Senior Product Designer, Candy
3-6 Month Contract
Total Compensation Range (Hourly Rate) $45-70hr + Equity
NFT store & trading marketplace
Job no longer available
NFT store & trading marketplace
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
Total Compensation Range (Hourly Rate) $45-70hr + Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To deepen our interaction with experiences that bring us joy.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking someone who is creative with a modern aesthetic, process driven, human-centered, and are excited to closely collaborate within a fast-paced cross-functional team environment
- We are searching for creative minds that are excited to take on challenges in the immediate while providing vision to the future
- We want builders, innovators, and those that can not only think outside the box but collaborate outside the box
- You have at least 5+ years of proven success in a cross-functional product organization effectively collaborating with product management, strategy, design, engineering, brand, as well as third-party partners to bring truly differentiated products & solutions to life
- You have the ability to think through product, engineering, design, or growth challenges – bringing independent knowledge as well as the reach and resources of our network to help where needed
- You are a systems thinker who not only sees the big picture but can get down to the tiniest of details to crafting delightful, usable, human-centered outcomes from whiteboard to wires to prototypes to development-ready assets
- You have experience scaling products through constant learning and experimentation in fast-paced and rapidly changing industries
- You have a track record of creating seamless customer journeys using design thinking and agile, iterative product development processes
- You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, matched with the ability to tell a story with data
- You have the ability to think strategically, learn quickly, prioritize effectively, and succeed in fast-paced and uncertain environments while acting autonomously
- You have an entrepreneurial mindset and a passion for using emerging technology and data to solve unmet user needs
- You have a love of sports, entertainment, gaming, blockchain & crypto, and/or collectibles!
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our product organization
- We help fuel Candy’s success by pushing the boundaries of what is possible
- You’ll help define the end-to-end platform product experience across all of our surfaces, partnering with product, business, marketing, and engineering leaders in building the premium blockchain-powered digital collectible experience
- As we are planning roadmap of a new set of new features that need product design, we want someone that is ready to evolve the product - build new features for collectors, conducting design sprints and experimenting
Our take
Candy produces, sells, and allows fans to trade NFTs on its marketplace. Since launching in 2021, the company's focus has primarily been on baseball and other sports, but it has since expanded into other franchises with the addition of Netflix's Stranger Things Line.
The company was launched by Michael Rubin, the CEO of sports retailer Fanatics (a company valued at over $30 billion), along with Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz and famous entrepreneur and internet personality Gary Vaynerchuk who was an angel investor in the likes of Slack, Venmo, and Uber.
While competition amongst NFT marketplaces is tight, Candy stands out from the crowd given its high profile founding team, business partnerships with the likes of Major League Basketball, Netflix and Getty Images, as well as its rapidly-earned $1.5 billion valuation. There’s been plenty of encouragement with sales too, particularly since the platform debuted its trading marketplace in early 2022. Remarkably, it took just eight hours to surpass $1 million in trade volume.
Following the collapse in the crypto and NFT space in late 2022 it would be expected that Candy might have fared badly, but it has instead announced an extension to its Series A funding round which has attracted significant investment. It intends to use this money to scale the platform and seek out new partnership opportunities with major brands.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2023
$38m
EARLY VC
Oct 2021
$100m
SERIES A
Total funding: $138m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary
- Stock options
- Health coverage
- Unlimited vacation
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Gary Vaynerchuk
(Board Member)Serial entrepreneur, angel investor, public figure and bestselling author. CEO of VaynerMedia and VaynerNFT, Chairman of VaynerX, and Board Member of fast growth fitness apparel brand Gymshark.
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