Product Designer, Shutterstock
UX Design Systems
Royalty-free media library
Job no longer available
Royalty-free media library
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help creative professionals from all backgrounds and businesses of all sizes produce their best work with incredible content and innovative tools, all on one platform.
Role
Who you are
- You have proven experience as a product designer, with a focus on creating and maintaining design systems
- You have designed for a variety of screen sizes ranging from desktop to mobile
- You have a deep understanding of design principles, user interface design, information architecture, and interaction design best practices
- You have collaborated with cross-functional teams, including product designers, engineers, marketing creative designers, and product managers
- You have experience working with Storybook,
- A plus if you have front-end development, and/or frameworks (HTML, CSS, JS, React, iOS, Android)
- A plus if you have e-commerce experience
- A plus if you have localization and/or accessibility experience
- A plus if you have some experience in prototyping micro interactions, motion, and animation
- You are a curious, passionate, motivated, and proactive teammate. You are comfortable with taking what is ambiguous and making it tangible by leveraging systems and design thinking techniques
- You’ll have a portfolio that showcases your work, provides details of your role on projects, and shows expertise in designing and implementing design systems for large-scale products
What the job involves
- Shutterstock is on an amazing journey to pursue our vision of being the creative partner that empowers our customers to tell the best version of their stories
- As part of this mission, we are looking for a systems thinking Product Designer who is a creative problem-solver to lead and build a state-of-the-art design system for Shutterstock and our portfolio of brands (Pond5, PremiumBeat, and TurboSquid)
- Your work will empower our customers to achieve success in their creative endeavors
- This requires a designer who is curious about how users behave, can identify usage patterns, design concepts, test, iterate, learn, and manage their timelines to ensure a smooth roll out
- This is an exciting opportunity to work in a collaborative environment, where through agility we ship quickly, and through experimentation we learn what resonates with our users to improve their experience
- Own and lead the design of our in-house figma-based design systems, components, and pattern library
- Help develop scalable and flexible global design documentation and guidelines to maintain clean and consistent user interfaces across our brands
- Collaborate with product designers to understand net new patterns to be codified and update existing ones based on experimentation results, usage analytics, and user feedback
- Partner closely with front-end engineers on the implementation of and keeping Storybook in-sync with the design system to ensure we have consistent end-to-end experiences across all our brand sites
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to bring innovative design ideas to the table
- Be our go to expert on all things Figma so you can unlock the design team’s velocity via the latest updates and innovative plugins
- Extensively post GIFs and emojis throughout Slack channels
- What does success in the first six months look like?
- Run an assessment of our current Shutterstock design system, come up with a list of recommendations, a timeline for implementation, and execute that work
- Work with the front-end engineering team to stand-up Storybook and get it to an MVP state
- Start developing new design systems for our PremiumBeat and TurboSquid brands
- Maintain our Pond5 design system
- Assess how we’re using Figma and come up with a list of recommendations for how we can better leverage it to unlock design velocity, consistency, and quality
Our take
Shutterstock is a global leader in licensed images, videos, and music, serving creative professionals like designers, filmmakers, and marketers. Content creators upload their work, which is then used by businesses and media organizations in various projects. It's a two-sided marketplace that fuels creativity worldwide.
Shutterstock offers a variety of plans for individuals, teams, and enterprise customers as well as creative editing and collaboration capabilities. Their aim is to build sophisticated tools to help the world experience images and videos in a more beautiful way - they believe that the harmonious union of design and technology can influence global communication.
Shuttershock's brand portfolio includes Bigstock, Offset, PremiumBeat, Rex Features, and Shutterstock Customer, adding hundreds of thousands of images weekly. It has also expanded into generative AI, fairly licensing artists' work for AI-generated content. And in 2026, the company announced a huge proposed merger of equals with Getty Images, receiving US regulatory clearance and positioning the combined company for greater scale, financial strength, and long-term innovation.
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Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flexibility: We offer a hybrid model that’s centered around flexibility and enabling collaboration, innovation, and accountability—no matter where we are.
- Connection: Whether online or on site, we make sure there are plenty of ways to connect and have fun.
- Recognition: We never miss an opportunity to celebrate our achievements and commend great work through our global recognition program.
- Empowerment: We offer generous and competitive compensation packages, PTO, wellness initiatives, on-and-off working hours, tuition reimbursement, and an employee referral bonus.
- Growth: Our SkillUP Program lets you take ownership of your personal development through virtual learning offerings.
- Belonging: Our goal is to build a workforce that’s representative of the diverse global community we serve, and where all employees can come to work as their authentic selves.
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Jon Oringer
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Previously Board Member at Partnership for New York City for 6 years and Founder, CEO at SurfSecret Software for 5 years.
Paul Hennessy
(CEO)Paul previously held CEO roles at Vroom.com and Priceline.com. He was also the CMO at Booking.com and the Chief Distribution Officer/SVP of Online Marketing at Priceline.com
Rik Powell
(CFO)Rik joined Shutterstock in 2024 as a Senior VP of Finance and Investor Relations, moving into the role of CFO later that same year. Prior to this, he was a Senior VP of Finance and Investor Relations at Shake Shack. He also spent over 16 years at Getty Images, joining as a Director before holding various roles and becoming CFO.
Sara Birmingham
(Chief Human Resource Officer)Prior to joining Shutterstock in 2020, Sara was a HR Advisor at Out East. She was also the founder of Jump HR Consulting where she served as the CEO for just over 1 year. Prior to this, she spent 18 years at Thomson Reuters in various HR roles.
John Lapham
(General Counsel)Prior to joining Shutterstock in 2021, John was part of the General Counsel and SVP Government Affairs at Rover.com. He was also on the General Counsel and an SVP of Digital Media, Technology and eCommerce sectors at Getty Images for nearly 15 years.
Aimee Egan
(Chief Enterprise Officer)Prior to joining Shutterstock in 2023, Aimee was the CCO at ACA Group. She also spent over 11 years at Thomson Reuters in various roles, including VP of Growth and Market Development and GM of Small/Mid Market Corporations.
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