Lead Product Designer
Faire · New York, NY · 1 mo ago
HybridArt & Creative$184k–$253k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities (What You’ll Do), Qualifications, Benefits? There's a Salary Range (Pay) and Hybrid schedule (Schedule). Also Benefits: mention equity and benefits, but not detailed. The instruction: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. For Pay we have salary range: $184,000 - $253,000 per year, plus equity and benefits. That's specific enough. So we can have
Pay
withcontaining that info. Schedule: Hybrid: 3 days per week in office (Tue, Thu, flex day) plus up to 4 weeks remote per year. That's specific. So we can have
Schedule
. Benefits: The posting mentions "eligible for equity and benefits" and later "Competitive pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life inside and outside of work." That's somewhat generic but still mentions benefits. However we need real specific content; "comprehensive benefits" is vague. Might be considered filler. The instruction: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD"). "Comprehensive benefits" is vague but not exactly placeholder. Might be okay to include Benefits section with that sentence? But we could also fold benefits into Pay section or elsewhere. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine Pay and Benefits? But they said use headings for Benefits if present. Since we have some mention, we could include Benefits with the sentence about equity and comprehensive benefits. However we need to avoid filler. The sentence: "Competitive pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life inside and outside of work." That's somewhat generic but still specific about equity and comprehensive benefits. Might be acceptable. We also have About the role: we have "About This Role" paragraph. UseAbout the role
with that paragraph. Responsibilities: "What You’ll Do" bullet list. Use- .
Qualifications: list of qualifications. Use
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We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate like EEO, privacy, etc.
We need to preserve all substantive information. Let's extract.
About Faire: introductory paragraph about company. Should we include? The instruction: About the role heading is for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, etc. The introductory "About Faire" could be considered part of About the role? Probably we should include it under About the role section as prose. The "About This Role" heading is present; we can treat that as About the role. We'll include the introductory paragraphs about Faire as part of About the role.
Let's gather content:
About Faire paragraph(s):
"Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so businesses can grow and local communities can thrive. We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours."
About This Role paragraph(s):
"Faire is a company invested in good design—as a Lead Product Designer, you’ll join a tight-knit, collaborative team of designers who care deeply about creating beautiful and intuitive experiences. Our team is at the center of product work at Faire, designing experiences for the thousands of small retailers and maker brands growing their businesses in our marketplace. In this role, you’ll help shape Faire’s product, working with team members across research, engineering, product, and customer service. You'll embed in a product team and focus on designing features and experiences for a strategic pillar of our product. As a design lead, you'll strive to understand our customers’ challenges and craft flows that help people move through our products with confidence. We’re looking for team members that excel across the entire product development lifecycle, come with a growth mindset, and bring a genuine desire to learn about our customers. We're looking for candidates open to working in San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY."
What You’ll Do (Responsibilities):
- Define the direction by influencing what to build based on customer understanding and business context
- Lead end-to-end design from deep discovery and rapid prototyping through polished execution and production.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and data teams to explore new paradigms
- Tell powerful stories that connect design vision to tangible business and customer impact, inspiring alignment across teams and leadership.
- Push Faire’s design system forward through the lens of your work—evolving patterns, motion, and visual language that scale across the platform.
- Prototype fearlessly using modern tools to explore new ideas, test assumptions, and accelerate innovation.
- Elevate other designers by sharing your craft, process, and storytelling approach to raise the bar across the org.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of experience designing digital products and systems.
- Your previous work demonstrates an attention to detail and high quality visual, UX, systems design, and content design.
- Expertise in interaction design, visual craft, and systems thinking.
- Strong ability to connect design direction to business and customer outcomes.
- Comfort exploring and experimenting with new tools and workflows for rapid prototyping and AI-integrated design.
- A portfolio that demonstrates visionary product thinking, strong craft, and clear communication of impact.
- Experience contributing to and evolving large-scale design systems.
- A passion for collaboration and driving a culture of excellence in design.
- And, ideally, a sense of humor!
- We value candidates that bring a range of experience from different industries and a variety of creative influences.
- If you’re a maker or retailer yourself and can bring first-hand experience and empathy for the small business and entrepreneurial journey, tell us your story!
Pay:
"Salary Range San Francisco, CA and New York City, NY: the pay range for this role is $184,000 - $253,000 per year. This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future."
Schedule:
"Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in the job posting."
Benefits:
We have mention: "Competitive pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life inside and outside of work." Also earlier: "This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits." Could combine.
We could create Benefits section with that sentence.
Now produce HTML fragment:
About the role
... (combined About Faire and About This Role)
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Qualifications
- ... ...
Pay
Salary Range San Francisco, CA and New York City, NY: the pay range for this role is $184,000 - $253,000 per year. This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Schedule
Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in the job posting.
Benefits
Competitive pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life inside and outside of work.
Check for any boilerplate: we removed EEO, privacy, etc. Also removed "We have headquarters..." etc? That's part of About Faire? Actually after the About This Role paragraph there is a paragraph about "Why you’ll love working at Faire" etc. That includes benefits etc. We need to decide whether to include that. The "Why you’ll love working at Faire" section includes bullet points: Move fast, Equipped to scale, Best in class, Real rewards, Belonging, plus history. That's substantive but could be considered part of Benefits or About the role? It's more about culture. The instruction: include a section only when posting has real, specific content for it. This is specific content about culture. Could we create a section "Why you’ll love working at Faire"? Not in the prescribed headings list. The headings list includes About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. No "Why you’ll love working at Faire". So we should not create a new heading; we could fold that content into Benefits or About the role? The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could incorporate those points into Benefits section or About the role. However Benefits already has a short line; we could expand Benefits to include those bullet points. But the instruction says use- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we could make Benefits a list.
Thus we can create Benefits section with
- items: Move fast..., Equipped to scale..., Best in class..., Real rewards (competitive pay, equity, comprehensive benefits...), Belonging..., plus maybe the history/founding info? That's not a benefit but could be part of About the role. Better: Keep About the role includes company description and maybe the "Why you’ll love working at Faire" as part of About the role (since it's about the role/company). That seems appropriate. Thus About the role paragraph will include the initial Faire description, the About This Role paragraph, and the "Why you’ll love working at Faire" bullet points (as a list). Then Responsibilities, Qualifications, Pay, Schedule, Benefits (maybe just equity and comprehensive benefits). But we might duplicate benefits. Let's think: The "Why you’ll love working at Faire" includes Real rewards: Competitive pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life inside and outside of work. That's similar to Benefits section. So we could keep Benefits section with that sentence, and not duplicate. Thus About the role will include the initial Faire description, About This Role, and the other bullet points (Move fast, Equipped to scale, Best in class, Belonging, plus history/founding). That seems reasonable. Now we need to ensure we don't repeat any content. Let's extract the "Why you’ll love working at Faire" bullet points: - Move fast: You'll own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe with the agency to move fast and see your results clearly. - Equipped to scale: We invest in what matters, including the latest enterprise AI tools, to help you work smarter and get more out of every day. - Best in class: Our team is full of sharp, kind, and generous colleagues who care about their craft
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We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate like EEO, privacy, etc.
We need to preserve all substantive information. Let's extract.
About Faire: introductory paragraph about company. Should we include? The instruction: About the role heading is for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, etc. The introductory "About Faire" could be considered part of About the role? Probably we should include it under About the role section as prose. The "About This Role" heading is present; we can treat that as About the role. We'll include the introductory paragraphs about Faire as part of About the role.
Let's gather content:
About Faire paragraph(s):
"Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so businesses can grow and local communities can thrive. We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours."
About This Role paragraph(s):
"Faire is a company invested in good design—as a Lead Product Designer, you’ll join a tight-knit, collaborative team of designers who care deeply about creating beautiful and intuitive experiences. Our team is at the center of product work at Faire, designing experiences for the thousands of small retailers and maker brands growing their businesses in our marketplace. In this role, you’ll help shape Faire’s product, working with team members across research, engineering, product, and customer service. You'll embed in a product team and focus on designing features and experiences for a strategic pillar of our product. As a design lead, you'll strive to understand our customers’ challenges and craft flows that help people move through our products with confidence. We’re looking for team members that excel across the entire product development lifecycle, come with a growth mindset, and bring a genuine desire to learn about our customers. We're looking for candidates open to working in San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY."
What You’ll Do (Responsibilities):
- Define the direction by influencing what to build based on customer understanding and business context
- Lead end-to-end design from deep discovery and rapid prototyping through polished execution and production.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and data teams to explore new paradigms
- Tell powerful stories that connect design vision to tangible business and customer impact, inspiring alignment across teams and leadership.
- Push Faire’s design system forward through the lens of your work—evolving patterns, motion, and visual language that scale across the platform.
- Prototype fearlessly using modern tools to explore new ideas, test assumptions, and accelerate innovation.
- Elevate other designers by sharing your craft, process, and storytelling approach to raise the bar across the org.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of experience designing digital products and systems.
- Your previous work demonstrates an attention to detail and high quality visual, UX, systems design, and content design.
- Expertise in interaction design, visual craft, and systems thinking.
- Strong ability to connect design direction to business and customer outcomes.
- Comfort exploring and experimenting with new tools and workflows for rapid prototyping and AI-integrated design.
- A portfolio that demonstrates visionary product thinking, strong craft, and clear communication of impact.
- Experience contributing to and evolving large-scale design systems.
- A passion for collaboration and driving a culture of excellence in design.
- And, ideally, a sense of humor!
- We value candidates that bring a range of experience from different industries and a variety of creative influences.
- If you’re a maker or retailer yourself and can bring first-hand experience and empathy for the small business and entrepreneurial journey, tell us your story!
Pay:
"Salary Range San Francisco, CA and New York City, NY: the pay range for this role is $184,000 - $253,000 per year. This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future."
Schedule:
"Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in the job posting."
Benefits:
We have mention: "Competitive pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life inside and outside of work." Also earlier: "This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits." Could combine.
We could create Benefits section with that sentence.
Now produce HTML fragment: