Senior Product Designer

VSCO•San Francisco, CA

16h•$190,000 - $205,000•Hybrid

About The Position

VSCO is seeking a Senior Product Designer who will function as both a product and systems designer. This role involves developing and extending design systems across platforms, building cross-product workflows, and designing AI tooling and interfaces as core product work. The ideal candidate will bring an AI-first approach to design, build, and collaboration, helping to define this for the team. This is a position within a small, fast-moving team that emphasizes shipping, iterating, and continuous learning. The right person will be proactive in asking questions, embrace challenges, and maintain a high standard of craft while moving quickly.

Requirements

5+ years of experience designing and shipping digital products end-to-end, from concept to delivery.
Experience designing for mobile (iOS/Android) and responsive web, with a mobile-first approach.
AI-native workflow: proficient in using AI tools as a core part of the design and prototyping process, understanding the importance of system quality for AI functionality.
Experience owning or contributing to a design system at scale, including tokenization, component architecture, and ongoing maintenance.
Exceptionally high craft bar: producing polished, precise, and intentional work that elevates the standards of those around you.
Strong command of transition animations and prototyping, designing motion with purpose and creating engineer-ready prototypes.
Experience with cross-product or platform-level design, maintaining context across surfaces and designing for coherence at scale.
Experience running experiments, comfortable in an A/B testing environment, and using results to inform decisions without compromising craft.
Bias toward speed and execution: ability to move fast, make decisions with incomplete information, and ship without a perfect brief.
Deep systems thinking: ability to see the whole system before focusing on individual parts and design patterns that avoid downstream issues.
Proactive approach: willingness to push for clarity before committing.
A portfolio showcasing high craft and demonstrating thought process, not just final shipped products.
Strong collaboration skills: ability to align teams through a clear point of view.

Nice To Haves

Experience with growth design, including activation flows, upgrade moments, conversion surfaces, or product-led growth patterns.
Experience designing for creative tools, photography products, or creative communities.
Familiarity with design token architecture and cross-platform theming.
Affinity for VSCO’s mission and the photographers it serves.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain the design system (VUI), ensuring it is clean, well-tokenized, and structured for designer confidence. Utilize AI tooling for continuous auditing and improvement.
Define transition animations and interaction patterns, creating prototypes with a fidelity that engineers can build from directly.
Design cross-product platform experiences, including search, growth entry points, and end-to-end user journeys.
Contribute to product-led growth across the user funnel (onboarding, activation, retention) by running experiments and iterating based on results.
Design and prototype AI-powered tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude), using them to audit and scale the design system rapidly, and modeling this workflow for the team.
Partner closely with engineering to ensure tight alignment between design intent and implementation.
Conduct pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process.