Principal Product Designer

February 11

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $200k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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Medium is an innovative online education platform that connects expert educators and tutors with learners aged 3 to 18. It offers a variety of live video chat classes in subjects such as math, languages, coding, and arts, allowing for both group and individualized learning. Medium focuses on personalized tutoring and a full curriculum that nurtures neurodiversity, ensuring that every learner can find engaging and enriching educational experiences.

Online Publishing • Media • Content • News

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

📚 Education

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• Medium has a long history of strong design leadership. • As we enter a new phase of innovation we will be shaping the future of social publishing for our millions of readers and writers. • At Medium, our mission is to deepen understanding across across the world by building community around shared stories and we invite you to join us. • We are looking for a Principal Designer who is passionate about this mission and can bring exceptional craft and fresh insights to the world of reading, writing, and publishing. • You’ll help drive and execute an ambitious product design strategy, contributing at both the structural and granular levels that shape our product experiences. • If you are hungry for that type of hands-on impact and you are eager to lead, learn, and grow, we’d love to hear from you.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years designing consumer-facing software • Experience working on social or reading and writing platforms, or in similar industries • Track record of driving complex systems design at scale • Experience shipping, scaling and maintaining design systems • Ability to navigate urgency and ambiguity with a multi-faceted team in a fast-paced environment • Demonstrated industry influence; we’d like to see examples of how you think outside the box and build enthusiasm for your ideas • A genuine interest in Medium’s mission and knowledge of our platform • Excellent design sensibilities and instincts that translate well to your UX/UI execution • Informed product design opinions and industry knowledge that reflect current trends • Strong desire for product impact through your designs • Prototyping in Figma or code • Bias toward action; you are outcome-oriented and take responsibility for your impact • You demonstrate good judgment and can balance autonomy with collaboration • Comfort navigating data, from UX metrics to qualitative and quantitative inputs • Strong communication and presentation skills; you can easily relay the “why” behind your work as well as the “what” and “how” • You enjoy and excel at remote work, helping to foster an inclusive team culture

🏖️ Benefits

• Working with a fully distributed team: We’re fully remote and have teammates across the U.S. & France • Healthcare benefits covered at 100% for employees and 70% for dependents • Generous parental leave policy & tutoring services through Outschool • Mental health support through Talkspace • Financial wellness support through Northstar • Stipends for wellness, co-working, professional development, wifi and a one-time home office bonus • Unlimited PTO and standard company holidays • A Medium subscription