Senior Product Designer, Grindr

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in product design, UI design, and/or UX design in a fast-paced environment
• An outstanding portfolio, showcasing excellent visual and interaction skills and craft —mastery in your field
• Highly collaborative. Able to build trust & strong relationships at all levels, influence without formal authority, and push back when appropriate
• Demonstrated ability to help a team navigate ambiguity, set vision, and set strategy for global products
• Confident in your own skill but respectful of the contributions of others
• Experimental by nature, excited and knowledgeable about A/B testing and user research
• Strong storytelling, presentation, communication and stakeholder management skills
• Deep experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working with cross-functional teams including development, product management, and product research
• Knowledgeable of industry and platform-specific patterns
• Can effortlessly motivate and drive small to medium teams to transform a product
• Experience designing for both Android, iOS and Responsive web
• Experience with Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Proto.io (or other prototyping tools) is a must
• Experience working on a live app

Desirable

• We are looking for a well-rounded Senior Product Designer who has a passion for conceiving and executing simple and impactful interfaces for the queer community
• Grindr is a huge, uniquely important app, and you’ll be part of a small team that shapes the direction and future of a product used by millions of people a month
• This is an opportunity to directly affect the lives of millions of people through your aesthetic, interaction, and product choices
• Design valuable, cohesive, and delightful user experiences for Grindr
• Being an active mentor for senior designers, and helping lead critique, design reviews, and quarterly planning
• Oversee multiple initiatives from insight to strategy, to launch across all platforms and devices
• Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists, and Researchers to define problems & goals, map user flows, prototype interactions, and launch new products and services
• Build strong relationships with leaders inside and outside of core product teams; strong communication and executive stakeholder management skills
• Have a keen understanding of technological, business and user opportunities and constraints
• Scope project work (in partnership with PMs and engineers) and help define the design process and timeline
• Always be an advocate for our users
• Stay up-to-date with mobile app design trends, best practices, patterns, new capabilities, etc., and use this knowledge to push the product forward