Senior Designer, Product Creative

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

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The Product Creative team designs all the branded visuals and global styles that appear on Reddit including icons, illustrations, animations and many aspects of the user interface. We are looking for a Senior Product Designer with strong skills in visual creativity, product thinking and experience solving complex problems at scale to join us!

This hybrid visual/product designer position will be among the most brand- and visually-focused UX roles at Reddit. As a member of this team, you will be responsible for driving constant improvements to the look and feel across Reddit’s consumer apps and websites. You will create systems and patterns for other internal teams and designers to apply in their feature work with the goal of simplifying Reddit for all of our users. Our team is incredibly cross-functional and requires close collaboration with other designers across the UX organization as well as Content Designers, Software Engineers, UX Researchers and Brand/Marketing designers whose collective goal is to create a world-class visual brand for Reddit’s user interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on the design system, frameworks and patterns that define the Reddit brand on our platform while balancing designer needs with system complexity.
• Improve UX globally by enforcing design system usage and ensuring brand consistency across the consumer platform.
• Envision the future visual evolution of Reddit and help plan the roadmap to get there.
• Develop distinct visual sub-brands for special or seasonal experiences that still feel related to the core Reddit brand.
• Drive consensus across diverse teams through effective exploration, communication, and presentation to design peers and senior leadership.
• Lead design efforts from early concepting through final execution, focusing on both strategy and detailed craft.
• Give constructive feedback in design reviews to push the quality and vision of the work.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience between both product and visual design, ideally in a tech company or agency.
• A strong portfolio showcasing highly crafted UI design, product design, systematic thinking and brand-related work potentially including 2D, 3D, animation or illustration.
• Strong writing, presentation, and storytelling skills that can explain design decisions clearly and push for them across teams.
• Experience designing successfully for multiple brands simultaneously as typically happens in design agencies.
• Proven bulletproof craft and execution across different media, including static and motion design, with a keen understanding of post-production workflows.
• A passion for design systems, Reddit’s mission and pushing the boundaries of brand and product integration.
• Humble, curious, and motivated to ship the best product
• Expertise in design software, including Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and optionally 3D tools such as Blender, Cinema 4D, or similar.

Bonus Points:

• 6+ years professional work experience between both product and visual design, ideally in a tech company or digital agency.
• At least one year of experience working in house as a Product or UI /Visual Designer at a consumer tech company
• A strong portfolio showcasing highly crafted UI design, product design, systematic thinking and brand-related work potentially including 2D, 3D, animation or illustration.
• Excellent writing, presentation, and storytelling skills that explain and advocate for design decisions clearly across teams.
• Experience creating and delivering specs to engineers and an understanding of the practical application of a design or document when it comes to collaborating with technical teams
• Experience designing