Lead Product Designer, Change.org
Elections
$185.5-218k
Salary applicable to candidates based in the US. Salary range for Canada based applicants: $187,000 CAD - $189,500 CAD
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Social change platform
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Social change platform
201-500 employees
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$185.5-218k
Salary applicable to candidates based in the US. Salary range for Canada based applicants: $187,000 CAD - $189,500 CAD
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower people everywhere to create the change they want to see.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of UX design experience
- 3+ years experience designing for a consumer product
- Material experience with functional prototyping & experimentation
- Experience with or interest designing AI-powered products
- Bonus: experience in B2C civic tech, edtech or media & publishing
- Bonus: experience designing product-led growth features
What the job involves
- Hange.org is searching for a Lead Product Designer to accelerate the development of a new set of local election experiences and tools as we venture to bring functional prototypes to real users throughout the 2025 local election cycle
- With a masterful understanding of, and passion for human-centered design you will lead all aspects of user experience, validation and testing for our product concepts en route to developing a scaled product in 2026 and beyond
- Accelerate the research, design and validation of elections products & features through rapid functional prototyping & experimentation
- Concept, design and iterate the user experience, enabling us to mature the product prior to breaking ground in code, accelerating development
- Optimize our learning across a schedule of local elections, testing riskiest assumptions, validating the product skeleton and identify the right experience(s) that will meet our users ‘where they are’
- Collaborate with product, product marketing and engineering leads to shape strategy and drive an effective product development process
- Use our design system and guidelines, to create new features from ideas on paper to implementation
- Shape the make-up and ultimately the culture of this new team as we hire and onboard engineering and product marketing partners
- Reduce complexity to create simple, delightful, accessible experiences for our users
- UX Research - Skilled at using evaluative and generative research methods to get to the heart of customer problems
- UX Design - Has a strong creative vision and the ability to switch easily from blue sky ideation to generating fully fleshed UX designs
- Functional Prototyping - Expertise in collaborating with engineering to build functional prototypes that accelerate time-to-market through rapid validation and iteration
- Static Functional Prototypes: Developing clickable prototypes (e.g., Figma) that incorporate dynamic, user-specific content, such as ballot information (races, candidates, measures, etc.), enabling stakeholders to explore user flows and interact with realistic data and recommendations
- Live Functional Prototypes: Partnering with engineering to create prototypes integrated with live data, enabling broader and more efficient testing to capture scaled feedback in real election moments
- Leadership & Drive - Intrinsically motivated by driving impact and outcomes with a bias to action and challenger mindset
- 0-1 Idea to Execution - a track record of validating, launching and maturing products to deliver sustained impact for customers and businesses
Application process
- Recruiter Screen
- Take Home Exercise
- Virtual Team Interviews with our GM Elections, CPO, and VP Design, Head of Talent, Head of Engagement, and a Design team member
Our take
Change.org is a global online website that has hosted millions of petitions since it launched in 2007, including dozens of notable cases that have led to significant worldwide change. Of interest, too, is its voluntary 2021 recognition of its staff’s labor union; at the time it was the largest tech company to do so.
Change.org remains the leading player in online petitions, generating revenue from petition promotions and subscription memberships. This revenue has raised some eyebrows - but Change.org has successfully withstood skepticism about its legal status as a business rather than a non-profit. It has demonstrably facilitated speed and scale for the social change platform and has allowed the company to comfortably retain salaried employees.
The company has become the world's largest nonprofit-owned tech platform after it transitioned to 100% nonprofit ownership following donations of equity from its investors including Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson. However, Change.org has not been immune from the global economic crisis, and in response, it aims to innovate its platform by updating its internal tools and engineering capabilities. Regardless, the company is here for the long run and is used in around 200 countries, with over 70,000 campaigns launched on its platform each month.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2017
$28.5m
SERIES D
Dec 2014
$25m
SERIES C
Total funding: $70.5m
Company benefits
- Benefits for you and your family - medical, vision, dental, disability, Life, EAP, and more
- 100% baseline monthly healthcare costs covered for each employee
- Mental health benefits provide our employees with 9 free therapy and 10 free career coaching sessions
- Flexible and generous vacation and holidays
- 5 Recharge Days throughout the year that allow for collective time off across our global workforce
- Global year-end paid company holiday closure
- Minimum 18 weeks global paid parental leave
- Consistently applied compensation standards
- Commitment to a culture of feedback through quarterly engagement surveys
- Focus on your growth and development through quarterly performance management check-ins
- Work where you need to work
- Join our in-person events to build connection
- Win an Impact Award and travel to a dream city
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Ben Rattray
(Executive Chair)Studied at LSE, and Political Science & Economics at Stanford.
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