Senior Product Designer

The job overview for this role is that Ladder is seeking a Senior Product Designer to join their Design Team. The role involves working on all stages of product development, from shaping new features to prototyping iterations and finalizing design details. The ideal candidate should have a strong portfolio showcasing their expertise in typography, interaction, product, and visual design. They should also have experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and a commitment to user-centered design. This is an opportunity to make a difference by creating simple and elegant user experiences in a fast-paced and iterative environment.

• Understand Ladder's vision, strategic priorities, and competitive position while comprehensively learning our users' needs
• Utilize a full range of interaction design, product design, and visual design to craft flows, prototypes, sketches, and high-fidelity visuals for Ladder product features
• Design new products, enhancements, and marketing materials delivering simple, elegant user experience in a fast-moving and iterative environment
• Work with design, product management, engineering, data science, and compliance to generate ideas and turn them into a thoughtful and humanized product experience
• Conduct user research, analyze metrics, and integrate learnings
• Distill complicated problems into simple, well-rounded solutions based on human-centered design and research data
• Work closely with team designers to define features and the overall direction of product areas; improve team's work by asking for and offering feedback from product designers and cross-functional teammates
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
• Work with product managers to strategize product features
• Craft usable, accessible, and modular designs that scale
• Communicate, present, and listen effectively
• Maintain a growth mindset, curiosity, and eagerness to explore diverse ideas while seeking new opportunities and challenges
• Participate in the success of building Ladder through stock options
• Take advantage of excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Enjoy flexible paid time off, including a week-long winter holiday closure
• Benefit from a rewarding 401k match program
• Receive a monthly reimbursement for wellness-related expenses
• Utilize commuter benefits (if applicable)

• 5+ years of experience in product design at a leading consumer technology company
• Outstanding portfolio showcasing design process from concept through execution, with a foundation in typography, interaction, product, and visual design
• Demonstrated experience in prototyping to explore and convey design solutions
• Track record as an individual contributor on a product design team with a commitment to user-centered design
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
• History of successful collaboration with product managers to strategize product features
• Solid understanding of crafting usable, accessible, and modular designs that scale
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and listening skills
• Growth mindset, curiosity, and eagerness to explore diverse ideas and seek new opportunities and challenges
• Sense of humor

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible paid time off, including a week-long winter holiday closure
• Stock options with an extended option exercise window
• A rewarding 401k match program
• Ladder Fit Program with a monthly reimbursement for wellness-related expenses
• Commuter benefits for pre-tax benefits and free parking
• A stocked, beautiful new office with office snacks and daily catered lunches
• Paid parental leave of ten weeks for all parents
• Work-from-home flexibility and support with a remote office stipend and monthly WFH stipend
• Fun company-wide events, both virtual and in-person