Staff Designer, Product Creative

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Requirements:

• 7+ years professional work experience between both product and visual design
• 2+ years of recent experience working as a UI /Visual or Product Designer at a consumer tech company
• A strong portfolio showcasing pixel-perfect UI design and motion, product design, systematic thinking and brand-related work including illustration, 3D, animation.
• Experience shepherding a principles-driven design process through multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Excellent writing, presentation, and storytelling skills that explain and advocate for design decisions clearly across teams.
• Experience creating and delivering specs to engineers and an understanding of the practical application of a design or document when it comes to collaborating with technical teams
• Keen understanding of post-production workflows.
• Expertise in design software, including Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and optionally 3D tools such as Blender, Cinema 4D, or similar.
• A passion for design systems, Reddit’s mission and pushing the boundaries of brand and product integration.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate on the design system, frameworks and patterns that define the Reddit brand on our platform while balancing designer needs with system complexity.
• Improve UX globally by ensuring brand consistency across the consumer platform.
• Envision the future visual evolution of Reddit and help plan the roadmap to get there.
• Develop distinct visual sub-brands for special or seasonal experiences that still feel related to the core Reddit brand.
• Drive consensus across diverse teams through effective exploration, communication, and presentation to design peers and senior leadership.
• Lead design efforts from early concepting through final execution, focusing on both strategy and detailed craft.
• Give constructive feedback in design reviews to push the quality and vision of the work.