Product Designer, Quora

• Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
• 2 years of experience designing for multi-sided platforms or marketplaces
• Portfolio demonstrating digital design capabilities across web and native apps, showcasing effective interaction design and strong visual design
• Experience designing complex products in the B2C space resulting in clear, effective interactions that balance business and user goals
• Experience designing and shipping product features from scratch and iterating on existing features
• Ability to reason at a strategic level about a complex, social product and update perspective with new learnings
• Demonstrated track record of using data and user research to inform and evaluate design solutions

Desirable

• Designing a global ecosystem for knowledge sharing and a platform for businesses to reach this audience requires a multidisciplinary approach
• We're building a diverse team with people of different backgrounds and experiences, empowered to shape strategy while moving quickly and learning as much as possible
• Designers at Quora are building a system to democratize access to all knowledge for the entire world
• Our work leverages what we learn about psychological and social dynamics, communities and networks, and systems and policy design, in addition to more typical design skills
• Product design directly impacts product strategy
• We work on everything from ranking to UI, from internationalization to moderation systems; design decisions are validated through A/B testing and user studies alike, as we value rigor and empathy in equal measure
• We pursue candor, holism, and awareness in our work
• Quora designers are strategically minded and have full ownership of their work
• As a product designer, you'll control the interface from conception to implementation, holding a central role on every product team
• This ensures not only that we design the right solution but that we're solving the right problem
• In this role, you'll be embedded in product teams focused on key user experiences of Quora
• Identify and execute high-impact opportunities for your product area, design features that align with business goals, and clearly communicate decision rationale
• Partner with user researchers and data scientists to understand user needs, and collaborate with product managers to design scalable solutions
• Develop globally scalable designs across platforms in consultation with engineers, gather feedback through design critiques, and work with data scientists and researchers to measure impact
• Design and implement new features while contributing to our design system
• Work autonomously and pragmatically execute multiple projects simultaneously