TITLE: Staff/Lead Product Designer
Department: Data
Reports to: Chief Product Officer
About Thistle
Thistle provides nutritious, ready-to-eat meals, snacks and juices, with a mission to improve health and the sustainability of the food system. Its product team is remote across the United States. This role is remote in the U.S. with travel 2–4 times a year to production facilities for in-person collaboration.
About the role
Work with product and engineering teams and cross-functional partners in marketing, customer experience and internal operations. Ensure a consistent, high-quality experience for consumers and internal users, and create repeatable systems and guidelines that help design scale across the organization. Applicants should provide a portfolio link with examples of product-design work and thinking.
Responsibilities
• Understand complex systems, customers and business objectives to create effective product experiences.
• Develop user-centered solutions based on research, member insights and industry best practices.
• Partner with product to define and execute research that guides design and business strategy.
• Present design concepts and communicate design intent through specifications and presentations.
• Refine requirements with product managers and engineers.
• Own and iterate the design system and advocate for scalable product, brand and marketing design solutions.
• Collaborate with product, data, marketing, engineering and operations; represent design in planning and product discussions.
• Initially serve as the sole product designer; as the team grows, build and manage the design team while continuing to own and execute projects.
Full-time. Thistle-listed base salary: $170,000–$200,000 per year.
