What’s so interesting about this role?
We are looking for a well-rounded Principal Product Designer who has a passion for conceiving and executing simple and impactful interfaces for the queer community. Grindr is a huge, uniquely important app, and you’ll be part of a small team that shapes the direction and future of a product used by millions of people a month. This is an opportunity to directly affect the lives of millions of people through your aesthetic, interaction, and product choices.
What’s the Job?
- Design valuable, cohesive, and delightful user experiences for Grindr.
- Being an active mentor for senior designers, and helping lead critique, design reviews, and quarterly planning.
- Oversee multiple initiatives from insight to strategy, to launch across all platforms and devices.
- Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists, and Researchers to define problems & goals, map user flows, prototype interactions, and launch new products and services.
- Build strong relationships with leaders inside and outside of core product teams; strong communication and executive stakeholder management skills
- Have a keen understanding of technological, business and user opportunities and constraints.
- Scope project work (in partnership with PMs and engineers) and help define the design process and timeline.
- Always be an advocate for our users.
- Stay up-to-date with mobile app design trends, best practices, patterns, new capabilities, etc., and use this knowledge to push the product forward.
What We’ll Love About You
- Experience: 10+ years of experience in product design, UI design, and/or UX design in a fast-paced environment.
- An outstanding portfolio, showcasing excellent visual and interaction skills and craft —mastery in your field.
- Highly collaborative. Able to build trust & strong relationships at all levels, influence without formal authority, and push back when appropriate.
- Demonstrated ability to help a team navigate ambiguity, set vision, and set strategy for global products.
- Confident in your own skill but respectful of the contributions of others.
- Experimental by nature, excited and knowledgeable about A/B testing and user research.
- Strong storytelling, presentation, communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Deep experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working with cross-functional teams including development, product management, and product research.
- Knowledgeable of industry and platform-specific patterns.
- Can effortlessly motivate and drive small to medium teams to transform a product.
- Experience designing for both Android, iOS and Responsive web.
- Experience with Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Proto.io (or other prototyping tools) is a must.
- Experience working on a live app.
We’ll Really Swoon if You have
- Front-end web development skills
- Experience designing for social media or dating apps
- Experience with animation and/or motion design
- Experience conducting exploratory user research and usability testing
- Experience with quantitative data gathering and surveys
- Experience in the Anti-Abuse or Trust & Safety domains
What you'll love about us
- Mission and Impact: Grindr is the world-leading LGBTQ social networking service. Your role will impact the lives of millions of LGBTQ people around the world
- Multiple Locations: We currently have offices in LA, NYC, and Chicago, and are hiring someone for this role to be based ideally in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, or Chicago
- Family Insurance: Insurance premium coverage for health, dental, and vision for you and partial coverage for your dependents
- Retirement Savings: Generous 401K plan with 6% match and immediate vest in the US
- Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation and eligibility for company bonus and equity programs
- Queer-Inclusive Benefits: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more
- Additional Benefits: Flexible vacation policy, monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, and food, one-time home-office setup stipend, and company-sponsored events
