Description
Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe.
As a Lead Product Designer, you'll join a tight-knit, collaborative team of designers who care deeply about creating beautiful and intuitive experiences. Our team is at the center of product work at Faire, designing experiences for the thousands of small retailers and maker brands growing their businesses in our marketplace.
In this role, you'll help shape Faire's product, working with team members across research, engineering, product, and customer service. You'll embed in a product team and focus on designing features and experiences for a strategic pillar of our product. As a design lead, you'll strive to understand our customers' challenges and craft flows that help people move through our products with confidence.
Responsibilities:
- Define the direction by influencing what to build based on customer understanding and business context
- Lead end-to-end design from deep discovery and rapid prototyping through polished execution and production
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and data teams to explore new paradigms
- Tell powerful stories that connect design vision to tangible business and customer impact, inspiring alignment across teams and leadership
- Push Faire's design system forward through the lens of your work,evolving patterns, motion, and visual language that scale across the platform
- Prototype fearlessly using modern tools to explore new ideas, test assumptions, and accelerate innovation
- Elevate other designers by sharing your craft, process, and storytelling approach to raise the bar across the org
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of experience designing digital products and systems
- Expertise in interaction design, visual craft, and systems thinking
- Strong ability to connect design direction to business and customer outcomes
- Comfort exploring and experimenting with new tools and workflows for rapid prototyping and AI-integrated design
- A portfolio that demonstrates visionary product thinking, strong craft, and clear communication of impact
- Experience contributing to and evolving large-scale design systems
- A passion for collaboration and driving a culture of excellence in design
Benefits:
- Competitive pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life inside and outside of work
- Move fast: You'll own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe with the agency to move fast and see your results clearly
- Equipped to scale: We invest in what matters, including the latest enterprise AI tools, to help you work smarter and get more out of every day
- Best in class: Our team is full of sharp, kind, and generous colleagues who care about their craft and about helping you grow in yours
- Real rewards
- Belonging: We're intentional about building an environment where every Faire employee has equal access to opportunities, growth, and success