Senior Product Designer

About the role

This Senior Product Designer role is a foundational senior IC hire at Grindr: someone who sets the quality bar, drives design from ambiguity to shipped product, and helps define how the design function operates as we scale. The mandate is a full uplift of the Grindr core app, used by millions daily, with the ownership and proximity to leadership to make it happen. At a company this size, the decisions you make show up in the product within weeks, not quarters.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product design for core areas of the Grindr app—from early discovery and problem framing through high-fidelity production specs and shipped features
• Drive design decisions independently with clear rationale, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Data to move work from ambiguity to execution at pace
• Raise the quality bar across the team by modeling excellent craft, rigorous process, and sharp cross-functional communication
• Collaborate actively with the Design Systems Specialist to contribute to and improve Grindr’s evolving design system—bringing a consumer product lens to system decisions
• Shape Grindr’s design culture as a senior IC on the team—contributing to how we critique, how we give feedback, and how we operate

Requirements

• 5+ years of product design experience as a senior IC at a consumer-focused tech company
• Portfolio demonstrating strong end-to-end ownership—problem framing to shipped solution—with clear articulation of your role, decisions made, and measurable impact
• Proven experience designing for consumer mobile apps on iOS and/or Android, including complex interaction systems, edge cases, and multi-state flows
• Track record of shipping features end-to-end within tight timelines, with systems thinking that accounts for implementation constraints and business impact
• Strong communication skills—able to articulate design rationale, influence stakeholders, and build alignment with product and engineering partners
• Experience designing for monetization surfaces—paywalls, subscriptions, conversion flows, or upsell moments

You may thrive in this role if you…

• Are AI-native or rapidly becoming so—you actively use AI tools in your workflow and are always looking for new ways to leverage them
• Have worked at a growth-stage startup or smaller company and know how to do more with less—you don’t need a fully built system to execute at a high level
• Thrive in ambiguity and move quickly when requirements shift—you generate multiple strong concepts fast without sacrificing craft
• Care about community, inclusion, and building products that genuinely serve an underrepresented user base
• Want to grow into a senior design voice on a team being built for scale—and are energized by proximity to product and engineering leadership, not just execution

Benefits and perks

• Health, Dental & Vision: Full premium coverage for you. Partial coverage for dependents.
• Family Formation: Up to $300,000 in fertility and family-building support, covering IVF, surrogacy, egg freezing, and adoption.
• Retirement: 401(k) with 6% match and immediate vesting.
• Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation, company bonus, and equity for every employee.
• Gender-Affirming Care: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
• Time Off & Rest: Flexible vacation policy. Two company-wide rest weeks per year.
• Other Benefits: Monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting; breakfast/lunch