Senior Product Designer (US/CA)

About Aspire

Aspire is a leading provider of influencer marketing software and services for social commerce at scale. Since 2014, Aspire has helped brands build and manage relationships with millions of influencers, inspiring marketers to think bigger, plan smarter, and deliver outsized value. Brands and creators use Aspire to find and vet each other, activate influencer marketing campaigns of any size, and put the magic of branded content to work at scale. 

As a recognized leader by Forrester Research, Aspire has paid out over $100M to creators and is trusted by over 1,000 top brands from fashion to fitness and everything in between.

We’re growing across the board - and we're looking for a Product Designer to join our distributed remote Product team! With a strong focus on growth and personal development, Aspire is the perfect place to develop your skills in a fast-paced, forward-thinking environment. 

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Product Designer in USA / Canada to help shape our product vision and build engaging consumer grade experiences for our brands and creators.  As a Product Designer, you will help shape and redefine the user experience and design of Aspire for our Brands and Creators. You are a highly motivated and collaborative designer who will use your customer obsession and structured problem solving skills to help drive the product forward. You will be responsible for the product’s UX journey and work closely with product managers and engineers to bring delightful experiences to market - quickly and at a high quality. You are ultimately responsible for the customer’s journey through the application. 

As a Product Designer, you will own the design process from ideation, research through to execution and post delivery analysis. Our designers are creative, opinionated, and passionate about their craft - all in a fast paced environment. The ideal candidate will have experience in designing user flows for enterprise applications, is a self starter, curious about the customer and the technology and loves to sweat the details to set a standard for amazing UX. 

We are a flat organization with empowered individuals. The role will report directly to the SVP of Product and Design. 

What you'll be working on:

• Own the customer experience for substantial existing and new parts of Aspire
• Understand our customers, our products, and our competitors to identify needs & opportunities to advance our product and the user experience
• Translate complex requirements into intuitive, beautiful interfaces and workflows
• Lead the product thinking through design led frameworks and support it with information architecture diagrams, wireframes, user flows, and prototypes for your features
• Conduct user research to identify pain points, determine priorities, and inform design decisions
• Contribute to product strategy through customer research and design explorations
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Design teams to develop and implement meaningful product and process changes
• Closely collaborate with our Marketing, Sales, and Customer Experience teams to solicit their feedback and understand customer needs. 

What we're looking for: (Job Requirements/Must have) 

• 4+ years experience in a Product Designer role at SaaS companies
• Demonstrated ability to define a customer-centric UX that balances product priorities, technical constraints, and UX simplicity
• Exceptional skills in the craft and execution of product design work, from high-level strategic direction down to UX design details.
• Strong prioritization and organizational skills. Excited by the idea of managing multiple responsibilities at once, rapid iterations, and delivering refined designs in a short time
• Proven bar raiser with a keen sense of high quality design and UX that drives user engagement and improves customer NPS
• Experience in using Figma to design products.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; the ability to communicate design decisions across the organization
• Act as a product owner, consistently generates customer insights and influences feature direction

Bonus Points:

• Work in a DTC (Direct to Consumer) experience or marketplace solutions would be a bonus - but not required.

Benefits and Perks 

• Health, Dental & Vision - Put your health first with 90% covered health insurance. (U.S Only)
• 4 months of Paid Parental Leave - Aspire has an industry-leading parental leave policy for both mothers and fathers.
• Unlimited PTO - Refuel and rest with our unlimited paid time-off policy.
• Flexible Schedules - Set your hours by your calendar, not the clock.
• Work From Home Stipend -  $400 to cover your remote work setup.

Our compensation philosophy: we use a market-based approach to compensation. This means we use a series of compensation tools to help us understand how companies value this role in the U.S. market based on function, level, geographic location, and positions benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. To comply with local legislation and provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Multiple factors, including geographic location, candidate experience, and expertise, determine final offer amounts and may vary from the amounts listed above. We have competitive pay bands for all other countries based on market standards.

The base salary for this role is between USD $130K - $180K annually. 

Aspire is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all. Please apply to this role if you feel you are a good fit, regardless of your race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other perceived limiting factor. We welcome applicants from all walks of life.