Lead Product Designer, Marketplace

Role overview

Accountabilities

• Own marketplace discovery from opportunity identification and problem framing through design direction, prototyping, and shipping.
• Shape strategy for a two-sided marketplace balancing creator visibility, growth, and trust with consumer relevance and confidence.
• Design conversational, curated, personalized, recommended, and trust-focused discovery experiences.
• Connect community, creator, content, engagement, and marketplace dynamics to user discovery and decisions.
• Prototype rapidly with AI-assisted development and prototyping tools.
• Collaborate with product and engineering on direction, trade-offs, feasibility, scalability, and business and user goals.
• Drive interaction, visual, and systems-thinking quality across the marketplace experience.
• Mentor designers and raise design thinking and execution quality through influence.
• Build conviction in ambiguous situations through experimentation, iteration, feedback, and evidence.
• Communicate decisions and trade-offs proactively across distributed teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product design experience and a strong portfolio of shipped products and complex multi-user experiences.
• Proven marketplace or two-sided platform experience is required.
• Experience owning a product area at a senior or lead level with strategic autonomy.
• Strong 0-to-1 product development experience from exploration through launch and iteration.
• Understanding of marketplace discovery, search, ranking, recommendations, engagement, trust, visibility, and conversion.
• Fluency with AI-assisted prototyping and development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, v0, or Lovable.
• Advanced Figma proficiency for high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and systems.
• Strong product and systems thinking, communication, ambiguity tolerance, proactivity, and autonomy.
• Professional fluency in English equivalent to approximately CEFR C2 or ILR 5.
• Alignment with collaborative, inclusive, high-ownership working principles.

Compensation and benefits

• Annual compensation is USD $140,000-$170,000, with level consideration at Lead or Senior depending on experience and alignment.
• Equity participation includes ongoing refresh grants.
• The role provides 35 days of paid time off each year.
• Benefits support health, wellbeing, and professional development.

Work environment

• The position is fully remote across locations and time zones.
• The organization operates as a globally distributed team and holds twice-yearly company retreats.
• The culture emphasizes autonomy, ownership, trust, meaningful outcomes, and collaboration across 30+ countries.