Staff Product Designer, #Paid
Influencer marketing & collaboration platform
Posted today
Influencer marketing & collaboration platform
101-200 employees
Posted today
101-200 employees
Company mission
To power all brand collaborations across the creator economy, enabling creators to build careers they love.
Role
Who you are
- You have 7+ years of experience in product design, including 2+ years leading complex, cross-functional projects
- You have a strong portfolio that demonstrates deep UX thinking and end-to-end ownership of complex software products
- You have experience building and maintaining scalable design systems
- You can work autonomously on large-scale initiatives like system unification or high-visibility features
- You’re confident managing executive stakeholders and representing design at the leadership level
- You’re comfortable conducting research and synthesizing insights to guide design strategy
- You bring strong collaboration skills and a proactive mindset in ambiguous environments
- You use tools such as prototypes, journey maps, and UX flows to articulate progress, rationale, and decisions
- You understand and advocate for accessibility and inclusive design
- You have proficiency with tools like Figma, and a strong grasp of responsive web and mobile design
- You have a deep understanding of front-end technologies, design handoff workflows, and implementation constraints
What the job involves
- As a member of our team, your role will involve designing tools and features that provide a foundation for brands and creators to collaborate effectively
- You will be working alongside a team that is shaping the future of #paid, and exploring strategies for scaling the platform to accommodate a wide range of use cases
- As a Staff Product Designer, you'll have significant ownership and impact across the platform
- You'll lead the evolution of our design system, work on high-impact features that drive revenue and user experience, and help grow our design practice and culture
- You’ll also be tackling unique challenges in the creator/influencer marketing space that few designers get to solve, all while working in a startup environment that has both product-market fit and massive growth potential
- Own the end-to-end product design process from discovery through delivery
- Collaborate closely with PMs, engineers, and other stakeholders to shape the team's roadmap and goals from an impactful and measurable customer outcome perspective
- Design elegant, user-centered experiences that balance business needs with usability
- Create and maintain a scalable, cross-platform design system that increases team velocity and ensures consistency
- Conduct and synthesize user research to validate ideas and inform decisions
- Be accountable for the design quality and cohesion across the product line, helping fellow designers advocate for best practices and solutions with their teams
- Drive continuous improvement in design processes, rituals, and tools
- Present and communicate design decisions clearly to stakeholders and executives
- Collaborate with engineers throughout implementation to ensure design quality
- Influence product strategy and roadmap by bringing a design lens to early-stage initiatives
- Lead mobile-first, end-to-end design experiences that drive value for creators and brands
- Develop and share comprehensive UX visions for multi-quarter projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals
- Partner with PMs and engineers to define, prioritize, and ship high-impact features
- Create and evolve scalable design systems that support rapid product development
- Provide craft guidance to designers on the team on complex, multi-faceted features that influence the platform’s medium and long-term strategies" to signal a higher degree of design maturity
- Conduct user research and usability testing to inform product decisions
- Own design deliverables from ideation to implementation, ensuring visual and interaction quality
- Collaborate cross-functionally to improve workflows and elevate design execution
- Document and refine UX processes, creating scalable tools, templates, and frameworks that elevate holistic design speed and quality to signal a higher degree of design maturity
- Maintain and contribute to a high-quality, cross-platform design system
- Influence product strategy and represent design in executive-level discussions
Our take
The social media creator economy has continued to grow and flourish in recent years. However, influencers continue to battle the challenge of an ever-changing engagement algorithm. This has not made it easier for big brands, who have, since the early days of social media, struggled with harnessing the power of influencer marketing. #Paid was founded to provide a solution to both stakeholders.
#Paid is a creator marketing software platform built as a marketplace for businesses to harness the influencer marketing economy. It allows influencers access to a wide array of clientele, and provides its business customers with the ability to generate campaigns, shop creators, and reach their target audience without the expertise previously needed to execute these campaigns. The company’s precision matching has contributed significantly to its success in recent years.
Impressively, the company serves Nestle, UberEats, Volvo, and Canon, amongst other big names. With the continued rise of the content creation industry, #Paid’s unique positioning as both content and brand advocate should secure its growth along with it. Recently, the company was named an official TikTok Marketing Partner, offering yet more opportunity for it to expand the reach of its platform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2021
$13.9m
SERIES B
May 2018
$9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $24.4m
Company benefits
- Digital first
- Spending account
- Unlimited vacation
- Internet/phone allowance
- Health coverage
- Education allowance
- Summer Fridays
- Team socials
Company HQ
Wellington Place, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Bryan Gold
(CEO)Has worked previously as a Launch Specialist at Apple and is an Alumnus of Next Founders.
Adam Rivietz
(CSO)Previously the Founder & President of Entourage Apps, which was acquired, as well as Owner & Founder of MyProm Inc.
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