Lead Product Designer
About Aspire
Aspire is a leading provider of influencer marketing software and services for social commerce at scale. Since 2014, Aspire has helped brands build and manage relationships with millions of influencers, inspiring marketers to think bigger, plan smarter, and deliver outsized value. Brands and creators use Aspire to find and vet each other, activate influencer marketing campaigns of any size, and put the magic of branded content to work at scale.
As a recognized leader by Forrester Research, Aspire has paid out over $100M to creators and is trusted by over 800 top brands from fashion to fitness and everything in between.
We’re growing across the board - and we're looking for a Lead Product Designer to join our distributed remote team! With a strong focus on growth and personal development, Aspire is the perfect place to develop your skills in a fast-paced, forward-thinking environment.
The role
We’re looking for an exceptionally talented Lead Product Designer to be a thought leader inside (and outside) of our organization. In this role, you'll be driving complex and high-impact design projects, requiring a broad set of design skills. As an individual contributor reporting directly to the VP of Design, you will join a small, but empowered design team that owns end-to-end design from ideation, research, and execution, for existing and new product lines. Success is measured by the quality of the user experience including the ease of use, consistency, impact, and beauty of the final product.
What you'll be doing
- Lead projects and initiatives by defining strategy and objectives for your product area
- Own the end-to-end experience for projects you work on
- Translate complex requirements into delightful product experiences
- Design information architecture, wireframes, user flows, and prototypes
- Conduct user research to identify pain points, determine priorities, and inform design decisions
- Contribute to product strategy through customer research and design explorations
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Design teams to develop and implement meaningful product and process changes
- Partner with the design team to set the vision for design and user experience across our customer touch points
What we’re looking for
- 5+ years of design experience at a product-driven company
- A professional portfolio of product work that demonstrates a high level of proficiency in product and visual design skills
- Experience designing SaaS products, with bonus points for experience designing data analytics tools, CRM’s, and/or marketing automation tools
- Exceptional skills in the craft and execution of product design work, from high-level strategic direction down to User Experience design details
- Strong leadership skills when it comes to owning the design process from end-to-end; ability to keep a project moving and drive thought leadership around design and product strategy.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; the ability to communicate decisions about product changes and improvements across the organization
- Excellent Figma skills including building best in class prototypes.
- Passion for improving the design process, taking the initiative to improve the way the design team operates within Aspire
Bonus Points
- Experience using Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects
- Experience working with CSS, React, and Node.js
Benefits and Perks
- Global Perks & Benefits
- $100/month Wellness & Internet
- Personalized growth plans
- $2500 annual education credits
- Unlimited PTO (flexible vacation policy)
- $400 equipment/remote setup budget
- US Only
- * 401k Plan
- * Health, vision, dental Insurance
Our Commitment to Diversity
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.