, and storytelling skills that explain and advocate for design decisions clearly across teams.
  • Experience creating and delivering specs to engineers and an understanding of the practical application of a design or document when it comes to collaborating with technical teams
  • Keen understanding of post-production workflows.
  • Expertise in design software, including Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and optionally 3D tools such as Blender, Cinema 4D, or similar.
  • A passion for design systems, Reddit’s mission and pushing the boundaries of brand and product integration.

Bonus Points:

  • Experience building and enforcing design systems.
  • Experience working on a social or consumer platform with 9-digit userbase and global, multicultural reach.
  • Skill in concepting, creating, and iterating on 2D and 3D visual assets, illustrations, animations, and motion graphics that bring brands to life in unique and engaging ways.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k Match
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
  • Generous paid Parental Leave  
  • Paid Volunteer time off

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