About this role

Faire is a company invested in the importance of design—as a Staff Product Designer, you’ll join a tight-knit, collaborative team of designers who care deeply about creating beautiful and intuitive experiences. Our team is at the center of representing and solving impactful problems for our customers, designing experiences for the thousands of independent retailers and maker brands growing their businesses in our marketplace.

In this role, you’ll help shape Faire’s product, working with team members across research, engineering, product, data, and analytics. You'll embed in the Faire Direct Pod within the Retailer Growth Pillar, driving the strategic and experience evolution of our referral program focused on enabling & motivating brands and retailers to connect on our marketplace. As a Staff Product Designer, you'll strive to understand our customers’ challenges, and craft vision, strategy, and experiences that evolve our marketplace forward, while driving towards our key business goals.

We’re looking for team members that excel across the entire product development lifecycle, care deeply about the details, have a strong track-record of shipping high-quality experiences, come with a growth mindset, and bring a genuine desire to learn about our customers.

We're looking for candidates open to working in San Francisco, CA, or New York City, NY.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with partners across product, engineering, and data to define, build, and release new products and features. 
• Construct user flows, wireframes, and prototypes that effectively communicate design concepts for validation.
• Develop and deliver well-documented, high-fidelity visuals that accurately represent Faire’s brand and design system standards.
• Write UX content that helps customers accomplish their goals on Faire
• Design user-centric, engaging content to increase usability, inform, and help customer’s accomplish their goals on Faire
• Participate in and/or lead user interviews and research to better understand customer needs.
• Drive strategic thinking into product features and roadmap.
• Mentor and guide team members, helping them develop and grow.
• Contribute to and positively shape the design team’s culture through collaboration, feedback, and process iteration.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing digital products and systems. Your previous work demonstrates an attention to detail and high quality visual, UX, systems design, and content design. 
• Passion for the details. You have experience delivering high quality experiences, and doing what it takes to get the details right.
• Great communication skills. You present design decisions and processes clearly and confidently, regardless of audience.
• A collaborative approach. You’re a great partner to other designers and your cross-functional teammates.
• A growth-mindset. You’re open and receptive to feedback, and can adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment.
• A sense of humor. We spend a lot of time together—sharing gifs and laughing over zoom keeps us energized and inspired throughout the day.

We value candidates that bring a range of experience from different industries and a variety of creative influences. If you’re a maker or retailer yourself and can bring first-hand experience and empathy for the small business and entrepreneurial journey, tell us your story!

Salary Range

California / New York: the pay range for this role is $195,500 - $269,000 per year. 

This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.