We are seeking a highly skilled and visionary Staff Visual Designer to join our Brand Experiences Team at Tinder. In this crucial role, you will lead the charge in building our brand through exceptional product experiences. Your focus will be on creating meaningful digital moments that resonate with our users, leveraging interactive design principles to foster brand love and advocacy. You will shape user experiences that underscore our commitment to fostering genuine connections and ensure our brand expression is consistent both inside and outside the product.
Join us in shaping the future of Tinder by creating experiences that not only connect people but also make them celebrate and advocate for our brand! If you're passionate about building a brand through innovative product experiences and have the skills to lead and inspire a team, we'd love to hear from you!
Where you’ll work:
This is a hybrid role and requires in-office collaboration two times per week. This position is located in West Hollywood and/or San Francisco, California. Please include your preferred location in your application.
In this role, you will:
- Drive key design initiatives that significantly enhance user experiences and elevate our brand within the product.
- Develop and implement interactive design strategies that create memorable and meaningful digital moments.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams—including product managers, engineers, marketers, and executives—to ensure cohesive brand expression.
- Oversee a team of designers, providing guidance, inspiration, and fostering an environment of growth and excellence.
- Champion user-centric design principles and advocate for the highest standards of aesthetic intelligence across all projects. Shape the evolution of Tinder’s visual design system, ensuring cohesive and scalable design elements across the product.
- Provide insights and connect various initiatives across different pillars to ensure consistency and alignment with our brand vision.
- Present design concepts to senior leadership and incorporate feedback to refine and enhance our product experiences.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of our design systems, ensuring they enable efficient and consistent work across teams.
- Keep abreast of industry developments to integrate best practices and innovative approaches into our design process. Stay ahead of visual design trends, bringing fresh ideas and a creative perspective to the team.
- Ensure that our brand's expression outside the product matches the exceptional experiences within it.
You’ll need:
- 7+ years in visual, interactive, or product design with a strong portfolio showcasing product-led brand building especially a focus on digital products or consumer platforms.
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire a team of designers to achieve exceptional results.
- Deep understanding of interactive principles and how to create engaging digital experiences that build brand affinity.
- Expertise in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and prototyping tools.
- Strong communication skills, capable of presenting and justifying design decisions to stakeholders at all levels.
- A strong desire to learn about users, technology, and new ways of enhancing human connections, with an empathetic approach to design.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively work within a matrix organization and across cross-functional teams.
- Experience working within and contributing to a design system, ensuring consistency across all visual touch points.
- Comfort navigating complex organizational structures and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
As a full-time employee, you will enjoy:
- Unlimited PTO (with no waiting period), 10 annual Wellness Days
- Time off to volunteer and charitable donations matched up to $15,000 annually
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage
- 100% 401(k) employer match up to 10%, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- 100% paid parental leave (including for non-birthing parents), family forming benefits, and Milk Stork, which provides access to breast milk shipping for business travel, surrogacy, and employee relocation
- Investment in your development: mentorship through our MentorMatch program, access to 6,000+ online courses through Udemy, and an annual $3,000 stipend for your professional development
- Investment in your wellness: access to mental health support via Modern Health, BetterHelp, and Insight Timer; paid concierge medical membership, pet insurance, fitness membership subsidy, and commuter subsidy
- Free subscription to Tinder GoldAs a full-time employee, you will enjoy:
Commitment to Inclusion
At Tinder, we don’t just accept difference, we celebrate it. We strive to build a workplace that reflects the rich diversity of our members around the world, and we value unique perspectives and backgrounds. Even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications, we invite you to apply and show us how your skills could transfer. Tinder is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace where we welcome people of all sexes, gender identities, races, ethnicities, disabilities, and other lived experiences. Learn more here:
https://www.lifeattinder.com/dei
If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact [email protected]
