Product Designer, visual focus

rednote; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

rednote is seeking a Product Designer to bridge brand vision with a visually-forward in-app experience for a consumer mobile app.

You will define iconography, typography, color, and motion, and evolve the visual design system across core surfaces. Collaboration with Product, Community & Brand, and Engineering will ensure alignment and high visual standards.

The role emphasizes craft, visual rigor, and emotional resonance, with ownership of visual design from end-to-end for a mobile-first product.

Qualifications

• Experience shaping foundational design systems and visual identity.
• Strong portfolio showing mobile UI, typography, iconography, color, and motion work.
• Ability to collaborate with product, brand, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Bridge brand vision with UI components for a consumer mobile app.
• Define icon sets, typography, color system, and motion language end-to-end.
• Own and evolve design system components with clear documentation.
• Partner with Product, Brand, and cross-functional teams to maintain high visual standards.
• Conduct reviews with engineering to ensure motion fidelity across iOS and Android.
• Direct micro-interactions and visual storytelling for onboarding and launches.

Skills

Product design

Design systems

Mobile UI

Typography

Motion design

Tools

Figma

Framer

Adobe XD

Job description

We’re a lifestyle community company with a simple but powerful mission: Inspire life. We believe technology can help people discover new ideas, share meaningful moments, build communities, and express themselves creatively. Our platform is designed for everyday wonder—whether that means finding inspiration, learning something new, or connecting with people and content that matter.

About the role

We are seeking an innovative and driven Product Designer to bridge high-level brand vision with a new visual-forward in-app product experience. In this role, you will dive deeply into foundational product design languages—iconography, typography, color palettes, motion, layout systems—ensuring every product touchpoint expresses our core brand vision with craft, visual rigor, and emotional resonance.

Responsibilities

• Bridge the overarching product vision and brand strategy with visual identity, UI components, and core product surfaces across a consumer mobile app.
• Define and reimagine the foundational icon sets, logos, illustration guidelines, typography, and color system discovery from end to end.
• Own and evolve visual design system components and author clear templates, documentations, and guidelines for the broader organization across core user journey.
• Partner closely with Product, Community & Brand, and other cross-functional partners to maintain high visual standards across product UI surfaces, in-app user touchpoints, marketing campaign channels, and more.
• Conduct design reviews with engineering to guarantee execution, motion fidelity, and visual consistency across iOS and Android builds.
• Art-direct micro-interactions, motion graphics, and visual storytelling assets to elevate key user moments like onboarding and feature launches campaigns.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in product design, visual design, or design systems, with a track record of working on design foundations (e.g., typography, iconography, logo execution, color palette).
• Strong proficiency in building, scaling, and maintaining mobile design systems in consumer-facing mobile experiences.
• Deep experience with modern design tools and frontend component structures.
• Experiences in art-directing motion/illustration, conducting design reviews, and partnering cross-functionally with product and brand/marketing teams to align visual guidelines.
• A portfolio demonstrating high craft, visual refinement, systematic component architecture, and polished UI execution for mobile apps. Experiences creating interactive prototypes for product 0-1 is preferred.

Why Join Us

• Founding impact: Direct input into the visual, cultural, and strategic design direction of a founding global initiative.
• High ownership: design autonomy over core surface areas of the mobile experience.
• Fast-paced innovation: A culture built around fast execution, creative exploration, and pushing design boundaries.