Staff Product Designer, Ghost
$180-200k
Office located in Mid-city Los Angeles
Inventory distribution optimization
Job no longer available
Inventory distribution optimization
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$180-200k
Office located in Mid-city Los Angeles
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform how inventory is bought and sold.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re motivated by building infrastructure and championing innovation, while keeping solutions grounded and executable, this role is for you
- 8+ years of experience designing complex, data-rich, or multi-sided products
- Strong UX and UI craft with fluency in Figma and modern AI-enabled design tools and plug-ins
- Experience using AI to accelerate exploration and iteration while maintaining high-quality product thinking
- Demonstrated strength in discovery, research, and problem definition — not just execution
- Strong systems thinker with the ability to design across user types, workflows, and multi-sided platforms
- Proven ability to influence roadmap and product strategy alongside PM and Engineering
- Technically savvy and comfortable operating close to the stack (e.g., command line familiarity, installing plug-ins, understanding APIs, databases, MCPs, and technical constraints)
- Experience working in fast-moving startup environments with ambiguity and limited structure
- Strong collaborator who balances innovation with practicality — pushing the team forward while keeping solutions grounded
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff Product Designer to help define the vision and experience of our AI-powered distribution platform connecting global supply and demand
- You’ll join a scrappy, high-ownership team where ambiguity is constant and opportunity is significant
- You will help shape the product direction, balancing customer insight, technical feasibility, and business impact
- You'll lead design across core platforms, from early concept through production
- Define and evolve interaction patterns for AI-powered workflows including pricing, matching, routing, and deal evaluation
- Drive deep discovery: ask questions, define user needs, conduct research, and clearly frame problems before jumping to solutions
- Design complex marketplace surfaces serving brands, buyers, and internal operators
- Think in systems: map user types, flows, states, and edge cases across interconnected experiences
- Use AI as part of your workflow to explore, prototype, and iterate quickly while maintaining strong product judgement
- Leverage a strong UX/UI toolkit to create elegant, high-leverage solutions to complex operational problems
- Align stakeholders around clear, vision-driven design direction
- Measure outcomes and refine experiences based on adoption, efficiency, and revenue performance
Our take
Excess inventory is one of the biggest pain points for modern retailers. Ghost solves this problem by making it easier for retailers to buy and sell excess inventory discreetly and sustainably.
With retailers wasting around $500 billion a year on excess inventory, demand for solutions like Ghost's is sky-high. The company has also made good on this demand, emerging from stealth mode in 2022 and about $66 million in funding to date. Ghost, which functions in much the same way as eBay, has benefited hugely from its founder's prior experience in the apparel industry.
Ghost's clear focus on sustainability and discretion has broad market appeal, especially for large-scale retailers looking to reduce waste and improve their public image. If Ghost can continue to attract such clients, it could scale at an impressive pace in the coming years.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2024
$40m
SERIES C
Jul 2023
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88m
Company HQ
Beverly Grove, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Josh Kaplan
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Previously worked as Senior Director of UEG Ventures, and was VP of Digital at Buck Mason.
Dee Murthy
(Co-Founder)They are also the Co-Founder of Young & Reckless and Five Four Group.
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