Senior Product Designer - job 2 of 3

Marco Polo is a video chat app created for one simple and significant purpose—to help people feel close.

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our growing team. A great candidate for this role has a strong background in UI/UX, including mobile experience. You have a great capacity for listening and being flexible, are able to work fast and iterate, and take feedback quickly and productively. You have excellent command over the media of design (e.g. Sketch) and care more about outcomes than pixels. You'll ideally have experience designing for consumers. You care deeply about technology's ability to make people feel close and want to shape that experience for consumers.

In this position, you will:

• Design magical mobile experiences: Take broad, conceptual ideas to turn into meaningful experiences. You'll identify needs of Marco Polo customers and turn them into awesome new product features or improvements
• Partner cross-functionally: Work collaboratively with other designers and engineers to oversee the user experience of new features from concept to launch
• Participate in feedback: Regularly give and receive feedback on design iterations across Marco Polo products. You'll also perform user research to help guide product design.
• Contribute to product strategy: You'll be asking and answering questions like "what should we build?" and "what problems need to be solved?" and "how will this move our business forward?"

Ideally, you have:

• 4+ years design experience at a product company,
• Experience designing for multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Desktop, etc.) with current tools (Sketch, Principal, Framer, etc.).
• An excellent sense of typography, layout, color, and general design principles.
• An ability to adapt your designs across different platforms and form factors.
• An ability to communicate your design decisions, and work cross-functionally with different teams and roles (including developers, project managers, marketing and other designers).
• Willingness to change and adapt designs based on engineering constraints.
• Humility and focus on building a great product that people love.
• A compelling portfolio showcasing your work and attention to detail, which ideally includes shipped mobile product designs.

You’ll love working here because:

• We’re a purpose-driven company making a difference in the lives of millions of people.
• We have been doing the remote work thing long before it became necessary. We’re good at it and we’ll make sure you are too!
• We move quickly so you’re constantly learning and things never get stale.
• We know good ideas come from everywhere, so we work to ensure every person feels safe to take risks and think outside of the box.
• We offer competitive compensation, including equity, and we’ve got you covered when it comes to your health (medical, vision, dental), finances, and your family (paid family leave).

Does this sound interesting to you? If so, then we'd love to hear from you. We care deeply about diversity and inclusion at Marco Polo. If you’re on the fence about whether you’re a fit, go ahead and apply! Each application is reviewed by a real, live human who understands that each candidate’s unique lived experience is more valuable than buzzwords on a resume.

A bit about us:

Marco Polo is private video chat for your real relationships - not the entire world. Our video chat app allows you to send a video message at your convenience, and your friend or family member can send back whenever they can. With millions of people already benefiting from this new way of using technology to nurture their relationships, we’re proving that we can reject harmful but profitable business practices and build products that are good for you.

In June 2020, we launched Marco Polo Plus, a subscription plan that offers a premium experience. We aim to be a sustainable business while remaining free in a way that upholds our brand promise to be good for you. Plus delivers on our promise to monetize without ads or selling user data. 

Though our backgrounds are diverse, we share a belief—lives flourish when people feel close. That common inspiration keeps us aligned with our purpose as a team, which is scattered across 16 states (so far), coast-to-coast throughout North America.

The distance doesn't slow us down. We keep the engine humming from our homes, co-working spaces, and coffee shops—connecting with daily Zoom calls, and retreats. Whether collaborating through Slack, video calls, or of course Marco Polo, our team knows how to keep connected—it’s what we do best!

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We can add teammates from anywhere in North America.