Product Designer, Partnerships and Brand Experience
About The Position
Thumbtack is seeking a Product Designer with excellent prototyping, motion, and brand/visual design skills to join their Partnerships team. This role is crucial for shaping how Thumbtack's brand system is represented across the product, bridging the gap between go-to-market design and in-product brand experience. The designer will use product design sensibility, storytelling, prototyping, and polish to support partnerships and go-to-market efforts. They will also translate brand system updates, such as iconography and motion language, into consistent, high-craft product experiences that extend beyond the Partnerships team. The role involves close collaboration with Business Development, Sales, Go-to-Market Operations, Product, and Brand teams. This position emphasizes visualizing new experiences, prototyping, animation, and production design, including creating interactive demos and motion-rich experiences for partners, and enhancing motion and brand craft in live product surfaces.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of product design experience.
- A blend of agency and in-house product design experience, supported by a strong portfolio.
- Advanced Figma prototyping skills, from low-fidelity flows to high-fidelity experiences with motion and interaction.
- Experience creating polished micro-interactions, transitions, and animations, with strong attention to craft, timing, and detail.
- Experience translating brand systems into product experiences through motion, iconography, and UI polish.
- Understanding of technical feasibility and ability to collaborate effectively with engineering partners.
- Strong communication and visual storytelling skills to align cross-functional stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead a significant portion of our product experience and be accountable for business outcomes
- Conduct user research and lightweight tests to scope and prioritize product initiatives
- Transform a vague, ambitious idea into a compelling business and product case, secure resources, and lead execution with clear success criteria.
- Champion deep learnings and insights as a core metric, valuing them alongside traditional metrics to fuel smarter, more innovative product decisions.
- Partner with marketing, engineers, designers, data and applied scientists to ideate, prioritize and deliver great solutions for our customers and professionals
- Coordinate within your team and among teams at Thumbtack to ensure understanding of and alignment around projects
- Drive a high-impact initiative from seed to scale, ensuring sustained focus by thoughtfully sunsetting or culling initiatives that do not meet success criteria.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
