Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join Reddit's Product Creative team as a Senior Product Designer! This hybrid visual/product design role focuses on enhancing Reddit's brand and visual appeal across its consumer apps and websites. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, creating design systems and patterns for consistent branding. Responsibilities include improving UX globally, envisioning Reddit's visual future, and developing sub-brands for special events. The ideal candidate possesses 6+ years of experience in product and visual design, a strong portfolio, and excellent communication skills. Reddit offers a flexible work environment, competitive compensation, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience between both product and visual design, ideally in a tech company or agency
• A strong portfolio showcasing highly crafted UI design, product design, systematic thinking and brand-related work potentially including 2D, 3D, animation or illustration
• Strong writing, presentation, and storytelling skills that can explain design decisions clearly and push for them across teams
• Experience designing successfully for multiple brands simultaneously as typically happens in design agencies
• Proven bulletproof craft and execution across different media, including static and motion design, with a keen understanding of post-production workflows
• A passion for design systems, Reddit’s mission and pushing the boundaries of brand and product integration
• Humble, curious, and motivated to ship the best product
• Expertise in design software, including Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and optionally 3D tools such as Blender, Cinema 4D, or similar

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on the design system, frameworks and patterns that define the Reddit brand on our platform while balancing designer needs with system complexity
• Improve UX globally by enforcing design system usage and ensuring brand consistency across the consumer platform
• Envision the future visual evolution of Reddit and help plan the roadmap to get there
• Develop distinct visual sub-brands for special or seasonal experiences that still feel related to the core Reddit brand
• Drive consensus across diverse teams through effective exploration, communication, and presentation to design peers and senior leadership
• Lead design efforts from early concepting through final execution, focusing on both strategy and detailed craft
• Give constructive feedback in design reviews to push the quality and vision of the work

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and enforcing design systems
• Experience working on a social or consumer platform with 9-digit userbase and global, multicultural reach
• Skill in concepting, creating, and iterating on 2D and 3D visual assets, illustrations, animations, and motion graphics that bring brands to life in unique and engaging ways

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) program with employer match
• Generous time off for vacation
• Parental leave