Lead Product Design Role
Helpful Skills and Experience
What We Value
💰 Competitive salary: Our salary formula adjusts to your cost of living and experience. For this role, the range is: $145K–166K USD.
We’re looking for experienced Product Designers to help us iterate and improve upon the foundation we’ve built as well as help imagine what’s next.
In this role you’ll have broad impact as you work across product teams to help us refine and improve existing workflows and features with our scheduling, analytics, and engagement tools across desktop and mobile. Beyond these core offerings, you’ll also explore, prototype, and bring to life entirely new interfaces and experiences – both inside and outside of social media – to better help small businesses get off the ground and grow.
To be successful in this role you’ll need strong collaboration skills, a bias toward action, and a desire to deliver value to customers that strikes a balance between their needs and our business objectives. You’ll do this by working closing with Product and Engineering to research, shape, validate, ship, and iterate on new and existing features continuously.
Day to day you’ll collaborate directly with product managers, engineers, product marketers, data scientists, and other designers. You’ll also work closely with our Customer Advocacy (support) and Marketing teams.
What You’ll Do- Work closely with product and engineering leaders, product managers, engineers, and other designers to actively scope and shape potential product solutions.
- Use prototypes and other lean design thinking tools to inform your solutions.
- Solve for customer problems at scale, using a mix of research, customer interviews, qualitative and quantitative product data, and your own intuition.
- Design well-crafted experiences that balance form, function, and business goals.
- Help shape, contribute to, and improve our ever evolving design system.
- Support our Product, Engineering, and Advocacy (support) teams throughout the discovery, definition, and delivery product phases.
- Proactively seek and share feedback to help improve the overall quality of our products, our design thinking, and team culture.
- Be the voice of our customers and advocate for their needs and abilities.
- A well-rounded portfolio that demonstrates screen design fundamentals including user flows, interfaces, prototypes, systems thinking, use of data, and a clear understanding of interaction design.
- A solid grasp of visual design fundamentals including composition, hierarchy, typography, and color.
- Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong storytelling and presentation skills with the ability to influence and inspire different audiences and at different levels (including peers, and leaders).
- Effective stakeholder management skills and cross-functional collaboration and leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize feedback from multiple sources (customers, data, stakeholders, peers, etc) and successfully chart a path forward.
- Previous hands-on experience working on a web and/or mobile software product throughout the entire lifecycle (discover, design, ship, and iterate).
- Fun fact: we use Figma (and Figjam!) at ❤️ Buffer!
Clear communication, transparency, open-mindedness, empathy and patience are just a few of Buffer's cultural values. We are looking for a person who understands this culture and will thrive within a team of people passionate about self-improvement, honesty and openness. Here's a guide on how we strive to communicate with customers.
Working at Buffer is collaborative and positive thanks to our core values. We try to be “No Ego Doers” who are aware of our assumptions, and joining us means you'll work together with the team in order to test and confirm our ideas. In our career framework, we choose to focus on the journey, the growth and evolution that is a career.
Perks and BenefitsWorking at Buffer is collaborative and positive thanks to our core values. We try to be “No Ego Doers” who are aware of our assumptions, and joining us means you'll work together with the team in order to test and confirm our ideas. In our career framework, we choose to focus on the journey, the growth and evolution that is a career.
We hope that you're excited by the possibilities that come with working at Buffer! In addition to our unique culture, we also offer these fun perks and benefits.
💰 Competitive salary: Our salary formula adjusts to your cost of living and experience. For this role, the range is: $145K–166K USD.
🏝 Work remotely: Live and work wherever you like!
💪 Health insurance: We offer health insurance for all of our team members, international or US.
💪 Health insurance: We offer health insurance for all of our team members, international or US.
💻 Home office setup: Get a laptop + $500 to set up your home office!
👓 'Growth mindset' fund: Extra money for learning and development.
⛺️ Minimum vacation: At least 3 weeks/year!
🤑 401(k): With 3% company match.
📈 Profit sharing: When the company does well, all team members share the profits!
🍼 Family leave: 3 months of family leave for all parents, and more is possible.
✈️ Retreats: Join us for company get-togethers twice per year! Our next retreat is in Greece. (These are on pause for now.)
☕️ Working smarter stipend: Get some extra cash for a co-working space or a coffee shop work.
📚 Free books and Kindle: Get a free Kindle and all the free books - digital, physical, and audio - you like, anytime.
⛱ Sabbaticals: Take a 6-week break, fully paid, after every 5 years with Buffer.
Where You'll Work✈️ Retreats: Join us for company get-togethers twice per year! Our next retreat is in Greece. (These are on pause for now.)
☕️ Working smarter stipend: Get some extra cash for a co-working space or a coffee shop work.
📚 Free books and Kindle: Get a free Kindle and all the free books - digital, physical, and audio - you like, anytime.
⛱ Sabbaticals: Take a 6-week break, fully paid, after every 5 years with Buffer.
Buffer is a fully distributed team, which means that we’re spread across the planet. We have Bufferoos in 15 countries, 11 timezones and 42 cities around the world to build a great culture and product.
For this position, we'd strongly prefer a candidate in North or South America timezones.
Here's Our (general) Hiring ProcessStage 1: Apply to join the team through the form below. If you don't hear from us for the first week or two after submitting your application, don't be alarmed. :)
Stage 2: Values Interview
Stage 3: Hiring Manager Interview
Stage 4: Role or Team Interview
Stage 5: VP Interview