Lead Product Designer

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🔥 2 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $190k - $258k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

Where this job comes from

Posted on Bluesky Social's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship 2 minutes ago

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Bluesky Social

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🔌 API

👥 B2C

💰 $100M Later Stage VC (Series B) on 2025-01

API • B2C

Bluesky is an open, decentralized social network built on the AT Protocol that aims to give users control over their timelines, moderation, and identity across the social internet. It positions itself as social media made for communities and creators, emphasizing open source infrastructure, public APIs, and a developer ecosystem for building custom feeds, clients, bots, and moderation tools. Bluesky is organized as a Public Benefit Corporation and focuses on interoperability, user choice, and preventing centralized ownership of social networks.

📋 Description

• Own significant design projects end-to-end, from ideation and exploration through execution, launch, and post-release iteration • Make product judgment decisions about scope, sequencing, quality, and when not to ship • Design cohesive, intuitive interaction flows and interfaces across iOS, Android, and web • Drive and evolve Bluesky’s visual language, design system, and holistic product identity • Review real usage, synthesize user feedback, and improve the product • Refine copy, states, hierarchy, accessibility, and interaction polish • Manage a team of 2–4 product designers through 1:1s, performance reviews, goal-setting, and career development • Mentor and grow designers at all levels • Lead design critiques and reviews and raise the team’s quality bar • Hire and onboard design talent • Define design collaboration, prioritization, and quality practices at Bluesky • Partner with product and engineering leadership to define problems, shape roadmaps, and make strategic tradeoffs • Represent design in cross-functional conversations • Champion users by translating research and qualitative signals into product direction

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing digital products, with a strong portfolio of shipped work • 3–5 years leading product design for social, platforms, and/or consumer digital products • Experience directly managing designers, including performance reviews, hiring, and career development • Strong hands-on product design, prototyping, and attention to detail • Strong visual design skills, including aesthetic judgment around layout, typography, and hierarchy • Ability to represent design confidently to leadership and cross-functional partners • Deep experience building and evolving scalable design systems • Experience influencing product direction, shaping roadmaps, and defining what to build and why • Strong user empathy and ability to translate qualitative signals into actionable product insights • Highly proficient with Figma, including advanced component and system work, and comfortable building interactive prototypes • Ability to take feedback and iterate quickly • Portfolio or examples of past work required in the cover letter or resume

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity considered in the total compensation package

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