About Mixbook
Mixbook is an award-winning design platform giving consumers unrivaled creative freedom to design and share one-of-a-kind stories, transforming the lives of more than 6M people. Today, we are the #1 rated photo book service in the US with 26K 5-star reviews and a profitable, growing business. Customers love Mixbook for our powerful and intuitive editor, superb quality, designer themes, and our fanatical customer service.
Founded by two Inc 30 Under 30 entrepreneurs from UC Berkeley California, Mixbook has been featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, TechCrunch, The Verge, Washington Post, New York Times, and many other global media outlets.
Our Product Team is growing as we write the next chapter in Mixbook history! We are seeking a Product Design Lead to apply their mastery to creating delightfully simple experiences for our customers, shuffling gracefully between entrepreneurial innovation to day-in-day-out iterative craftsmanship. Alongside Product Managers, you’ll collaborate across functions to form product strategies, facilitate design thinking, design new features (while enhancing existing ones), and launch new products. You are a human-centered usability advocate who leverages research and data insights to design unforgettable experiences that meet our customers’ needs. Your innovative designs will help users create meaningful and visually compelling narratives that capture their memories and experiences in a truly personalized way. You are an all for one, one for all teammate with a passion for outstanding usability, beautiful design and delightful experiences.
This is a remote position with travel (1-2x a year potentially) to the San Francisco Bay Area and Moldova.
Mixbook is looking for a phenomenal Product Design Lead to shape the future of how we remember, visualize and interact with our memories. Crafting a story around our photos can be hard, and we are building new ways to relive and share memories with GenAI-powered storytelling artifacts, tools and technologies. This key role will be involved in every aspect of the product development process from exploring Mixbook’s next mind-blowing innovation to iterating/improving/refining ideas driven by insights from research, user testing and data analysis. All of our efforts make a huge impact on Mixbook’s product vision of serving customers who want complete creative control or a fully automated design experience, on any device.
Please provide a portfolio of work that demonstrates your experience in end-to-end product design.
Company Mission
Our mission is to empower people to be creative and connect deeply with the ones they love.
Our Culture
Unlike many growth companies, we have invested deeply in culture. Organizational health is central to our long-term strategy – we believe that when we love our people, they will love our customers, and our customers will love our business. We’ve adopted Patrick Lencioni’s principles from his book, “The Advantage”, and work diligently to foster a healthy environment - characterized by high morale + productivity, low turnover, and minimal politics + confusion. Our team is built on a foundation of vulnerability-based trust, engaging in constructive conflict, focusing on results and the following core values:
If you’re a candidate who values a healthy, thriving organizational culture and understands the importance of actively contributing to it, we invite you to apply.
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