Prose is Hiring a Senior Product Designer (Brooklyn, NY/Hybrid)

Salary range for this role is $145,000 to $155,000 annually (+10% discretionary bonus and equity). Actual compensation will be commensurate with experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skills.

We are seeking a skilled and nimble Senior Product Designer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for identifying and solving user problems, an eye for refined design, and a strong interest in building and maintaining design systems. You should possess expertise in product strategy development, be a flexible self-starter, have the ability to embrace a fast pace, and thrive within ambiguity.

In this role, you will lead the development, execution, and delivery of a range of digital products and experiences. You will leverage your skills in conceptual thinking, product strategy, and data insights to solve complex business challenges. Working alongside growth, product, and engineering teams, you will uphold brand consistency, ensure user satisfaction, and create a smooth, cohesive end-to-end customer journey. Your designs will not only meet user needs but also reflect and enhance our unique brand identity, crafting visually compelling and emotionally engaging experiences that resonate with our audience.

This role will be a hybrid position based out of our Williamsburg office and the expectation is that this person will be in the office 3 days per week.

About the company

Prose is truly custom hair and skin care made-to-order—just for you. Our line of custom products are made by an in-house, Paris-based R&D team of gifted chemists who combine natural ingredients in innovative ways alongside dermatologists, giving consumers clean skin care, hair care and impeccable results.

At the heart of Prose’s success is Singular, its proprietary AI-powered beauty-tech platform, which has revolutionized personalized beauty at scale. Marrying a technology-driven approach with an apothecary-style concept, all Prose hair and skin care products are personalized to your one-of-a-kind hair, skin, goals and environment.

We’re a company that wants to change beauty practices, so we’re changing the way beauty companies practice. As a certified B Corporation, a Public Benefit Corporation and Climate Neutral, we’re proving that good business is always sustainable. With Prose, there’s nothing sacrificed to bring you great products—not trees, materials, wages, or performance.

REQUIREMENTS

6+ years professional design experience, with a strong preference for experience in an e-commerce or digital product environment
Experience working independently to explore solutions from concepts to execution
Strong cross-collaboration skills and capabilities
Proven ability to lead by influence with finely honed attention to detail
Demonstrated ability to design simple and elegant solutions to complex user problems
An eye for high-quality, well-crafted visual and interaction design, and a passion for UI details and UX best practices
Ability to take and give feedback in a timely and professional manner
Basic knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a plus, but not required

RESPONSIBILITIES

Own the design direction for key product areas, ensuring alignment with business goals and tracking measurable improvements in user engagement and business metrics.
Champion a fast, iterative design process, rapidly prototyping and testing ideas to quickly bring value to customers while continuously refining the product based on data and feedback
Maintain and evolve our design system and design library to ensure consistency across the product and brand while driving design innovation
Collaborate with the user research and data teams to identify user issues, conduct usability testing, and ensure that design solutions are rooted in real user needs
Work both autonomously and collaboratively to conceptualize and test new digital product initiatives
Demonstrate organization, flexibility, efficient time management, and the ability to prioritize workload

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