Senior Product Designer, Kickstarter
Mobile
$158.4k
More information about location
Crowdfunding platform for creative projects
Open for applications
Crowdfunding platform for creative projects
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$158.4k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help bring creative projects to life.
Role
Who you are
- Ideal candidates bring a background in designing consumer-facing mobile products with international checkout experiences, with an eye toward engagement and retention, especially those including storytelling, user-generated content, search and discovery, video, and payments
- You have solid professional experience leading design for mobile apps across iOS and Android platforms
- Your portfolio shows a proven track record of designing thoughtful, engaging, and highly usable mobile experiences
- You are knowledgeable of platform-specific design patterns and conventions across iOS and Android
- You have experience designing experiences for consumers in North America, Europe, and Asia
- You have experience designing with international privacy laws and regulations in mind
- Experience designing for commerce based companies with international checkout experiences
- You are an excellent communicator
- You have the ability to consistently frame, explain and support your design decisions with peers and stakeholders, as well as deeply understand their feedback
- You have strengths in information architecture, interaction design, and visual design
- You are comfortable using both formal and informal methods to gather and give feedback
- You have experience with design programs like Figma, and are comfortable prototyping
- You empathize with our Creator and Backer communities and recognize how both contribute to Kickstarter’s ecosystem
- You recognize the challenges of the creative process and bringing projects to life
What the job involves
- Kickstarter is seeking an experienced Senior Product Designer, Mobile to lead the re-imagination and evolution of our mobile apps. You will own the full design lifecycle for our iOS and Android platforms, working with cross-functional partners to deliver seamless experiences for our global community
- Define interaction and visual design standards for our mobile products
- Design user-centric experiences that balance user needs and business goals, can scale, and translate globally
- Own and evolve our mobile design system
- Provide an international design perspective within our product org
- Actively partner with our research team to conduct and analyze user research
- Work with teams across Kickstarter as the company works toward building a mature ecosystem that serves our community of Creators and Backers
- Collaborate with partners on cross-functional teams to ensure alignment where appropriate
Our take
Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform that is dedicated to the creative ecosystem, providing its community of painters, musicians, filmmakers, gamers, and all other creatives with a space to raise money for specific projects.
Kickstarter Campaigns operate on an “all-or-nothing” basis, meaning that if a campaign misses a deadline, they don’t get any of the money pledged to their project, however, creators are able to set deadlines and funding goals themselves in order to make the success of their campaign more manageable.
The company also launched a new feature in early 2023, called Drip, which enables creators to receive continued support from backers through subscription-based payments, ensuring sustainable funding for their projects.
By ensuring creatives retain 100% ownership of their work, the company simplifies the fundraising process by eliminating the need for long and complicated grant application processes, donors asking creators to make modifications, or last-minute edit requests from investors. Since its launch in 2009, 22M people around the globe have pledged over $7.2B to help fund projects such as the early version of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Mar 2011
$10m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $120m
Company benefits
- Continuous Learning: Curiosity is our compass. We welcome experimentation, failure, and the courage to try again. We invest in many kinds of trainings and workshops to make sure our team is always building new skills.
- Community: Join an Affinity Group like Black At Kickstarter, Parents, Azns, Queerstarter, or Gender Justice. Attend the many exciting social and cultural events available to Kickstarter employees. These include speaker series, product demos, concerts from teammates, pre-release film screenings, industry meetups, and more.
- Social Contribution: Every year Kickstarter donates five percent of our after-tax profit to organizations that fight systemic inequality and promote arts education. All full-time employees can nominate recipient organizations and apply to join the committee that ultimately directs our contributions.
- Stipends: We offer a yearly reimbursable stipend for Remote Working and Wellness.
- Fully Remote Work: Work flexibly. All full-time employees can live and work anywhere we are registered as an employer. See below for a list of current locations. We anticipate this list will continue to expand as we grow our distributed workforce.
- Benefits: Among other benefits, we offer a three percent safe harbor 401K contribution, world-class healthcare coverage, 16 annual paid vacation days, paid holidays, and 25 annual paid volunteer hours to all full-time employees.
Leadership
Everette Taylor
(CEO)Founder of ET Enterprises. Former CMO of Artsy and Skurt. They also previously worked as Head of Growth (Interim) at Microsoft China.
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