Product Designer, Community

About the role

The Product Designer will help shape community experiences at Gaia, a subscription streaming platform focused on empowering the evolution of consciousness. They will design social and participatory experiences including discussion spaces, groups, live events, peer-to-peer interactions, and other community-driven features.

Responsibilities

• Create user flows, interaction patterns, and information architecture that support engagement and belonging
• Contribute to and evolve Gaia’s design system and visual language
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and cross-functional stakeholders
• Conduct user research, usability testing, and competitive analysis to inform design decisions
• Use analytics and user insights to iterate on experiences and identify opportunities for improvement
• Deliver clean, production-ready Figma files and collaborate with developers through implementation
• Balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints in a fast-moving environment

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design experience, preferably within growth-stage B2C companies
• Strong understanding of information architecture and interaction design
• Experience designing responsive web and mobile applications
• Proficiency in Figma and component-based design systems
• Experience leveraging AI tools throughout the design process to support research, ideation, prototyping, and workflow efficiency
• Strong visual design fundamentals including typography, layout, accessibility, and hierarchy
• Experience conducting user research and applying data-informed design thinking
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across disciplines
• Comfortable working autonomously in ambiguous or early-stage product environments
• Basic understanding of frontend development constraints and implementation workflows

Preferred Skills

• Experience designing community platforms
• Experience with AI/ML-driven product experiences
• Passion for wellness, mindfulness, personal growth, or spirituality