Senior Product Designer, Patreon
Design Systems
$180-270k
+ Equity plan
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Funding platform for creatives
Open for applications
Funding platform for creatives
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$180-270k
+ Equity plan
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Patreon's mission is to power creators to do what they love, and get paid by the people who love what they do.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone who has built or significantly evolved design systems in medium-sized organizations, operationalizing them for broader teams
- 4+ years of experience specializing in design systems at a consumer-centric company
- A proven track record of building or evolving design systems in medium-sized organizations
- Exceptional Figma skills, including mastery of libraries and tokens
- Strong systems thinking and an ability to create frameworks that scale across diverse use cases
- Deep understanding of modern UI design principles, motion/animation, and accessibility
- Strong communication skills to articulate decisions, guide stakeholders, and advocate for design systems
- Experience working closely with engineers to ensure seamless implementation and consistency
- Ability to mentor and elevate the skills of designers, helping them create system-compliant designs
- A desire to build, evolve, and own a design system that serves as the backbone for all product experiences
- Passion for modernizing design and bringing brand and product together in innovative ways
What the job involves
- Patreon is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to lead the evolution of our design system, shaping how our product brings our brand to life while enabling scalable, consistent, and accessible design solutions
- You will own and expand our design library, champion accessibility, and set the craft bar for visual design for our platform
- This role is highly collaborative and hands-on
- You’ll partner with product designers, engineers, and branding teams to create a design system that empowers the organization to deliver modern, functional, and cohesive experiences
- Lead the development, maintenance, and documentation of Patreon’s design system, including Figma libraries, tokens, components, patterns, and motion guidelines
- Establish scalable, reusable frameworks and patterns that support diverse use cases across web and mobile platforms
- Push the craft of visual/UI design, setting a high standard for aesthetics, usability, and consistency. Work with the brand design team to bring the Patreon brand to life through the product
- Partner with and guide designers to create functional, repeatable components that enhance efficiency and create consistency
- Work closely with engineers to build and maintain a scalable, accessible library of components and patterns
- Establish best practices for how the system is implemented and maintained across teams
- Build for inclusivity and accessibility, advocating for accessible design in collaboration with cross-functional teams
- Own and continually improve documentation to guide the use and extension of the design system
- Communicate updates and rationale for design system changes to stakeholders across the company
- Partner with product, brand, and engineering teams to align design system efforts with company goals
- Mentor designers and engineers to foster system adoption and elevate the overall quality of the product
Our take
Creatives face two major struggles in the online space: getting eyes (or ears) on their work, and getting paid for it. Patreon was founded to solve both problems with a platform that would provide a space for creators to host and promote their work, and offer supporters a way to show their support through a regular paid subscription.
Patreon has been a leader in the content subscription space since its founding, but recently has come under pressure from newer rivals such as Substack and Ko-fi. It has maintained its position by shifting its focus from being primarily a marketplace for supporters to find creatives that interest them to being a toolbox for content creators to promote their work. While the site's creatives value this approach it remains to be seen whether Patreon will be able to return to the growth it was enjoying in previous years.
Despite the inroads made by competitors and a troubling global economic outlook making finances tougher for content creators and their supporters, Patreon is still a leader in its space, with over its over 250,000 active creators having made $3.5 billion through the platform. It is going through a period of downsizing to focus on its core business, and is continuing to hire talent to improve its product and expand its marketing efforts.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$155m
SERIES F
Sep 2020
$90m
SERIES E
Total funding: $352.1m
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Commuter stipend
- Training budget
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Stock options
- 401k
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jack Conte
(CEO)Graduated from Stanford with a degree in Music. Created musical content on Youtube as Pomplamoose before founding Patreon.
Sam Yam
(CTO)Worked in analytics and engineering roles at Yahoo, Ning and Loopt. Previously founded mobile advertising company AdWhirl, which was acquired by Google.
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