Senior Product Designer, Marco Polo
Growth & Experimentation
$135-165k
+ Equity
Asynchronous video communication for friends & family
Open for applications
Asynchronous video communication for friends & family
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$135-165k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
Marco Polo's mission is to help people feel close.
Role
Who you are
- If you thrive in fast-paced environments, love working through hypotheses, and prioritize driving meaningful outcomes—without losing sight of the details that matter—we’d love to talk
- Have a strong background in UI/UX design across mobile, web, and desktop platforms
- Have a desire to deeply understand the “why” before defining the “how”
- Love fast iteration and continuous learning—comfortable making quick iterations and refining based on real-world feedback
- Can drive business outcomes by designing with both user needs and behavioral psychology in mind
- Know how to bring ideas to life through thoughtful prototyping and clear communication
- Are adaptable and able to adjust to technical constraints and evolving priorities
- Have experience with A/B testing and user research methodologies
- Thrive in a remote-first environment and genuinely enjoy async collaboration across teams
- Enjoy working across a wide range of challenges and never get bored doing it
- Have 4+ years of experience designing consumer-facing products, ideally in growth-oriented teams
What the job involves
- We’re looking to hire a Senior Product Designer who is motivated by iteration, experimentation, and learning
- Design and iterate rapidly: Take broad, conceptual ideas and quickly turn them into experiments that help us learn and grow. You’ll be focused on testing, measuring, and improving acquisition, activation, monetization and referral
- Obsess over business impact: Identify opportunities to drive key business metrics, such as activation, monetization, and retention. You'll focus on refining features and experiences that enhance user experience and move key business metrics forward
- Work cross-functionally: Partner closely with engineers, product managers, and other designers to bring designs from concept to reality. You'll collaborate deeply across teams to deliver impactful results and drive business growth
- Make data-driven design decisions: Use qualitative and quantitative insights to guide your approach. You’ll conduct user research, analyze engagement metrics, and refine experiences based on real-world data
- Champion a test-and-learn mindset: Develop hypotheses, ship experiments, and analyze the results to drive continuous improvement. You'll celebrate learnings just as much as successes
- Own your research: You’ll take the initiative in conducting user research, competitor analysis, and data gathering to inform your design decisions
- As a fully remote team, we work in a variety of ways. Our primary way is asynchronously via Marco Polo, but we also do live Zoom chats and of course, plenty of feedback loops happening through Figma comments. This allows us to move fast while ensuring alignment and clarity in our work
Our take
Instead of focusing on live video calls or group video chats, Marco Polo focuses on asynchronous communication. That makes Marco Polo an ideal fit for an older generation who are short on time but increasingly keen to engage with technology to improve their lives & relationships.
The company earned millions of new users over the pandemic and has managed to continue that momentum with new features such as ‘Channels’ which brings creators onto the platform, providing more content.
Like any company of its kind, Marco Polo’s main goal will be to avoid becoming a ‘fad’ while growing revenue. A less fickle, older user base and strong network effects mean that it stands a great chance.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2016
$20m
SERIES B
Apr 2015
$5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $25.7m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision and dental coverage plus benefits that support your mental health and emotional well-being
- Flexible paid time off, generous company holidays and self care days
- 100% remote, anywhere in North America. -Stipend for a coworking space
- A work schedule built to fit your real life
- Quarterly in-person and virtual team retreats, all expenses paid
- Compensation: Our cash compensation package is made of up two components - base pay and equity in the company
- Paid parental leave for all new parents
Leadership
Vlada Bortnik
(CEO)Previously co-founded AdNectar, a social media advertising technology backed by Kleiner Perkins and Floodgate. Before that, worked at Microsoft in various teams like Hotmail and Windows Live as a Senior Program Manager.
Michal Bortnik
(President of Strategy & Product)Previously co-founded AdNectar, a social media advertising technology backed by Kleiner Perkins and Floodgate. Before that, they co-founded another tool for helping families stay close remotely - Agoost, a internet-enabled toys company. Earned an MBA from Stanford in 2008.
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