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Senior Product Designer II - Lifecycle & Growth

Leads ambiguous, high-impact lifecycle and growth design initiatives across partnerships, incentives, conversion, reactivation, and retention. Requires 7+ years of consumer digital product design experience, exceptional interaction and visual craft, and strong prototyping skills.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Lead high-impact growth initiatives across partnerships, incentives, and lifecycle experiences from ambiguous problem framing through launch.
  • Reimagine customer-journey moments including discovery, value communication, conversion, reactivation, and retention.
  • Blend product thinking, brand, content, interaction design, and business mechanics into cohesive experiences.
  • Explore and prototype content models, flows, interaction patterns, motion, and messaging.
  • Design complex, multi-step journeys spanning multiple surfaces and teams.
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Content Design, Research, Brand, and Data Science.
  • Use customer insight, experimentation, and business metrics to evaluate tradeoffs and iterate toward measurable impact.
  • Define scalable patterns and interaction models for broader growth experiences.
  • Use prototypes, AI-enabled tools, and emerging workflows to accelerate exploration and learning.
  • Raise the craft bar through visual and interaction design, storytelling, and clear design rationale.

Requirements

  • 7+ years designing consumer-facing digital products across web and mobile.
  • Portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual, interaction, and product craft, including strong 0-to-1 work.
  • Deep interaction design expertise, including motion, micro-interactions, prototyping, and product behavior.
  • Strong conceptual thinking and ability to turn ambiguous opportunities into compelling product experiences.
  • Ability to design complex journeys while balancing customer needs, business goals, technical constraints, and craft.
  • Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to articulate design rationale and influence cross-functional partners.
  • Ability to operate autonomously from early concept through polished execution.
  • Fluency with AI-enabled tools and workflows for exploration, prototyping, and product development.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience in growth, subscriptions, marketplaces, commerce, or high-scale consumer products.
  • Experience connecting brand and product experiences.
  • Strong prototyping or motion skills using Figma, Framer, ProtoPie, code, or similar tools.
  • Experience exploring AI-powered product experiences or integrating AI into design and prototyping.

Compensation

  • US salary range: $169,000–$214,000 annually, with location-dependent compensation.
  • Eligible for a new-hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
  • Benefits provided according to the employee's work location.

Skills

Product Design, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Motion Design, Prototyping, Figma, Framer, Protopie, User Research, Experimentation, AI Tools, Mobile Design

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