Principal UX Designer, Minted
$133.3-224.3k
Salary dependent on location + Annual performance bonus + Stock options
Design marketplace connecting people with artists
Open for applications
Design marketplace connecting people with artists
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$133.3-224.3k
Salary dependent on location + Annual performance bonus + Stock options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To uncover the world’s best creative talent.
Role
Who you are
- Significant experience leading design strategy to address high-stakes business challenges
- Proven experience designing for e-commerce platforms across desktop, mobile web, and native mobile applications
- Experience as a mentor who enjoys helping others grow
- Expertise in user-centric design, research methodologies (qual/quant), interaction/visual design, user behavior, and current trends (especially mobile-first)
- Strong storytelling ability to bridge current and future user journeys
- Someone with at least 5 years of relevant UX experience
- Proficient with design and collaboration tools (Figma, user testing, Confluence, Google Suite)
- An expert communicator, skilled in building alignment and connecting decisions to research and goals
- Adept at balancing multiple projects and comfortable shifting between strategic and tactical work
- Open, collaborative, listen well, and skilled at gracefully challenging ideas
- Resourceful and adaptable, adept at navigating ambiguity and driving impact within a dynamic and evolving business environment
- Pragmatic and outcome-oriented, with a strong sense of when to prioritize speed and iterative learning versus investing in foundational, scalable solutions
What the job involves
- Minted is seeking a highly influential Principal UX Designer to define our shopping experience vision and tackle complex business challenges across our entire web and mobile commerce experience - including features such as search, recommendations, navigation, pricing, promotions, and our landing pages
- You will be responsible for defining and building a premium shopping experience that supports all of Minted’s product lines and consumer segments
- Your focus will be on conveying the premium quality of our products, highlighting the role we play in consumer’s lives and exposing users to our new product lines
- You'll collaborate extensively with cross-functional partners, guide design execution with pragmatism and adaptability, and mentor others to solve Minted's toughest problems in a dynamic environment
- Define the overall UX vision and strategy, aligning it with business goals and influencing the product roadmap
- Champion a user-centered approach, using research and empathy to advocate for customer and artist needs
- Collaborate cross-functionally (product, engineering, brand, research) ensuring brand consistency and stakeholder alignment
- Lead concepting and prototyping for new features, focusing on mobile-first principles and core funnel optimization (navigation, IA)
- Design and facilitate workshops (e.g., discovery, ideation, strategy alignment) that effectively engage cross-functional teams and drive towards user-centered outcomes, solutions, or strategic clarity
- Mentor designers and partners, fostering their growth in design thinking
- Help prioritize design work based on user needs and establish systems to communicate those needs
Our take
Minted is a design marketplace, sourcing creative content from a global community of artists, using technology and crowdsourcing to give consumers access to independent creatives unavailable through traditional retailers.
With the success of sites like Etsy enabling consumers to buy direct from artisans, Minted sets itself apart by holding monthly art and design challenges which are open for both submission and voting. The ‘crowd’ curates Minted’s product selection by rating products, and Minted utilizes analytics to evaluate votes. The winning designs go into production which is taken care of by Minted's fulfillment house and the designers receive a 6%-10% cut of the sales.
Its unique ‘design by upvoting’ business model has led to almost $300m in funding, with backing from Benchmark Capital and IDG Ventures. As contests draw in more designers, the company is looking to expand beyond Minted.com and into physical retail, finding new ways to use the designs and creating fresh income streams for themselves and their artists.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2018
$208m
SERIES E
Oct 2014
$38m
SERIES D
Total funding: $297.1m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mariam Naficy
(Executive Chairman & Co-Founder)Previously served as the company's Co-CEO. Previously Member of the Board Of Directors at Medium, Yelp, Polyvore. Founder & co-CEO at Eve.com for 2 years and Vice-President and General Manager at The Body Shop for 3 years.
Melissa Kim
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously Associate at The Boston Consulting Group for 2 years and Manager - Corporate Strategy at eBay also for 2 years.
Share this job
View 12 more jobs at Minted