Director, User Experience & Product Design

Food52 is an award-winning brand in the kitchen and home space, using an innovative commerce, content and community business model to reach over 24 million homecooks and homebodies, and was recently named No. 28 on Fast Company’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2022. We’re passionate about giving our deeply-engaged audience everything they need to enjoy life’s most important pleasures – food, home & connection to others.

As part of an ongoing initiative, we remain focused and committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion as the center of our hiring process and our company culture. We're committed to building a community that values and honors the contributions of underrepresentedcommunities to our shared culinary experience—starting with the Food52 family. You can read more about our support, and link to our progress, in our DEI Vision Statement.

We are looking for the Director, User Experience and Product Design to lead a team defining our visual voice and evolving our digital products. In this role, you will partner closely with editorial, commerce, brand publishing, and growth teams to design experiences for our web and mobile audiences, while partnering with product, engineering and to evolve our monetization opportunities and e-commerce platform.  You will oversee a growing product design team focusing on our primary digital experiences.  This will include recipes and content experiences, video, newsletters, events and commerce.

Reporting to the Chief Product and Technology Officer, you’ll work closely with our Product, Design and Engineering team and be a part of the PDE leadership team.

Currently, Food52 does not provide Visa sponsorship.  All applicants must be able to provide legal proof of their eligibility to work in the U.S.

Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate's relevant work experience, skillset and geographic location, and includes an annual bonus plan. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes:

Medical, dental and vision options (some at no cost to you!)

Flexible spending accounts (health & dependent care)

hort and long term disability, life insurance

401(k) retirement plan

aid holidays, unlimited vacation, company-wide weeks off (Summer Week and Winter Week)

Flexible hours and working arrangements

Exclusive access and employee discounts to our Food52 and Schoolhouse shop products!

Food52 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of one's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. Food52 will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local "Fair Chance" laws.