Senior Product Designer, Video (Remote)
The Gig
Squarespace is a design-centered product company whose mission is to be the all-in-one platform for anyone who wants to stand out. You will be challenged in an organization that values vision, execution, and determination. Product Designers at Squarespace are embedded within multidiscipline teams that are collaborative, and each member is directly responsible for their team's strategy and overall success.
Video is the most compelling medium of our time. It allows you to learn a new skill, share a heartwarming moment, or even make a living. We're looking for a Senior Product Designer passionate about what they do and excited about the potential video has for our creators. We're not settling with the baseline video experience on today's web, we're in pursuit of defining the potential for our creators. Help us build the future of video for the millions of creators using our service.
You'll work with a Senior Staff Product Designer on the Video team and report to the Product Design Manager.
All Squarespace employees are working remotely at this time. We are closely monitoring the status of COVID-19 as we continue our work to build a return-to-work plan that ensures a safe return to our offices and provides flexibility for our employee
You'll get to...
- Attain and maintain an understanding of our customers
- Create prototypes to evaluate the viability, feasibility, and marketability of our bets
- Work with product and engineering teams from concept, delivery, and post-delivery engagement metrics
- Establish essential metrics to track growth and promote team understanding around goals and priorities
- Partner with research on testing plans and ways to measure success
- Facilitate user research and testing, ensuring usability and product consistency
- Work with our Design Systems team to ensure your work integrates into our ecosystem
Who we're looking for
- 4+ years of experience designing for a product or service using video.
- Deep experience with sketching, wireframes, visual design, and prototyping for product experiences.
- Experience facilitating user research, usability testing and storytelling skills with the ability to tailor your context to different audiences.
- Comprehension of information architecture, service design and experience using a systems approach to design.
- Passion for our product and the impact that it has in the world.
A portfolio of relevant design work is required for consideration. It should illustrate your involvement and how you contributed to solving specific problems.
Benefits & Perks
- Health insurance with 100% premium covered for you and your dependent children
- Fertility and adoption benefits
- Retirement benefits with employer match
- Flexible vacation & paid time off
- Up to 20 weeks of paid family leave
- Equity plan for all employees
- Pretax commuter benefits
- Education reimbursement
- Employee donation match to community organizations
- 7 Employee Resource Groups across locations
- Dog-friendly workplace
- Free lunch and snacks
- Private rooftop
About Squarespace
Squarespace is a leading all-in-one website building and ecommerce platform that enables millions to build a brand and transact with their customers in an impactful and beautiful online presence. Our suite of products enables anyone at any stage of their journey to manage their projects and businesses through websites, domains, ecommerce, marketing tools, and scheduling, along with tools for managing a social media presence with Unfold and hospitality business management via Tock. Squarespace democratizes access to best-in-class design, helping our customers in approximately 200 countries and territories maintain consistent branding across all digital touchpoints to stand out online. Our team of more than 1,400 is headquartered in downtown New York City, with offices in Dublin, Ireland, Portland, Oregon, Los Angeles, California and Chicago, Illinois. For more information, visit www.squarespace.com.
Our Commitment
Today, more than a million people around the globe use Squarespace to share different perspectives and experiences with the world. Not only do we embrace and celebrate the diversity of our customer base, but we also strive for the same in our employees. At Squarespace, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.