Staff Product Designer, Discovery

Thrive Market; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Equity

401k plan

9 observed holidays

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Thrive Market is seeking a Staff Designer embedded in the Discovery Pod to own search and browse end-to-end. You’ll shape information architecture, taxonomy, and filtering while partnering with data and ML teams to translate model behavior into a trusted member experience.

You will mentor designers, evolve the design system, and advocate for accessibility across products, collaborating with product managers, engineers, and researchers to deliver scalable, user-centered solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in product design or UX/UI with end-to-end ownership.
• Portfolio showing user-centered, interaction, and visual design.
• Hands-on with Figma and other standard tools.
• Experience with user research methods and A/B testing.
• Strong collaboration and communication with cross-functional partners.
• P5 background in ecommerce, subscriptions, or consumer digital products.

Responsibilities

• Own information architecture and taxonomy decisions for search and browse, including category structure, filtering and faceting logic, and sort and ranking behavior.
• Design for search relevance, including zero and low result states.
• Partner with data and ML teams on search ranking and personalization signals, translating model behavior into a coherent, explainable member experience.
• Lead end-to-end design efforts across key initiatives, from discovery through execution.
• Collaborate with product designers, product managers, engineers, data analysts, and data scientists to design intuitive and trustworthy member experiences.
• Align with Product Managers and Engineers on goals, constraints, and feasibility.
• Advocate for accessibility and inclusive design across products.
• Contribute to and evolve the design system, collaborating with the design system owner as needed, to keep it consistent and scalable.
• Mentor other designers with feedback and guidance that supports the whole team.
• Design filter and facet UX that scales as catalog size and attribute complexity grow

Skills

Product design

UX/UI

Collaboration

Communication

Tools

Figma

Job description

ABOUT THRIVE MARKET

Thrive Market was founded in 2014 with a mission to make healthy and sustainable living easy and affordable for everyone. As an online, membership-based market, we deliver the highest quality healthy, and sustainable products at member-only prices, while matching every paid membership with a free one for someone in need. Every day, we leverage innovative technology and member-first thinking to help our over 1,700,000+ members find better products, support better brands, and build a better world in the process. We are also a Certified B Corporation, a Public Benefit Corporation, and a Climate Neutral Certified company.

Join us as we bring healthy and sustainable living to millions of Americans in the years to come.

THE ROLE

You'll join Thrive Market's Product Design team as a Staff Designer embedded in the Discovery Pod, owning search and browse end to end. You'll work alongside the existing design team, bringing strategic clarity to each initiative you own rather than just executing what's in front of you.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own information architecture and taxonomy decisions for search and browse, including category structure, filtering and faceting logic, and sort and ranking behavior.
• Design for search relevance, including zero and low result states.
• Partner with data and ML teams on search ranking and personalization signals, translating model behavior into a coherent, explainable member experience.
• Lead end-to-end design efforts across key initiatives, from discovery through execution.
• Collaborate with product designers, product managers, engineers, data analysts, and data scientists to design intuitive and trustworthy member experiences.
• Align with Product Managers and Engineers on goals, constraints, and feasibility.
• Advocate for accessibility and inclusive design across products.
• Contribute to and evolve the design system, collaborating with the design system owner as needed, to keep it consistent and scalable.
• Mentor other designers with feedback and guidance that supports the whole team.
• Design filter and facet UX that scales as catalog size and attribute complexity grow

QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years of product design or UX/UI experience, with demonstrated ownership of end-to-end initiatives at a senior to staff level.
• A portfolio that demonstrates strong user-centered design, interaction design, and visual design skills.
• Hands-on expertise in Figma and other industry standard design tools.
• Experience applying user research methods and A/B testing to inform data driven design decisions.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate design rationale to cross-functional partners.
• P5 Background working in e-commerce, subscription-based businesses, or consumer-facing digital products.

BELONG TO A BETTER COMPANY

• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
• Competitive salary (DOE) + equity
• 401k plan
• 9 Observed Holidays
• Flexible Paid Time Of