Product Designer

Whalar Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

PTO & Sick days

Winter break

Retirement match

Phone stipend

Professional development

Home office allowance

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Volunteer days

Identity protection

Life & disability insurance

Pet insurance

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Whalar Group is seeking a Product Designer to own a set of existing product surfaces end to end, understanding usage, refining them, and shipping improvements at a steady cadence with product and engineering. You’ll join a small design team where collaboration with product partners shapes direction and rapid user testing informs decisions.

You’ll help design across mobile and desktop, build interactive prototypes with engineers, and contribute to a shared design system while maintaining a strong

Qualifications

• Portfolio shows range across industries or products and adaptability.
• Experience in startup environments with shifting priorities.
• Strong craft in components, variants, responsive layouts, prototyping.
• Ability to form opinions from incomplete information and test with users.
• Clear communicator who works across US/European time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own the experience of established product lines from diagnosis to shipping.
• Interpret briefs and deliver solutions that exceed expectations.
• Design across mobile and desktop in real-world states with intent.
• Build interactive prototypes for engineers to feel, not just read.
• Contribute to and reuse a shared design system with patterns.
• Run quick user sessions and integrate learnings.

Skills

Portfolio range

Startup experience

Resilience

Ambiguity tolerance

Design craft

Asynchronous communication

Job description

Job Title: Product Designer

Work Location: East Coast (Remote)

Start Date: ASAP

Foam, part of Whalar Group, is the operating system for managing digital talent. Foam is a suite of intuitive pitching tools and AI-enhanced features powered by real-time, certified metrics from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Snap. Foam empowers managers with the data they need to analyze content performance, inform talent negotiations, and maximize brand opportunities. With over 40,000 Creators and hundreds of millions of integrated data points, Foam streamlines the entire pitching process, eliminating spreadsheets, screenshots, and slides, allowing managers to focus on providing strategic support to their talent. Learn more at foam.io.

About the role:

Foam builds software for the people who run the business side of the creator economy - managers, agencies and the brands they work with. The product is live, growing, and being reshaped quickly.

We're hiring a Product Designer to own a set of existing product surfaces end to end: understand how they're used, sharpen them, and ship improvements at a steady cadence, working directly with product and engineering.

You'll join a small design team and work in a culture where product partners bring a clear point of view, design materialises it, and we test it with real users fast.

Here's what you'll do day-to-day:

• Own the experience of established product lines: diagnose, redesign, iterate, and ship.
• Take a brief that's more conversation than document and return with something better than was asked for.
• Design across the full range of real-world states - sparse data, dense data, mobile, desktop, embedded and standalone - so every variation feels intentional.
• Build interactive prototypes that engineers can feel, not just read.
• Work inside a shared, evolving design system, reusing existing patterns by default and proposing new ones only where they earn their place.
• Run lightweight user sessions on your own prototypes and fold what you learn back in.

Here's what we're looking for:

• A portfolio that shows range: more than one industry or product type, and evidence you've oriented quickly in unfamiliar territory.
• Startup-native. You've lived through priorities changing mid-flight and kept a good attitude about it.
• Low ego, high resilience. A rejected design is normal Tuesday work, not a verdict.
• Comfortable with ambiguity. You form a point of view from incomplete information, commit, and let users tell you whether you were right.
• Strong craft - components, variants, responsive layouts, prototyping - with a real eye for visual detail.
• Clear, direct communicator who works well asynchronously across US and European time zones.

Our values:

At Whalar, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) isn't just a statement, it's our collective strength. Our people are our superpower. A diverse team and inclusive leadership have shaped Whalar since our inception in 2016, fueling a constant evolution of growth. We champion a culture of respect and empathy, fostering a sense of belonging that transcends demographics. We hire individuals of all backgrounds and empower them to thrive, challenge stereotypes, and actively break societal barriers.

The perks:

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 25 days of PTO + Sick days + Winter break
• Retirement planning with employer match
• Monthly phone/internet reimbursement
• Professional development stipend
• New joiner's Home office allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Volunteer days
• Identity theft protection & Legal assistance
• Company Paid Life & Disability Insurance
• Voluntary Life Insurance Policy
• Voluntary Hospital and Critical Illness Insurance
• Voluntary Pet insurance
• Employee Resource Groups

Whalar provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Equal opportunity extends to all aspects of the employment relationship, including hiring, promotions, training, working conditions, compensation, and benefits.