Senior Product Designer

Skylight; San Francisco, Los Angeles (CA, CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Skylight as a Senior Product Designer, leveraging your expertise in UX/UI design to create innovative products that connect families. Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to affect change, drive metrics, and enhance product experiences for millions of users.

Benefits

401K matching

Health, Dental & Vision Medical Plans

Unlimited PTO

Company holidays on the first Friday of every month

Wellness, learning, and home-office budgets

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in consumer-facing mobile-first product design.
• Portfolio showcasing UX and UI design skills impacting business metrics.
• Demonstrated use of user research in product design.

Responsibilities

• Validate ideas by talking to customers and building intuitive product experiences.
• Drive the product roadmap with insights and collaborative strategies.
• Own end-to-end design across multiple features and projects.

Skills

User Research

UX Design

UI Design

Collaboration

Scrappiness

Growth Mindset

Job description

About Skylight

Skylight is a technology startup with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Minneapolis. Our mission is to connect loved ones by creating the world’s simplest products and services that improve family life. We make consumer products, like Skylight Frame and Skylight Calendar, that are loved by millions of people across the globe. Our founders are former venture capitalists and serial entrepreneurs, who have scaled this business to $180M+ in annual revenue while being completely bootstrapped and profitable. We think often about the thousands of smiles we are able to put on our customers’ faces each day, and it fills our hearts with purpose. That’s why we have been working hard to expand our team and invent, so that we can continue to bring the magic of Skylight to millions of loved ones throughout the world.

At Skylight, we have three values that guide our work and help us manage the business day to day: Autonomy, rigor, and care. These values show up early and often and help guide the work we do and the way we work.

About the role

As our Senior Product Designer, you'll leverage your expertise to collaborate with cross-functional teams, steering the creation, validation, and launch of product ideas. In partnership with Product and Engineering, you'll act as a product owner, contributing to process enhancements across the entire product development lifecycle. We're seeking a candidate experienced in influencing key performance indicators and driving metrics forward.

Reporting to the Director of Product Design, you will:

• Rigorously validate ideas and solutions by talking to customers
• Build simple, intuitive product experiences that solve deep customer pains
• Help drive the product roadmap with customer insights and a cohesive strategy
• Work collaboratively with Product and Engineering partners from concept through completion and future iterations
• Own the end-to-end design (interaction flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity work, etc.) across multiple features and projects
• Build a cohesive visual language across our products
• Work with the engineering team to implement the design, adjusting scope as needed to ship on time

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in end-to-end consumer-facing mobile-first product design.
• A portfolio of work that demonstrates a breadth of both UX and UI design skills with a proven impact on business metrics.
• Humble, collaborative, and service-oriented approach to your career
• Scrappiness, a growth mindset, high-velocity output, and bias for action
• Passion for connecting people and facilitating meaningful relationships through products.
• Demonstrated use of user research and data in your product design portfolio.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering 0-1 products from concept to launch.
• Background in consumer-facing apps (bonus points if subscription-based).
• Experience with software design incorporating hardware components.
• General e-commerce design experience
• Leadership in product direction and strategic thinking.

Join Skylight and play a pivotal role in shaping products that bring joy to millions of families worldwide. Apply your design expertise and be part of a collaborative, innovative team committed to excellence.

Our competitive compensation package includes:

• Competitive Salary + Equity Package
• 401K matching
• Wellness, learning, and home-office budgets
• Health, Dental & Vision Medical Plans
• Tremendous autonomy to set the direction of your work
• Unlimited PTO
• Company holidays on the first Friday of every month (February through October)

Equal opportunity employer

Skylight is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you’re the best person for the job, we want you on board!

We hire across the U.S., but for legal reasons, we have to list certain States separately.

For Colorado-based candidates, the range being offered for this role is $140K-160K based on experience and for California-based candidates, the range being offered for this role is $140K-160K based on experience. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of this law.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.