Senior Product Designer

VSCO•San Francisco, CA

41d•Hybrid

About The Position

VSCO is looking for a Senior Product Designer who works 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 position sits at the intersection of systems and product, requiring an AI-first approach to design, build, and collaboration. This is a role within a small, fast-moving team that emphasizes shipping, iterating, and continuous learning. The ideal candidate asks questions before committing, embraces challenges, and moves quickly without compromising on quality.

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.
Mobile-first design experience is a must.
AI-native workflow: proficient in using AI tools for design and prototyping, understanding their role in system quality.
Experience owning or contributing to a design system at scale, including tokenization, component architecture, and maintenance.
Exceptionally high craft bar: polished, precise, and intentional design skills.
Strong command of transition animations and prototyping, creating prototypes engineers can build from.
Experience with cross-product or platform-level design, maintaining context across surfaces for coherence.
Experience running experiments and using A/B testing results to inform decisions.
Bias toward speed and execution; ability to move fast and make decisions with incomplete information.
Deep systems thinking; ability to see the whole before the parts and design patterns that don't create downstream problems.
Proactive approach: leans in and asks questions to gain clarity before committing.
A portfolio showcasing high craft and evidence of 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 to continuously audit and improve the design system.
Define transition animations and interaction patterns.
Create 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 initiatives across the funnel: onboarding, activation, and retention.
Run experiments and iterate based on results.
Design and prototype AI-powered tools, using them to audit and scale the design system rapidly.
Model AI-powered design workflows for the team.
Partner with engineering to ensure tight alignment between design intent and implementation.
Design for mobile (iOS/Android) and responsive web, with a mobile-first approach.
Apply an AI-native workflow, using AI tools as a core part of the design and prototyping process.
Contribute to a design system at scale, focusing on tokenization, component architecture, and long-term health.
Apply a high craft bar to design, ensuring polished, precise, and intentional work.
Design motion with purpose and produce prototypes that engineers can build from.
Design for coherence at scale across multiple surfaces and products.
Run experiments in an A/B testing environment and use results to inform decisions.
Exhibit a bias toward speed and execution, making decisions with incomplete information and shipping without a perfect brief.
Apply deep systems thinking to design patterns that avoid downstream problems.
Collaborate effectively by aligning teams through a clear point of view.