Substack is hiring a
Enterprise Product Designer

Summary

Join Substack's team as a Product Design role in a company-in-a-company setup. You'll be responsible for designing interfaces and flows for various product zones, thinking holistically about the platform's second-order effects, and empowering creators and audiences to build long-lasting relationships.

Requirements

• All product design applications must link to or include a portfolio
• 2 years of experience designing software; we're especially keen to see experience with social networks; content networks; or content systems or products of various kinds
• High degree of competence with Figma
• High tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity
• Interest in both independence and collaboration

Responsibilities

• Rapidly build context about disparate product areas, community dynamics, and industry norms in any domains
• Identify high-leverage opportunities for your team and help make their pursuit practicable through rigorous path-conception, batch-sizing, staging, and go to market planning
• Design beautiful, usable, scalable interfaces and flows for a wide range of product zones
• Think holistically about the second-order effects on Substack as a product system; balance user groups, weigh trade-offs, and pragmatically find solutions which achieve the best outcomes possible given various constraints
• Find ways to help creators and audiences build long-lasting, rewarding, and healthy relationships; empower audience members to become contributors and creators
• Help diversify the kinds of creators Substack supports, through novel media type support, alternative reader experiences, supporting outreach programs, and more
• Shape the culture and processes of Design at Substack

Preferred Qualifications

• Preference for technical abilities. While it's not a requirement, we'll be very excited to see candidates who can code
• Preference for SF Bay Area based. Living near our San Francisco HQ means being able to work directly with the CEO and others in-office