Lead Product Designer, Bubble
Core
$191-248k
+ Equity
More information about location
AI app builder
Open for applications
AI app builder
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$191-248k
+ Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To let anyone build powerful web and mobile apps visually, without code.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in Product Design or related fields (UX, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Experience Architecture), including work on complex, multi-surface products where usability and clarity were core outcomes
- A track record of designing and shipping high-impact end-user facing features on mature platforms, with a portfolio that demonstrates system-level thinking, end-to-end ownership, and measurable improvements to ease of use and overall experience quality
- Strong capability in orchestrating design workstreams across multiple product areas, collaborating with and influencing cross-functional partners, and thoughtfully integrating new interaction patterns and technologies into existing workflows without adding friction
- Proven ability to mentor and grow associate designers, raising the bar on usability, interaction quality, and user-centered decision-making while fostering a culture of thoughtful critique and continuous improvement
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to frame UX tradeoffs, present complex design decisions to executives and cross-disciplinary teams, and advocate for user needs in a way that aligns with business goals
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, or a related field
- Your Achievements:
- Led the conception and launch of core end-user facing product features that improved usability across multiple product surfaces, setting a clear direction for user-centric, responsible, and easy-to-learn design
- Experienced in tackling complex problem spaces and UX challenges with intuitive solutions
- Incorporated rapid prototyping, experimentation, and enabling technologies into the design process to validate usability quickly and ship intuitive, high-quality solutions
- Mentored and developed associate designers, elevating the craft of product design with a focus on clear interaction patterns, accessibility, and creating experiences that feel simple—even when the underlying systems are complex
- Built strong cross-team partnerships that enabled cohesive, end-to-end user journeys, ensuring that new features and touchpoints felt consistent, predictable, and easy to navigate across the platform
- We prefer hiring people within commuting distance of our NYC office because we value getting together in person regularly
- Let’s democratize access to technology together! If this sounds like you, apply! If you don’t meet all of the qualifications but think you could be a match, we’d still love the chance to review your application
What the job involves
- At Bubble, we’re redefining how software gets made—and that transformation starts in our visual editor
- We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer to own the evolution of the core Bubble application building interfaces where makers bring their ideas to life
- This is a high-impact role for a designer who thinks end-to-end about complex systems and workflows, and who thrives on turning that complexity into powerful, intuitive tools
- Our goal is to improve the ease of use of our visual development editor so that anyone can succeed at building applications on the Bubble platform while also enhancing and extending it to support additional use cases
- Serve as the Lead Product Designer for Bubble’s core platform visual editor, shaping the design vision and execution for the foundational capabilities that power our entire builder experience. Champion simplicity, clarity, and ease of use so that Bubble’s most advanced tools feel intuitive and approachable to builders of all backgrounds
- Own the end-to-end design process for new and existing features—from research and ideation through high-fidelity design, validation, and launch—crafting cohesive, discoverable, and efficient experiences across Bubble’s building and editing tools
- Play a central role in extending Bubble’s AI capabilities into the visual editor, designing hybrid AI-and-visual workflows that keep builders firmly in control while making complex tasks feel faster, smarter, and easier
- Drive cross-functional alignment by partnering closely with PMs, engineers, and other designers to integrate new interaction patterns, workflows, and technologies in a way that feels natural, consistent, and predictable across the product
- Lead user research and usability testing for your product area, uncovering friction and opportunities, and turning insights into pragmatic design improvements that reduce cognitive load, improve learnability, and help users build faster with fewer mistakes
Application process
- Your portfolio should feature product work that has been released to users, ideally on complex platforms or tools, not just concept projects
- Your portfolio should highlight at least one case study where you significantly improved platform-wide usability, clarity, or ease of use across multiple surfaces
- Your portfolio should demonstrate strong systems thinking, showing both breadth and depth in UX and interaction design across interconnected flows and features
- Your portfolio should clearly articulate your design process and show how your work evolved over time: the business problem, constraints and assumptions, initial direction, key iterations, and the final outcome
- Your portfolio should explain how your designs advanced company or product objectives—such as adoption, efficiency, or quality—while also meaningfully improving the user experience
- You must provide a password to your portfolio at application time
Our take
More people than ever are interested in starting a digital product business such as a SaaS, social network or marketplace, but getting started is tough. Creating tangible proof-of-concept products generally requires software development skills, and without experience in coding, this usually results in expensive programmer hires.
Bubble provides a no-code software development platform, allowing its users to build SaaS apps, dashboards, CRMs, marketplaces, social networks, and other web or mobile-based software applications without coding experience. The platform allows users to navigate prototyping, launch, collaborative iterative development, and unlimited scaling through simple drag-and-drop interfaces, allowing anyone to develop software without the need for programming experience.
No-code software development startups have been growing in popularity and this undeniably presents significant competition for Bubble, but their all-in-one approach to design, functionality, and management gives them a cutting edge over similar niche-focussed alternatives. The company claims that through its platform, businesses can launch and develop products at a much faster rate due to increased accessibility to software development, without the need for expensive hires and infrastructure.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2021
$100m
SERIES A
Jun 2019
$6m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $106.4m
Company benefits
- Company equity
- Generous PTO
- Health, dental, and vision
- Paid parental leave
- Sabbatical program
- 401(k) matching
- Wellness and work stipend
- Bi-annual team retreats
- In-office lunches
- Flexible-first hybrid work
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Emmanuеl Straschnοv
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Experience as CEO Assistant for Prada. Consultant for Roland Berger Strategy Consultants from 2007 to 2010.
Josh Haas
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Management Associate for Bridgewater Associates from 2007 to 2010. Experience as Co-founder and CTO of KeywordSmart.
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