Product Designer

Shade.inc•New York City, NY

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Shade is scaling fast and is looking for an experienced product designer to join full-time as their 3rd design hire. This role involves working closely with the founding designer, CEO, and another product designer. Shade is building a platform for creative teams, focusing on eliminating tedious aspects of creative work such as waiting for downloads, manually tagging files, sorting archives, and license verification. The company operates at the file system level, positioning itself as critical infrastructure for media storage, access, and leverage. This is an opportunity to join a rapidly growing startup on the ground floor.

Requirements

2-3 years of experience, preferably at a scaling startup (Series A and beyond).
Experience with maintaining and scaling complex design systems across mobile, web, and desktop.
Figma expert: fluent in variables, auto-layout, responsive design, prototyping, and component library management.
Experience in design-developer handoff.
Shipped work across mediums (web, desktop, and mobile) with live links.
Ability to organize work in Figma, including flow structure, theme organization, or token naming.

Nice To Haves

Motion graphics / product animation experience (AE, Jitter, Flutter, etc.).
Graphic design experience, including making YouTube thumbnails (Figma and/or Photoshop).
Comfortable making product mockups in Photoshop.
Framer experience.
Experience beyond product design, such as animation, data visualization, illustration, editorial, packaging.

Responsibilities

Work closely with founding designer Karina, CEO Brandon, and product designer Dan.
Maintain and scale complex design systems across mobile, web, and desktop.
Be the first and last set of eyes on a feature buildout, taking high ownership.
Work with engineers, understand the tech stack, and manage design-developer handoff.
Defend designs while being mindful of implementation cost.
Solve creative friction and understand the end user.
Contribute to brand messaging, visual strategy, and conceptual aspects of design.