Senior Product Designer, Scribd

Growth, Everand & Fable

$106-194k

Salary dependent on location. In Canada, the reasonably expected salary range is between $136,500 CAD [minimum salary in our lowest geographic market] to $174,000 CAD [maximum salary in our highest geographic market]. Plus equity

Senior and Expert level

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E-book and audiobook subscription service

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E-book and audiobook subscription service

201-500 employees

B2CLearningEntertainmentSocial

Be an early applicant

$106-194k

Senior and Expert level

Austin

Boston

Chicago

Denver

Los Angeles

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Toronto

Vancouver

201-500 employees

B2CLearningEntertainmentSocial

Company mission

To revolutionize the way the world reads and learns.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

If you love books, care about the details that make a paywall feel like an invitation, and get a little thrill when a test result lands, you'll have a lot of fun here
You have 5+ years of product design experience, with real time spent on growth, monetization, or subscription products
Your visual craft stands out, your interaction design is just as solid, and you know how to get to great quickly
You've shipped experiments that moved conversion, activation, retention, and/or revenue, and you know why they worked
You think in journeys, not screens, and you help define the path forward when it isn't clear
You use AI daily to explore, prototype, and understand, build workflows others can reuse, and hold its output to the same bar as your own work
You love reading, and you have opinions about how and why people discover, share, and stick with books
You ground decisions in data, research, and customer insight, and can make the case for them with both evidence and taste
Bonus: motion design, consumer subscription apps, mobile, or community and social products

What the job involves

We're hiring a Senior Product Designer to drive growth across Everand and Fable
Everand and Fable are the heart of Scribd's Premium business, reaching more than 1.4 million readers every month. Nobody's cracked what reading looks like when your library and your book club live in the same place. That's the opportunity, and you'd help define it
Growth here means turning a curious reader into an engaged member of the community, a free user into a long-term subscriber, and a casual subscriber into someone who can't imagine reading without us
You'll design the experiences across that journey, working closely with Product, Research, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to spot opportunities, run experiments, and ship work that moves real numbers
Design has a real voice here. At this level, you'll have the opportunity to lead vision and strategy across growth and lifecycle, and the people who thrive are the ones who take the reins and advocate for their POV
You'll report to our Director of Product Design and work alongside 6 Premium product and brand designers
Own the moments that turn readers into subscribers across app, web, and email across onboarding, plans and pricing, referrals, and lifecycle
Find natural ways to connect Fable's community with Everand's library
Bring your own ideas for what to test, and partner with your PM to scope experiments and set success metrics
Earn subscribers. No dark patterns, no tricks
Take work from rough concept to production-ready without letting the details slip
Bring a strong visual voice to two distinct brands, and define new patterns when our systems fall short
Prototype early, in code when it’s the right tool. Use AI to explore more directions before narrowing, and validate them through usability testing before they ship
Dig into results, spot where the journey is falling short, and bring a POV on what to try next
Ground your decisions in research, competitive insight, and what customers actually do
Share work early and often, and help the designers around you sharpen theirs

Application process

Resume
Portfolio with 3+ case studies that show growth impact, strong visual craft, and a point of view grounded in the why. Include at least one test that didn't win, and what you learned from it
Password, if applicable

Our take

The world's biggest site for social reading and publishing, Scribd's website has over 250 million unique visitors each month and a vast content library, consisting of over 200 million audiobooks, magazines, ebooks and newspapers as well as media created by the Scribd community.

While Scribd is the largest social reading site, it is not alone in offering this kind of media. It competes against some major players, the largest of which are Amazon's Kindle and Audible offerings, but also includes the likes of BookMate and the non-profit Internet Archive. Where it stands aside is in its feature-rich reader and the sheer diversity of its library, which, thanks to partnerships with several major publishers, features numerous popular titles as well as a range of independent creators.

Further differentiating it from competitors, the company taken a firm stand on social issues, in particular the recent wave of book bannings taking place across the United States. By making the banned titles freely available it hopes to do its part in preserving literary freedom. With this tendency showing no signs of slowing down, Scribd's intervention in this area could prove to be important.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

0% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3)

Trustpilot (1.2)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Nov 2019

$58m

LATE VC

Jan 2015

$22m

LATE VC

Total funding: $105.9m

Company benefits

Healthcare Insurance Coverage (Medical/Dental/Vision): 100% paid for employees
12 weeks paid parental leave
Short-term/long-term disability plans
401k/RSP matching
Tuition Reimbursement
Learning & Development programs
Quarterly stipend for Wellness, Connectivity & Comfort
Mental Health support & resources
Free subscription to Scribd + gift memberships for friends & family
Referral Bonuses
Book Benefit
Sabbaticals
Company wide events
Team engagement budgets
Vacation & Personal Days
Paid Holidays (+ winter break)
Flexible Sick Time
Volunteer Day
Company-wide Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion programs

Company HQ

China Basin, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Tony Grimminck

(CEO)

Joined the company in 2019 as CFO, becoming CEO in 2023. Previously co-founded International Connector, has served as Board Member and Advisor at various companies, and was CFO at Oto Analytics.

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