Product Designer (Contract)

Posted 7 Days Ago
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Remote
Mid level
Information Technology • Mobile • News + Entertainment • Social Media
The Role
The Contract Product Designer will collaborate with the UX Lead and cross-functional teams to design and improve safety UX for Reddit's platform and tools. Responsibilities include translating complex concepts into user-friendly designs, participating in the full design lifecycle, and potentially contributing to design system development.
Summary Generated by Built In

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Team Description

The Safety Org is one of Reddit's largest divisions. Safety UX collaborates with product development, scaled abuse detection/mitigation, threat intelligence, and safety operations to create tools and facilitate workflows for internal admins and agents, as well as users on our platform. We tackle complex issues to foster safe communities.

Role Description

As a Contract Product Designer on the Safety UX team, you will work closely with the UX Lead to execute design deliverables for in-flight tracks of work on both our internal tooling and safety touchpoints on the Reddit platform. We are looking for a highly motivated, communicative, and collaborative designer who can hit the ground running and work with both urgency and quality.

Responsibilities

  • Support the design of Safety UX
  • Translate complex ideas into elegant, scalable, and intuitive design solutions across both our web and mobile app platforms
  • Execute at every stage of the design lifecycle from ideation to delivery, balancing innovation with usability
  • Collaborate with other designers, product managers, engineers, and UX researchers with effective exploration, communication, and presentation to realize deliverables
  • Bonus: If you’ve got design system experience, apply that to the development of new patterns

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of work experience in UX/UI design, with an excellent portfolio showcasing UX and UI design work in complex systems 
  • Strong product sensibilities. Experience in safety or related functions is a plus, but not required.
  • Comfort with complexity and finding clarity in ambiguous situations 
  • Strong communication skills. Ideally, an inspired story-teller with strong written and presentation skills who is adept at bringing others along in their process for maximum buy-in and impact.
  • Humble, curious, and motivated to ship the best product

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

Top Skills

Ux/Ui Design
The Company
San Francisco, CA
1,900 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Reddit is a community of millions of users engaging in the creation of content and the sharing of conversation across tens of thousands of topics. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world.

Why Work With Us

At Reddit, you’ll help build something that encourages millions around the world to think more, do more, learn more, feel more– and maybe even laugh more.

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