Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Senior Product Designer, Growth to shape the growth and lifecycle experience across Everand and Fable. This role focuses on subscription journey design, experimentation, and high-craft execution that improves key subscriber metrics.
Role overview
Everand and Fable are central to Scribd, Inc.’s Premium business, reaching more than 1.4 million readers every month. Growth is defined as moving a curious reader into a engaged community member, converting a free user into a long-term subscriber, and guiding casual subscribers toward habits they rely on.
You will design experiences across onboarding, plans and pricing, referrals, and lifecycle. The work includes partnering with Product, Research, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to identify opportunities, run experiments, and ship design work that impacts real numbers. At this level, you will contribute to leading vision and strategy across growth and lifecycle, reporting to the Director of Product Design and working alongside 6 Premium product and brand designers.
Key responsibilities
- Own critical moments that convert readers to subscribers, including onboarding, plans and pricing, referrals, and lifecycle.
- Identify natural ways to connect Fable’s community with Everand’s library.
- Propose what to test, then partner with your PM to scope experiments and define success metrics.
- Increase subscriber outcomes without relying on dark patterns or tricks.
- Move concepts into production-ready work while maintaining attention to detail.
- Develop a strong visual voice across two distinct brands and define new patterns when systems fall short.
- Prototype early, including in code when appropriate; use AI to explore more ideas; validate through usability testing before shipping.
- Analyze results to identify where the journey underperforms and provide a point of view on what to try next.
- Ground decisions in research, competitive insight, and observed customer behavior.
- Share work early and often to support designers around you in strengthening their craft.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product design experience, including meaningful time in growth, monetization, or subscription product work.
- Distinct visual craft, strong interaction design, and the ability to reach high-quality outcomes quickly.
- Experience shipping experiments that improved conversion, activation, retention, and/or revenue, with an understanding of why changes worked.
- Comfort thinking in journeys rather than screens, including defining direction when the path is not clear.
- Daily use of AI to explore, prototype, and interpret outputs, with the ability to hold AI-assisted work to the same bar as your own.
- Strong interest in reading and the ability to articulate opinions about discovery, sharing, and long-term engagement with books.
- Ability to justify design decisions with both data and taste.
- Bonus: motion design, consumer subscription apps, mobile, or community and social product experience.
Location and schedule
New York, NY (onsite). Occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd, Inc. employees, regardless of location.
Team and working style
Scribd, Inc.’s Design organization is a 25-person team spanning Product Design, Research, and Brand Design, working across Everand, Fable, Scribd, and Slideshare. The team emphasizes initiative, proximity to customers, open debate, high craft standards, and genuine ownership with trust to run.
They also focus on growth with clear career paths, celebrate wins, learn from losses, and maintain a culture that includes laughter through challenges.
Benefits
- Scribd Flex (flexible work model)
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Mental health support and disability coverage
- Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals
- Paid parental leave and family support benefits
- Retirement matching and employee equity
- Learning and development programs and professional growth opportunities
- Wellness and home office stipends
- Complimentary access to the Scribd, Inc. suite of products
- Enterprise access to leading AI tools
Compensation
USD 106,000 - 194,000 per year. Reasonably expected salary range in the state of California: between $129,000 to $194,000. Reasonably expected salary range in the United States outside of California: between $106,000 to $184,000. Reasonably expected salary range in Canada: between $136,500 CAD to $174,000 CAD.
Application
- Resume.
- Portfolio with 3+ case studies showing growth impact, strong visual craft, and a point of view grounded in the why, including at least one test that did not win and what was learned.
- Password, if applicable.
Eligibility notes
Employees must have their primary residence in or near Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Houston, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, or Washington D.C., or in or near Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, or in or near Mexico City. The posting also includes a question about whether you are currently based in a location where Scribd, Inc. can employ you.
