Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together.
About the Design Team
We're a tight-knit team of product designers, researchers, and content designers working closely with engineers and product managers to research, explore, and iterate on well-crafted user experiences that are innovative, engaging, and delightful. We collaborate regularly through design critiques, work sessions, and presentations to inspire and influence the direction of the product and company as a whole.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Product Designer to join our Customer Growth team, with a focus on web-based experiences. Along with your team, this role will be responsible for initiatives including high-impact website redesigns, experimentation, and top-of-funnel optimization.
You’ll collaborate closely with partners in Product, Engineering, Marketing, SEO, Brand, and Analytics to drive business growth and elevate our web presence. You'll bring modern design sensibilities, a sharp visual eye, and a user-first mindset to projects that shape how customers discover, trust, and choose Thumbtack.
What you'll do
- Craft: Deliver high-quality, responsive designs that reflect contemporary interaction and visual design best practices — across desktop and mobile web.
- Execution: Own the design for key in-flight projects within the Customer Growth team, focusing on upleveling high-traffic web experiences and optimization efforts.
- Experimentation: Identify and execute on opportunities for A/B testing and conversion improvements in collaboration with data science and engineering.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional partners in Product, Engineering, Marketing, SEO, and Brand to translate strategy into polished user experiences.
- Communication: Use storytelling and visuals to communicate design rationale and bring stakeholders along in your process.
- Prototyping: Leverage prototyping tools to communicate ideas, validate hypotheses, and refine interaction flows.
In order to be successful, you must bring
- 4+ years of product design experience, with a strong portfolio of consumer-facing web work.
- Strong interaction design fundamentals paired with high-touch visual design — you can craft elegant, engaging interfaces with modern polish.
- Expertise in responsive web design, with a strong understanding of mobile web interaction patterns.
- Experience working with or adjacent to brand and marketing teams.
- Familiarity with lifecycle marketing, SEO, and performance-driven design strategies.
- Demonstrated success driving growth through experimentation, A/B testing, and optimization.
- Experience leading or contributing to large-scale website redesigns.
- Strong communicator with the ability to tell stories and align diverse stakeholders around your ideas.
- Experience using prototyping tools in your design workflow.
Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as calibrated job level, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.
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Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. We also will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law.
Thumbtack is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact: [email protected].
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