This is a hybrid role based in our Los Angeles (West Hollywood) or San Francisco office and will require you to be in office Tuesdays and Thursdays.
What's so interesting about this role?
We are looking for a well-rounded Staff Product Designer who has a passion for conceiving and executing simple and impactful interfaces for the queer community. Grindr is a huge, uniquely important app, and you'll be part of a small team that shapes the direction and future of a product used by millions of people a month. This is an opportunity to directly affect the lives of millions of people through your aesthetic, interaction, and product choices.
What's the Job?

• Design valuable, cohesive, and delightful user experiences for Grindr.
• Being an active mentor for senior designers, and helping lead critique, design reviews, and quarterly planning.
• Oversee multiple initiatives from insight to strategy, to launch across all platforms and devices.
• Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists, and Researchers to define problems & goals, map user flows, prototype interactions, and launch new products and services.
• Build strong relationships with leaders inside and outside of core product teams; strong communication and executive stakeholder management skills
• Have a keen understanding of technological, business and user opportunities and constraints.
• Scope project work (in partnership with PMs and engineers) and help define the design process and timeline.
• Always be an advocate for our users.
• Stay up-to-date with mobile app design trends, best practices, patterns, new capabilities, etc., and use this knowledge to push the product forward.
• Locations: We are hiring someone for this role to be based ideally in Los Angeles or San Francisco

What We'll Love About You

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in product design, UI design, and/or UX design in a fast-paced environment.
• An outstanding portfolio, showcasing excellent visual and interaction skills and craft -mastery in your field.
• Highly collaborative. Able to build trust & strong relationships at all levels, influence without formal authority, and push back when appropriate.
• Demonstrated ability to help a team navigate ambiguity, set vision, and set strategy for global products.
• Confident in your own skill but respectful of the contributions of others.
• Experimental by nature, excited and knowledgeable about A/B testing and user research.
• Strong storytelling, presentation, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Deep experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working with cross-functional teams including development, product management, and product research.
• Knowledgeable of industry and platform-specific patterns.
• Can effortlessly motivate and drive small to medium teams to transform a product.
• Experience designing for both Android, iOS and Responsive web.
• Experience with Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Proto.io (or other prototyping tools) is a must.
• Experience working on a live app.

We'll Really Swoon if You have

• Front-end web development skills
• Experience designing for social media or dating apps
• Experience with animation and/or motion design
• Experience conducting exploratory user research and usability testing
• Experience with quantitative data gathering and surveys
• Experience in the Anti-Abuse or Trust & Safety domains

What you'll love about us

• Mission and Impact: Grindr is building the global gayborhood in your pocket. Your role will impact the lives of millions of LGBTQ+ people around the world. Through our success, we are making a world where the lives of our community are free, equal, and just.
• Family Insurance: Insurance premium coverage for health, dental, and vision for you and partial coverage for your dependents.
• Retirement Savings: Generous 401K plan with 6% match and immediate vest in the U.S.
• Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation and eligibility for company bonus and equity programs.
• Queer-Inclusive Benefits: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
• Additional Benefits: Flexible vacation policy, monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch provided onsite, and yearly travel & leisure stipend.

About Grindr
Grindr is building the global gayborhood in your pocket. With more than 13.5 million monthly active users, Grindr has become a fundamental part of the LGBTQ+ community and is charting a path to make the world more free, equal, and just. Since 2015, Grindr for Equality has advanced safety, health, and human rights for millions of Grindr users and the global LGBTQ+ community in partnership with more than 100 community organizations in every region of the world.
Our next evolution is underway as a public company that continues to grow and build meaningful experiences for our users. From social issues to product innovations, we're setting audacious goals for our community and the business, and leveraging the latest tech stacks and a culture of engineering excellence to make it happen. At the heart of our work in this new chapter is a shared set of operating principles centered around cultivating curiosity, thinking big, setting and expediting our ambitious goals, and growing through iteration; all while keeping our users #1.
Grindr is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, with offices in the Bay Area, Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. With a track record of strong financial performance and plans for continued headcount growth, we're building a team of talented, passionate, and open-minded people who want to disrupt the dating app space, innovate products, and advance LGBTQ+ culture. Come be a part of this exciting journey with us.
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Grindr is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. This base pay range is for the U.S. and is not applicable to locations outside of the U.S. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, location, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role will also be eligible for equity, benefits, and a company bonus program.
Base Pay Range
$147,000 - $283,000 USD