Substack

Product Designer

San Francisco (HQ) · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$215kDetected 64 days ago

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About the role

Substack's model, based on direct subscriptions, has fueled an explosion of independent publishing.
It empowers creators with economic autonomy, creative ownership, and a direct connection to their most engaged audiences.
Substack does not have silver bullets for the problems of human nature, and we will not avoid the costs of creating scaled platforms.

Rapidly build context about disparate product areas, community dynamics, and industry norms in any domains, from print media to podcasting to online social systems
Design beautiful, usable, scalable interfaces and flows for a wide range of product zones (from profiles to CRM / analytics, publication aesthetics to moderation systems, email layouts to interactive content actions, and so much more)
Find ways to help creators and audiences build long-lasting, rewarding, and healthy relationships
Help diversify the kinds of creators Substack supports, through novel media type support, alternative reader experiences, supporting outreach programs, and more
Shape the culture and processes of Design at Substack
our focus will above all be on whether you've demonstrated the capacity to craft design solutions in relevant or related product areas
Find ways to help creators and audiences build long-lasting, rewarding, and healthy relationships; empower audience members to become contributors and creators
As fundamental, though, is the level of trust and interest involved in paid subscriptions. "What works" for Substack is what leads people to make long-term and real investments in independent creatives and collectives, and we hope this will lead to improved outcomes in aggregate across many types of features.

3 years of experience designing software
we're especially keen to see experience with social networks
High degree of competence with Figma.
everything from cycle plans to organizational structure to top-line strategy can change -and will- so a certain degree of adventurousness or heartiness is required, as it can all get rather messy!
Sometimes, we must be team players
Specifically, we highly value strong front-end skills, experience making and deploying sites, and experience with TypeScript and React.
Multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, determine final offer amounts and may vary from the amounts listed above.
If you want to see what media, communities, and content can become when unmoored from advertising models, and you have the skills and experience to contribute, we'd love to meet you.

SF Bay Area- or NYC-based.
Living near our offices (in either city) means being able to work directly with colleagues, so it's very slightly preferred.

Substack's compensation package includes a market-competitive salary, equity for all full-time roles, and exceptional benefits.

All product design applications must link to or include a portfolio. This portfolio needn't be overly polished, although excellently presented work might stand out
Design at Substack is somewhat wild, and we're looking for rigorous, robust, high-output designers who are comfortable with the vagaries and dynamism of startup life.
We are not a "best practices" shop; we have very little fixed process; we work closely with executives and other functions and we're not territorial or precious.

This listing is sourced directly from Substack's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.