Lead Product Designer

📋 Description

• AllTrails is the most trusted and used outdoors platform in the world.

• We help people explore the outdoors with hand-curated trail maps along with photos, reviews, and user recordings crowdsourced from our community of millions of registered hikers, mountain bikers, and trail runners in 150 countries.

• AllTrails is frequently ranked as a top-5 Health and Fitness app and has been downloaded by over 75 million people worldwide.

• AllTrails was selected as Apple's App of the Year in 2023!

• Every day, we solve incredibly hard problems so that we can get more people outside having healthy, authentic experiences and a deeper appreciation of the outdoors.

• This is a U.S.-based remote position. San Francisco Bay Area employees are highly encouraged to come into the office one day a week.

• We are looking for a strong and passionate Design Lead to help us shape the future of AllTrails.

• This role will report to a Design Director and will be a part of a small and talented product design team.

• You’ll work closely with product management, research, engineering, and marketing to imagine, execute and deliver innovative products that elevate users’ experience on our platform.

• This role will work collaboratively across many areas of the product including Discovery, Search, Planning and Community.

• You will obsess over craft and details of typography, layout, interaction and interface design.

• You will think holistically by defining seamless end-to-end experiences that bring to life the strategic value of AllTrails through simple, intuitive and beautiful product design.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience researching, designing, and shipping consumer facing products/features for iOS, Android, and web

• A passion for turning complex problems into elegant and engaging user experiences

• Outstanding product design sensibility and craft - excelling at UX, visual design and interaction

• Ability to prioritize and apply learnings from research, metrics and usability to inform and evolve design decisions

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across functions - including Product Management and Engineering - to define, develop and optimize new product features

• Product sensibility – experience informing project timelines and scope prioritization

• Desire to share work early and seek constructive feedback from team members at all levels

• Self motivated, and confident independently designing end-to-end design work - creating concepts, defining requirements, documenting and assessing post-launch learnings

• Manage time and priorities in an effective and efficient manner

• Experience designing inclusively (ex. international, multi-language, accessible use cases)

• Adept in design, prototyping and research tools such as Figma, Proto Pie and Usertesting.com

• Humble, empathetic and open-minded

• Passion for helping people find their way outside

• Bonus: diverse experience across large and small companies, as well as agencies

• Please note: A portfolio link is required for consideration

🏖️ Benefits

• A competitive and equitable compensation plan. This is a full-time, salaried position that includes equity

• Physical & mental well-being including health, dental and vision benefits

• Trail Days: First Friday of each month off to hit the trails!

• Unlimited PTO

• Flexible parental leave

• Remote employee equipment stipend to create a great remote work environment

• Annual continuing education stipend

• Discounts on subscription and merchandise for you and your friends & family

• An authentic investment in you as a human being and your career as a professional