Senior Product Designer for Whatnot's Buyer Discovery pod, focusing on buyer-facing experiences in Ads and Notifications across mobile and web. The role is based in Los Angeles, CA with remote options, offering a salary range of USD 153,000 - 235,000 per year. The designer will collaborate across product, engineering, data, and design teams and report to a design leader, with the option to work remotely or from LA, SF, NY, or SEA hubs.
Responsibilities
- Design thoughtful, intuitive user experiences across buyer discovery surfaces on mobile and web.
- Contribute to the Messaging Platform that brings buyers back at the right moment with relevant, engaging content.
- Help shape Ad Experiences within discovery surfaces in ways that balance buyer relevance, seller value, and overall ecosystem health.
- Create flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI that clearly communicates design intent.
- Partner closely with product, engineering, data, and design peers to explore ideas, test hypotheses, and improve the user experience.
- Participate in critiques and feedback loops, and iterate quickly based on learnings.
- Sweat the details while keeping sight of the broader user and business goals.
Requirements
- Strong visual and interaction design fundamentals
- A portfolio that shows craft, clarity of thinking, and care for the end-to-end user experience
- Curiosity about how design can support both user needs and business outcomes
- Excitement to work on consumer-facing product experiences with high visibility and lots of iteration
- Comfort collaborating with product managers, engineers, and other designers
- A willingness to learn quickly, ask good questions, and incorporate feedback
- Strong communication skills in both verbal and written form
- High attention to detail and a desire to keep refining until the work feels right
Benefits
- Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
- Work From Home Support
- Home office setup allowance
- Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
- Care benefits
- Monthly allowance for wellness
- Annual allowance towards childcare
- Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
- Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
- Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
- All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. Employees are encouraged to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their role, supported by a dogfooding budget
- Parental Leave
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave plus one month gradual return to work; company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements
EOE
Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.
