Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe, enabling users to buy, sell, and discover various products. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer to focus on buyer-facing experiences in Discovery, particularly around Ads and Notifications, contributing to the design of intuitive user experiences and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Design thoughtful, intuitive user experiences across buyer discovery surfaces on mobile and web
- Contribute to the Messaging Platform that bring buyers back at the right moment with relevant, engaging content
- Help shape Ad Experiences within discovery surfaces in ways that balance buyer relevance, seller value, and overall ecosystem health
- Create flows, mocks, prototypes, and polished UI that clearly communicate design intent
- Partner closely with product, engineering, data, and design peers to explore ideas, test hypotheses, and improve the user experience
- Participate in critiques and feedback loops, and iterate quickly based on learnings
- Sweat the details while keeping sight of the broader user and business goals
Skills
- 5+ years of experience designing digital products
- Strong visual and interaction design fundamentals
- A portfolio that shows craft, clarity of thinking, and care for the end-to-end user experience
- Curiosity about how design can support both user needs and business outcomes
- Excitement to work on consumer-facing product experiences with high visibility and lots of iteration
- Comfort collaborating with product managers, engineers, and other designers
- A willingness to learn quickly, ask good questions, and incorporate feedback
- Strong communication skills in both verbal and written form
- High attention to detail and a desire to keep refining until the work feels right
- Experience designing consumer products, marketplaces, feeds, messaging, or notification experiences
- Interest in personalization, discovery systems, recommendations, or growth-oriented product work
- Excitement for live commerce, collecting, or online communities
Benefits
- Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
- Work From Home Support + Home office setup allowance + Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
- Care benefits + Monthly allowance for wellness + Annual allowance towards Childcare + Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
- Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
- Monthly allowance to dogfood the app + All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).
- Parental Leave + 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.
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