Sr. Product Designer

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll be instrumental in shaping the current and future direction of the Flipboard product. You will work among a world-class team of digital leaders to solve challenges of all kinds. This position will report to our Design Director.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, our Flipboard team went 100% remote. This role can be 100% remote from anywhere in the continental US or Canada during and post-pandemic.

Our Senior Product Designer:

• Leads the solution of particular product areas, connecting those to the broader product vision
• Contributes projects to the roadmap, creating them based on user needs
• Begins going beyond best practices, and starts uncovering novel, unexpected, but still workable solutions
• Leans heavier into UX (as opposed to only UI) solutions
• Can speak for their cross-functional team; mentors other designers
• Knows the best ways to solve design problems and can execute on most of them rapidly
• Is competent on multiple clients (iOS, Android, web), expert in at least one
• Works autonomously on projects with minimal supervision
• Sets timetables and milestones for their work
• Anticipates issues and works to resolve them

We’d love to hear from you if:

• You are passionate about design and its ability to create a lasting impact in the world
• You create intuitive, human-centric experiences on the web, iOS, and Android
• You collaboratively work alongside your engineering, product, editorial, and marketing counterparts to solve key user problems
• You leverage qualitative and quantitative data to guide design decisions, analyze results and iterate
• Have delivered successful work at the scope of ‘features’.

Desired Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience
• BS or BA in a four-year design program or equivalent work experience
• Strong portfolio of design work demonstrating deep experience in end-to-end product design on products at varying points of the product life-cycle
• Worked with design systems

Benefits & Perks

• Our benefits include vision, dental, life, and health insurance, plus 401K with a company contribution
• Flexible hours and generous ‘out of office time’ for holidays, vacations, sick leave, relaxation & wellness, personal and family needs
• Subsidized commuter programs (post-pandemic)
• Team celebrations: company anniversaries, birthdays, Thanksgiving, weddings/babies — you name it, we celebrate it!