Kickstarter

Title: Senior Product Designer, Mobile (I) Location: Remote Job Description: Kickstarter is the leading crowdfunding platform for creative projects across film, games, music, art, design, and technology. Since our founding in 2009, our mission to help bring creative projects to life has been powered by the people behind the work. Together, we’ve helped creators around the world launch creative projects that have generated billions of dollars in pledges. That same commitment extends inward. Rooted in shared values, Kickstarter invests in the growth and success of our team, treating employees as whole people and empowering them with the autonomy and space to participate in decisions that shape their work and our company. Kickstarter is seeking an experienced Senior Product Designer, Mobile to lead the re-imagination and evolution of our mobile apps. You will own the full design lifecycle for our iOS and Android platforms, working with cross-functional partners to deliver seamless experiences for our global community. Ideal candidates bring a background in designing consumer-facing mobile products with international checkout experiences, with an eye toward engagement and retention, especially those including storytelling, user-generated content, search and discovery, video, and payments. The salary for this role in the United States is $158,393. In this role, you will: - Define interaction and visual design standards for our mobile products. - Design user-centric experiences that balance user needs and business goals, can scale, and translate globally. - Own and evolve our mobile design system. - Provide an international design perspective within our product org. - Actively partner with our research team to conduct and analyze user research. - Work with teams across Kickstarter as the company works toward building a mature ecosystem that serves our community of Creators and Backers. - Collaborate with partners on cross-functional teams to ensure alignment where appropriate. About You - You have solid professional experience leading design for mobile apps across iOS and Android platforms. - Your portfolio shows a proven track record of designing thoughtful, engaging, and highly usable mobile experiences. - You are knowledgeable of platform-specific design patterns and conventions across iOS and Android. - You have experience designing experiences for consumers in North America, Europe, and Asia. - You have experience designing with international privacy laws and regulations in mind. - Experience designing for commerce based companies with international checkout experiences - You are an excellent communicator. - You have the ability to consistently frame, explain and support your design decisions with peers and stakeholders, as well as deeply understand their feedback. - You have strengths in information architecture, interaction design, and visual design. - You are comfortable using both formal and informal methods to gather and give feedback. - You have experience with design programs like Figma, and are comfortable prototyping. - You empathize with our Creator and Backer communities and recognize how both contribute to Kickstarter’s ecosystem. - You recognize the challenges of the creative process and bringing projects to life. What You'll Enjoy - A fully remote workforce with plenty of opportunities to get to know your colleagues - 100% employer-paid health plan offerings - 16 paid vacation days, 10 sick days, and a company-wide winter break between Christmas and New Year’s - 25 volunteer hours each year to give back to your community - 16 weeks of parental leave plus fertility/family planning resources - Annual stipends including a Remote Working & Wellness Stipend of $3,000 USD (prorated) each calendar year for expenses related to remote working, wellness, health, and fitness and a $500 Role Development Stipend - Kickstarter currently operates with a 4-day workweek, a model that aligns with our belief in a healthy work-life balance and gives staff the space to be more than their work Incredibly talented and inspiring colleagues who know how to blend their creative endeavors into their work Our Fully Virtual Team We’re currently able to support employees based in the following US locations: CA, CO, CT, GA, IL, MA, MD, NC, NJ, NY, OR, SC, VA, VT, and WA. We're also able to support employees in the United Kingdom. If you live in—or are willing to move to—any of these locations, we look forward to your application! If there is a required or preferred location for an open role, it will be listed in the job description. Kickstarter is an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to fight for equality, we work to ensure a fair and consistent interview process. We celebrate diversity, and we are committed to an inclusive work environment. Reminder to applicants: Authentic communications from Kickstarter will always originate from official Kickstarter email domains (@kickstarter.com). Exercise caution and verify the legitimacy of anyone who claims to be representing Kickstarter on other platforms.

• Build and strengthen relationships with creators in Kickstarter’s community, connecting with promising creators, publishers, and authors who could use Kickstarter to bring impactful projects to life. • Track creator interactions using Kickstarter’s CRM, ensuring adherence to service-level agreements (SLAs) for curation and outreach support. • Own relationships with top-tier creators in the category of focus, assuring consistent communication to retain their business and collaborating with Kickstarter’s creator success team to support their launches. • Develop and refine category-specific educational resources in collaboration with internal teams to better support creators. • Identify opportunities to educate and empower creators by sharing best practices, industry insights, and platform resources. • Serve as the face of Kickstarter within the category of focus, working with Kickstarter’s Communications and Marketing teams to pursue press appearances as well as in-person and virtual one-to-many community development opportunities. • Establish and strengthen relationships with institutions and partners within the broader creative ecosystem to build Kickstarter’s referral pipeline. • Collaborate with industry stakeholders to expand Kickstarter's reach and visibility within key creative communities. • Contribute to Kickstarter’s strategy for industry events, attending as a representative to engage with creators and industry audiences through networking and public speaking opportunities. • Leverage events to connect with new and returning creators, positioning Kickstarter as the go-to platform for their funding needs. • Contribute to the strategy for category of focus, collaborating across the company to meet key targets for revenue, creator retention, and growth. • Advocate for Kickstarter in a competitive funding landscape, identifying and pitching new prospective creators while working to re-engage and win back those exploring alternate funding paths. • Gather market intelligence on industry trends and competing platforms to inform outreach strategies and positioning. • Support the development and rollout of new product features and services by recruiting beta participants and driving adoption among priority creators. • Serve as an internal champion for the needs of creators, surfacing feedback on product, policies, and user experience to internal stakeholders and collaborating across teams to enhance the creator experience. • Utilize Kickstarter’s category-specific curation channels to showcase creators' work and collaborate with marketing teams to feature priority creators across brand channels. • Develop strategies to highlight success stories and inspire new creators to engage with Kickstarter.

• Build and strengthen relationships with creators in Kickstarter’s community, connecting with promising businesses and individuals who could use Kickstarter to bring impactful projects to life. • Track creator interactions using Kickstarter’s CRM, ensuring adherence to service-level agreements (SLAs) for curation and outreach support. • Own relationships with top-tier creators in the category of focus, assuring consistent communication to retain their business and collaborating with Kickstarter’s creator success team to support their launches. • Develop and refine category-specific educational resources in collaboration with internal teams to better support creators. • Identify opportunities to educate and empower creators by sharing best practices, industry insights, and platform resources. • Serve as the face of Kickstarter within the category of focus, working with Kickstarter’s Communications and Marketing teams to pursue press appearances as well as in-person and virtual one-to-many community development opportunities. • Establish and strengthen relationships with institutions and partners within the broader creative ecosystem to build Kickstarter’s referral pipeline. • Collaborate with industry stakeholders to expand Kickstarter's reach and visibility within key creative communities. • Contribute to Kickstarter’s strategy for industry events, attending as a representative to engage with creators and industry audiences through networking and public speaking opportunities. • Leverage events to connect with new and returning creators, positioning Kickstarter as the go-to platform for their funding needs. • Contribute to the strategy for category of focus, collaborating across the company to meet key targets for revenue, creator retention, and growth. • Advocate for Kickstarter in a competitive funding landscape, identifying and pitching new prospective creators while working to re-engage and win back those exploring alternate funding paths. • Gather market intelligence on industry trends and competing platforms to inform outreach strategies and positioning. • Support the development and rollout of new product features and services by recruiting beta participants and driving adoption among priority creators. • Serve as an internal champion for the needs of creators, surfacing feedback on product, policies, and user experience to internal stakeholders and collaborating across teams to enhance the creator experience. • Utilize Kickstarter’s category-specific curation channels to showcase creators' work and collaborate with marketing teams to feature priority creators across brand channels. • Develop strategies to highlight success stories and inspire new creators to engage with Kickstarter.

• Drive growth initiatives across the backer journey optimising discovery conversion rates and user engagement across web and mobile platforms. • Partner with marketing, insights, and engineering teams to develop and test growth hypotheses, using A/B testing and other experimental frameworks to validate approaches. • Own significant and complex business objectives (OKRs) that drive key growth metrics such as backer acquisition, engagement and retention, identifying and recommending success metrics that enable meaningful ways to measure progress through a strategic 6-month roadmap. • Communicate user problems, business opportunities, team roadmaps, on-going updates, and project/OKR results clearly and effectively to a variety of audiences (e.g., executive stakeholders, product team, people with and without technical expertise). • Manage important business relationships with leadership team, key stakeholders, and sometimes key third-party partners to achieve long-term company goals. • Work closely and collaboratively with a team of engineers, designers, and other product managers as well as non-technical stakeholders to plan, develop, and release work across web and mobile platforms. • Ensure new features are built with feedback from Outreach, Community Support, and Marketing, and work closely with the GTM teams on all features to ensure products are launched with the right messaging and impact. • Manage complex roll-outs, including coordinating QA and cross-platform releases (web and mobile apps), and working closely with cross-functional partners such as Legal, Product Marketing, Trust and Safety, and Community Support.

• Build and strengthen relationships with creators in Kickstarter’s community, connecting with promising businesses and individuals who could use Kickstarter to bring impactful projects to life. • Track creator interactions using Kickstarter’s CRM, ensuring adherence to service-level agreements (SLAs) for curation and outreach support. • Own relationships with top-tier creators in the category of focus, assuring consistent communication to retain their business and collaborating with Kickstarter’s creator success team to support their launches. • Develop and refine category-specific educational resources in collaboration with internal teams to better support creators. • Identify opportunities to educate and empower creators by sharing best practices, industry insights, and platform resources. • Serve as the face of Kickstarter within the category of focus, working with Kickstarter’s Communications and Marketing teams to pursue press appearances as well as in-person and virtual one-to-many community development opportunities. • Establish and strengthen relationships with institutions and partners within the broader creative ecosystem to build Kickstarter’s referral pipeline. • Collaborate with industry stakeholders to expand Kickstarter's reach and visibility within key creative communities. • Negotiate the terms of deals. • Contribute to Kickstarter’s strategy for industry events, attending as a representative to engage with creators and industry audiences through networking and public speaking opportunities. • Leverage events to connect with new and returning creators, positioning Kickstarter as the go-to platform for their funding needs. • Own the strategy for category of focus, collaborating across the company to meet key targets for revenue, creator retention, and growth. • Advocate for Kickstarter in a competitive funding landscape, identifying and pitching new prospective creators while working to re-engage and win back those exploring alternate funding paths. • Gather market intelligence on industry trends and competing platforms to inform outreach strategies and positioning. • As appropriate, make the case for bringing on consultants with subject matter expertise related to key areas of growth. Take the lead on hiring, training, and managing their work. • Support the development and rollout of new product features and services by recruiting beta participants and driving adoption among priority creators. • Serve as an internal champion for the needs of creators, surfacing feedback on product, policies, and user experience to internal stakeholders and collaborating across teams to enhance the creator experience. • Work with cross-functional teams to make strategically informed recommendations about product policy improvements and contribute to their implementation. • Utilize Kickstarter’s category-specific curation channels to showcase creators' work and collaborate with marketing teams to feature priority creators across brand channels. • Develop strategies to highlight success stories and inspire new creators to engage with Kickstarter.

• Build and strengthen relationships with creators in Kickstarter’s community, connecting with promising businesses and individuals who could use Kickstarter to bring impactful projects to life. • Track creator interactions using Kickstarter’s CRM, ensuring adherence to service-level agreements (SLAs) for curation and outreach support. • Own relationships with top-tier creators in the category of focus, assuring consistent communication to retain their business and collaborating with Kickstarter’s creator success team to support their launches. • Develop and refine category-specific educational resources in collaboration with internal teams to better support creators. • Identify opportunities to educate and empower creators by sharing best practices, industry insights, and platform resources. • Serve as the face of Kickstarter within the category of focus, working with Kickstarter’s Communications and Marketing teams to pursue press appearances as well as in-person and virtual one-to-many community development opportunities. • Establish and strengthen relationships with institutions and partners within the broader creative ecosystem to build Kickstarter’s referral pipeline. • Collaborate with industry stakeholders to expand Kickstarter's reach and visibility within key creative communities. • Contribute to Kickstarter’s strategy for industry events, attending as a representative to engage with creators and industry audiences through networking and public speaking opportunities. • Leverage events to connect with new and returning creators, positioning Kickstarter as the go-to platform for their funding needs. • Own the strategy for category of focus, collaborating across the company to meet key targets for revenue, creator retention, and growth. • Advocate for Kickstarter in a competitive funding landscape, identifying and pitching new prospective creators while working to re-engage and win back those exploring alternate funding paths. • Gather market intelligence on industry trends and competing platforms to inform outreach strategies and positioning. • Support the development and rollout of new product features and services by recruiting beta participants and driving adoption among priority creators. • Serve as an internal champion for the needs of creators, surfacing feedback on product, policies, and user experience to internal stakeholders and collaborating across teams to enhance the creator experience. • Utilize Kickstarter’s category-specific curation channels to showcase creators' work and collaborate with marketing teams to feature priority creators across brand channels. • Develop strategies to highlight success stories and inspire new creators to engage with Kickstarter.

• Define interaction and visual design standards for mobile products • Design user-centric experiences that balance user needs and business goals, can scale, and translate globally • Own and evolve mobile design system • Provide an international design perspective within product org • Actively partner with research team to conduct and analyze user research • Work with teams across Kickstarter to build a mature ecosystem serving community of Creators and Backers • Collaborate with partners on cross-functional teams to ensure alignment where appropriate