Senior Product Designer, Concepts

Squarespace is a design-centric product company at heart that enables anyone to build a beautiful online presence. Product designers at Squarespace are embedded within teams alongside product managers and engineers. Our product teams are deeply collaborative, and each member is directly responsible for the team's success.

Our Concepts team works horizontally alongside all of our product teams—we work on new product features, features for front-site (squarespace.com), prototyping future thinking design within the platform, award-winning brand ambassador websites, and animation concepts to push our platform forward. We foster an entrepreneurial yet supportive environment where design defines us, ideas can come from anywhere, and execution is everything. You will collaborate with the world’s best developers and designers to work on a variety of projects across the Squarespace ecosystem. 

This role will report to our Design Director in NYC. We are open to this role being remote. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Research and design concepts for the web that are usable, beautiful, and marketable
• Develop information architecture and execute wireframes
• Design page layouts and interaction methodology
• Design of templates and art direction of photography for templates
• Work closely with developers during build processes
• Understand our products holistically in order to suggest and make improvements
• Work collaboratively with other designers to tackle complex design problems
• Work with stakeholders in other departments to understand business objectives and provide solutions through design
• Work collaboratively with our content studio to create beautiful visual content

QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong graphic design skills and a portfolio showcasing web design work and beautiful comps that communicate large concepts
• Proven ability to take a project from concept to launch with a strong understanding the process throughout
• Ability to put yourself in the customer’s shoes and come up with ideas that are relevant and enticing
• Affinity for consistency, color, typography, and a keen eye for subtle details
• Knowledge of current trends in design and technology
• Knowledge of motion design programs is a plus
• Understanding of HTML, CSS, Javascript, browsers, and devices is a plus
• While not required, the ability to write front-end code (HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc.) is preferred

A portfolio of graphic and web design work is required for consideration.

ABOUT SQUARESPACE

Squarespace makes beautiful products to help people with creative ideas succeed. By blending elegant design and engineering, we empower millions of people — from individuals and local artists to entrepreneurs shaping the world's most iconic businesses — to share their stories with the world. Squarespace's team of more than 1,200 is headquartered in downtown New York City, with offices in Dublin and Portland. For more information, visit www.squarespace.com/about.

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Health insurance with 100% premium covered for you and your dependent children
• Flexible vacation and paid time off
• Up to 20 weeks of paid family leave
• Equity plan for all employees
• Retirement benefits with employer match
• Fertility and adoption benefits
• Free lunch and snacks at all offices
• Education reimbursement
• Dog-friendly workplace in New York office
• Commuter benefit in the form of reduced tax (Ireland) and pretax (US)

Today, more than a million people around the globe use Squarespace to share different perspectives and experiences with the world. Not only do we embrace and celebrate the diversity of our customer base, but we also work toward the same in our employees. At Squarespace, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.