Staff Product Designer, Patreon
Design Foundations
$216-324k
+ Equity
2 days a week in office
Funding platform for creatives
Job no longer available
Funding platform for creatives
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$216-324k
+ Equity
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
- This role is ideal for an equally visual and systems thinker who thrives on variety
- 7+ years of crafting end-to-end product design experiences
- Highly competent in translating the needs of a target audience to solutions through a holistic and empathetic process
- Portfolio with demonstrated evidence of shipping world-class customer experiences that have made a significant impact on business metrics
- Deep organization and execution skills, especially in collaboration with multiple stakeholders
- Experience in design thinking methodologies to lead teams toward user-centered outcomes
- A deep commitment to craft & product excellence
- A humble, collaborative, and service-oriented approach to your career
- Scrappiness & bias towards action: we’re building the future of creative independence and changing the way art is made
What the job involves
- Patreon is looking for a Staff Product Designer for the Foundations team to shape the holistic user experience of our platform, ensuring a cohesive, high-quality visual system that integrates seamlessly with our brand
- This role sits at the intersection of product design, visual systems, and brand execution, guiding how Patreon shows up across creator and fan experiences
- You’ll define and refine our visual product language, enabling designers to work more efficiently while maintaining consistency and excellence
- This is a high-impact, hands-on role where you’ll mentor and support the product design team, work closely with the design system to set standards for UI and interaction patterns, and set the standards that accelerate great design
- You’ll help bridge the gap between product and brand expression with strong, opinionated decisions
- From redesigning core experiences to refining our navigation and design architecture, you’ll play a critical role in modernizing Patreon’s platform
- Define and refine Patreon’s visual product language to enable consistency, efficiency, and excellence across the platform
- Build end-to-end design solutions to help bring new offerings to large-scale creators
- Proactively discover company-level opportunities and help bring clarity and insight through high-fidelity prototypes and expert storytelling
- Work closely with Research, Product and Engineering to identify, plan, scope and execute end-to-end design solutions
- Work across the entire design organization to develop innovative patterns and systems that are durable, repeatable and achieve a high standard for craft
- Create, collaborate, and iterate on prototypes, high-fidelity visuals, and key flows
- Mentor and support the product design team, setting standards for UI, interaction patterns, and visual craft
- Contribute to the visioning, sequencing, tactics, and execution of a multi-phased overhaul 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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