Product Designer, Partnerships and Brand Experience

Thumbtack

32d

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 will focus on how Thumbtack's brand system is represented across the product, bridging go-to-market design with in-product brand experience. The designer will pair product design sensibility with storytelling, prototyping, and polish to accelerate 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. This role involves close collaboration with Business Development, Sales, Go-to-Market Operations, Product, and Brand teams. The position requires a significant focus on 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.