Staff Product Designer at Demand.io - Demand.io｜Meet.jobs

Community. Innovation. Decentralization.

 

These are our core values. We weave them deeply into the fabric of our products. We’re a web3 shopping network, a media lab, and major e-commerce player rolled in one. Fundamentally, we conceive, build and scale peer-to-peer shopping applications that help people shop smarter and to find and acquire the things they’ll love.

 

Demand.io is a startup studio and decentralized e-commerce network - we own and operate leading properties such as SimplyCodes (simplycodes.com), the first truly community-powered couponing utility, driven by crypto and blockchain, Knoji (knoji.com), our popular legacy shopping discussion platform undergoing a re-imagination as a web3-driven shopping community with shared incentives, and Vector (vector.xyz, in development), an upcoming web3 music discovery service focused on NFT-enabled collaboration and monetization among musicians and visual creatives.

 

We’re looking for a passionate, talented, artistic yet analytical product designer to join us as our first design hire under our VP of Product. This will be a crucial head of design role as you’ll set the direction, vision and lead execution for UI / UX design across our portfolio of apps and new services in incubation. In this role, you’ll face a broad range of strategic design challenges spanning tokenized community design, gamification, crowdsourcing, NFT and digital asset e-commerce and social shopping patterns across web, mobile, extension and voice interaction points. You’ll have significant autonomy to ideate and create and deliver end-to-end design frameworks and systems to solve high-level, strategic user problems and product goals.

 

A little more about us. We’re a lean team of passionate technologists and product leaders working as a close-knit group to build new, innovative services that make everyday shopping tasks easier for consumers. With 60 employees worldwide and a small senior leadership team based at our headquarters in West LA, we operate a network of apps that serve millions of users and drive over a billion dollars of e-commerce transaction volume annually. We run as an equity partnership, offering outsize compensation packages through profit-sharing to senior management. Creating strongly aligned incentives for our employees, stakeholders and communities has been critical to our success - it’s part of our DNA.

 

This is an in-person leadership role based in our West LA headquarters. While most of our global team is 100% remote, our executive and leadership roles are primarily in-person roles based in our LA innovation hub. While we embrace overall flexibility in our day-to-day schedules, we do not explicitly lean into a remote or primarily remote culture. Our creative workspace is kinetic, energetic and is central to our ability to brainstorm, ideate, experiment and collaborate as a team. We welcome applicants seeking in-person roles and who can commute to the West LA / Brentwood area.

 

What you’ll do:

 

• Lead design from discovery to implementation across key problem spaces for our different apps (gamification, creation tools, search, social engagement, deals/coupons, social tokens and NFTs, etc.).

 

• Transform complex product challenges into well-articulated, intuitive user journeys that shape a clear path for our users to their goals.

 

• Craft user experiences that engage customers cross-platform from web to mobile app to browser extension and beyond.

 

• Design new product concepts and rapidly prototype to field test with end users. Set the bar high for design quality while helping the product team ship features with pace.

 

• Develop and guide design standards for overall experience — far beyond visual — and collaborate with engineering to apply these at scale.

 

• Contribute to and maintain our design system in an effort to influence quality and efficiency of our product development.

 

• Seek the voice of our end customers through continuous research and testing, informing the product roadmap. Lead design sprints to generate diverse ideas from stakeholders and expedite decision making.

 

• Build a deep understanding of our different properties and their respective customers, tailoring the brand voice and experience to each.

 

 

About you:

• 5+ years of experience as a product or experience designer.

 

• Outstanding UX capabilities and strong visual design competency working in mobile-centric environments.

 

• Experience conducting user research and familiarity with research methods a plus.

 

• A track record of shipping phenomenal consumer-facing experiences → extending across different platforms including web, iOS, Android and browser extensions.

 

• Proficient in Figma, Sketch, InVision Studio/DSM and other design tools.

 

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills when communicating design to both technical and non-technical team members.

 

• Strategic thinker with the ability to blend user, business and technical considerations into comprehensive design solutions.

 

• Self-starter attitude with ambition to grow. Looking for an environment where you can do your best work and be inspired by those around you.

 

• UX writing and/or interaction design experience a plus but not required.

 

About the job:

 

• Annual compensation: ~$250K, includes base and monthly profit-sharing (~$225K base plus ~25K profit-sharing bonus in first year with annual increases).

 

• Stock options: 0.20% to 0.40% initial grant

 

• Next-generation office campus with ideation, brainstorming and recreation facilities and a dedicated product design studio and a creator studio / filming space. Exquisite design with sweeping views of the ocean to downtown LA.

 

• All meals provided free daily, fully stocked kitchen with free food, snacks, coffee and drinks.

 

• Regular team building events and activities.

 

• Comprehensive health coverage (executive PPO, HMO options), dental, vision coverage, paid 100% for all your dependents.

 

• Sponsorship for all ongoing education, courses, books and professional certifications.

 

• 401K

 

• Flexible, high trust work culture. Unlimited PTO.

 

Demand.io design culture. Demand.io is looking to set the bar for exceptional design and user experience. We’re a product-led company where every team member is applying design thinking to set our apps apart. Building experiences powered by community means you spent a lot of time focused on how you enable members to create and contribute. This mandates creative thinking and an emphasis on building products that are fun, engaging and delightful through distinctive style and interactivity. While you will join the team as the first product designer, you’ll collaborate closely with our VP of Product who has a design background and has lead multi-faceted design teams.

 

**Commitment to diversity, equity & inclusion.* Demand.io believes diversity, equity and inclusion are paramount to building a meaningful company and culture. We’re committed to cultivating a safe and open environment for all voices to contribute.*

 

Demand.io focuses on Mobile, E-Commerce, Mobile Commerce, Social Commerce, and Online Shopping. Their company has offices in Los Angeles. They have a small team that's between 11-50 employees.

 

You can view their website at https://demand.io or find them on Twitter, Facebook, and