Senior Manager of Product Design & Research, VSCO
$200-220k
+ Equity + Bonus
Creative platform for photographers
Be an early applicant
Creative platform for photographers
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-220k
+ Equity + Bonus
101-200 employees
Company mission
VSCO's mission is to nurture creativity so its users can make it.
Role
Who you are
- You are both a leader and a maker, able to flex between exploring broad concepts and diving into pixels
- You have a strong track record of building teams and delivering high-quality work with demonstrated business impact in a start-up environment
- Experience designing across web and mobile
- A growth mindset and ability to lead others through experimentation, failure, and learning loops
- Fluency across Agile product development processes, design tools, and research methodologies
- An understanding of technical limitations and an ability to advocate for concepts cross-functionally
- Superb presentation and storytelling skills
- Familiarity with the photographer experience and digital creative platforms
Desirable
- Affinity with VSCO’s values and mission of supporting photographers so they can make it
- Experience shaping creative communities and/or creative tools
What the job involves
- VSCO is looking for a Senior Manager to lead the Product Design & Research team
- You will lead efforts to uncover new opportunities, guide product strategy, and deliver best-in-class designs
- As the head of the Product Design & Research team, you will cultivate a curious, empathetic, and collaborative working style across the organization
- Your work will shape the company’s understanding of our customers and drive the development of thoughtful experiences that impact millions of creators worldwide
- Work closely with leadership to hone our product vision and roadmap
- Oversee all design & research cycles from early discovery through delivery and evaluation
- Manage and mentor a team of four, including defining growth plans, establishing rituals, and owning the team backlog
- Uphold a high-quality standard, ensuring that work addresses business goals, technical constraints, and user needs
- Iterate on product development processes with cross-functional partners
- Shape our shared design system and brand language
- Serve as a chief advocate for creators within the company
- Proactively drive design initiatives forward with velocity, making thoughtful decisions that leverage our user research & data
- Maintain high standards of accountability and ownership, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams to resolve challenges quickly and maintain momentum
Application process
- The application window for this role will be open until at least 11/18/2024
Our take
VSCO, pronounced 'visco', is a photo and video editing and sharing app. Doing away with the ad revenue model of social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, it instead makes its money from subscriptions - and offers users a break from the constant pressure of follower and like counts.
Co-founded by an ex-wedding photographer with a passion for good, simple photography, as well as a former Creative Director, VSCO has found itself uniquely able to cater to what the creative community wants and needs. It of course competes with Instagram, as well as newcomers such as Tezza, but nonetheless has a strong and loyal user base, due to its creator-first philosophy, that could very well see it to further success.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2015
$30m
SERIES B
May 2014
$40m
SERIES A
Total funding: $70m
Company benefits
- A virtual first workplace with quarterly company-wide travel events to connect and play
- Equity
- Healthcare insurance, vision, dental insurance for employees and families
- Flexible vacation policy
- Creative Fridays, VSCO Create weeks (our version of hack week), and so much more
Company values
- Always Moving Forward - By pushing our work forward thoughtfully and with intention, our community gets more of what they love from VSCO
- Be You - By creating a space in which authentic views are heard and celebrated, we not only create a better workplace, but an inclusive product
- Build Together - By working together, we make better products and focus on the right things at the right time.
- Creator First - By putting the needs of creators first, we build a product they are inspired to use and a brand they can trust.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Joel Flory
(Executive Chairman)Was CEO of the company from 2011 to 2023. Prior to co-founding VSCO, they were a successful commercial and wedding photographer.
Greg Lutze
(Chief Experience Officer)An Advisor at Sene, SELF and Chroma. Before co-Founding VSCO, they worked as Creative Director for design agencies in Seattle and New York.
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