Staff Product Designer, Scribd
User Generated Content
$105.5-207.3k
Salary is dependent on candidates location This position is also eligible for a competitive equity ownership
E-book and audiobook subscription service
Job no longer available
E-book and audiobook subscription service
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$105.5-207.3k
Salary is dependent on candidates location This position is also eligible for a competitive equity ownership
201-500 employees
Company mission
To revolutionize the way the world reads and learns.
Role
Who you are
- You have 8+ years of experience as a product designer on B2C products, with demonstrable proficiency leading product strategy from early stage ideation through high fidelity design to product ship
- You are comfortable working closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and data scientists. You can synthesize and incorporate their points of view in your work
- You are someone who is excited by the challenges of reimagining an existing product, working with a team to forge an unknown path, and being the primary advocate for the user across an entire product experience
- You’re a strong communicator who has the ability to explain complex ideas clearly and persuasively, and present your work in a way that energizes and creates shared ownership for both leaders and peers. You also have the skills to mentor those around you to deliver high quality work
- You are fluent in UX, visual and interactive design best practices and have a strong knowledge of usability fundamentals and methodologies
- You are a talented designer with an impressive design portfolio that you can share with us. Applications without a portfolio are unlikely to be considered
- You work well with ambiguity and get excited about complex problems
- You are people-focused and passionate about designing experiences that have a positive impact
- You are proficient in Figma (our primary tool) or Sketch and prototyping tools of your choosing
- An experienced designer to own key initiatives and partner with product, engineering, research, and analytics to define strategy and direction
- Someone who loves crafting beautifully designed solutions based on insights from real people, and inspires the organization with a clear strategic vision to show others what’s possible
- A designer with an entrepreneurial spirit who’s enthusiastic about iterative improvements toward an innovative future vision
- Someone with a mastery of empathy and user experience intuition, strong leadership and strategic partnership, as well as a passion for visual polish
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a strong design leader who can help us reimagine the user experience to raise the bar and create a product our customers love and competitors strive to match
- This role focuses on providing our community of creators the tools and experience they need to help them complete their jobs to be done and explore our growing catalog of user-generated content (UGC)
- This role is critical to our company’s mission of inspiring the world through stories and knowledge, and will have the opportunity to make a huge impact
- Partner with product, data analytics, user research, QA, engineering, and customer support to identify requirements, use cases, user problems and opportunities
- Lead design projects from user problem, research, and concept exploration through usability testing, UX and visual design, and advocacy through development
- Use data collected from research, user testing and market evaluation to create truly user-centric designs
- Pair with our research department to plan and conduct user research, and test prototypes to understand user needs and emotions and the resonance of our product — synthesizing the results to inspire empathy, and bring clarity to the broader team
- Visualize and communicate complex design solutions across use cases by creating process flows, wireframes, motion studies, prototypes, and high fidelity mock-ups
- Develop and maintain detailed design documentation for short-term tactical projects and long-term vision work
- Work closely with engineers, stakeholders, and partners to ensure that the user experience is polished and as intended
- Use a variety of metrics to evaluate and continuously improve the user experience
- Regularly present your designs and ideas to leadership
Our take
The world's biggest site for social reading and publishing, Scribd's website has over 250 million unique visitors each month and a vast content library, consisting of over 200 million audiobooks, magazines, ebooks and newspapers as well as media created by the Scribd community.
While Scribd is the largest social reading site, it is not alone in offering this kind of media. It competes against some major players, the largest of which are Amazon's Kindle and Audible offerings, but also includes the likes of BookMate and the non-profit Internet Archive. Where it stands aside is in its feature-rich reader and the sheer diversity of its library, which, thanks to partnerships with several major publishers, features numerous popular titles as well as a range of independent creators.
Further differentiating it from competitors, the company taken a firm stand on social issues, in particular the recent wave of book bannings taking place across the United States. By making the banned titles freely available it hopes to do its part in preserving literary freedom. With this tendency showing no signs of slowing down, Scribd's intervention in this area could prove to be important.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2019
$58m
LATE VC
Jan 2015
$22m
LATE VC
Total funding: $105.9m
Company benefits
- Healthcare Insurance Coverage (Medical/Dental/Vision): 100% paid for employees
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- Short-term/long-term disability plans
- 401k/RSP matching
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Learning & Development programs
- Quarterly stipend for Wellness, Connectivity & Comfort
- Mental Health support & resources
- Free subscription to Scribd + gift memberships for friends & family
- Referral Bonuses
- Book Benefit
- Sabbaticals
- Company wide events
- Team engagement budgets
- Vacation & Personal Days
- Paid Holidays (+ winter break)
- Flexible Sick Time
- Volunteer Day
- Company-wide Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion programs
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Trip Adler
(CEO)Having studied at Harvard until 2006, they co-founded Scribd in March 2017. They have worked as CEO ever since then.
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