Lead Product Designer
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Lead Product Designer shaping Bluesky’s open social media app across iOS, Android, and web. Leading designers while redefining product identity and design systems.
Responsibilities:
- Own significant design projects end-to-end, from ideation and exploration through execution, launch, and post-release iteration
- Make product judgment decisions about scope, sequencing, quality, and when not to ship
- Design cohesive, intuitive interaction flows and interfaces across iOS, Android, and web
- Drive and evolve Bluesky’s visual language, design system, and holistic product identity
- Review real usage, synthesize user feedback, and improve the product
- Refine copy, states, hierarchy, accessibility, and interaction polish
- Manage a team of 2–4 product designers through 1:1s, performance reviews, goal-setting, and career development
- Mentor and grow designers at all levels
- Lead design critiques and reviews and raise the team’s quality bar
- Hire and onboard design talent
- Define design collaboration, prioritization, and quality practices at Bluesky
- Partner with product and engineering leadership to define problems, shape roadmaps, and make strategic tradeoffs
- Represent design in cross-functional conversations
- Champion users by translating research and qualitative signals into product direction
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience designing digital products, with a strong portfolio of shipped work
- 3–5 years leading product design for social, platforms, and/or consumer digital products
- Experience directly managing designers, including performance reviews, hiring, and career development
- Strong hands-on product design, prototyping, and attention to detail
- Strong visual design skills, including aesthetic judgment around layout, typography, and hierarchy
- Ability to represent design confidently to leadership and cross-functional partners
- Deep experience building and evolving scalable design systems
- Experience influencing product direction, shaping roadmaps, and defining what to build and why
- Strong user empathy and ability to translate qualitative signals into actionable product insights
- Highly proficient with Figma, including advanced component and system work, and comfortable building interactive prototypes
- Ability to take feedback and iterate quickly
- Portfolio or examples of past work required in the cover letter or resume
Benefits:
- Equity considered in the total compensation package
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