Staff Product Designer, Commerce

About the role

The Role Linktree is evolving from a link-in-bio product into the control center for digital presence — where creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses curate their profile, grow and engage their audience, and increasingly turn that audience into a business. Commerce is the layer that enables people to sell what they offer, land partnerships, and create paid audience experiences directly through their Linktree. It includes first-party (1P) commerce—people’s own offers such as physical and digital products, services, courses, and bookings—as well as third-party (3P) commerce, including affiliate and sponsored offers and brand collaborations. It also includes paid audience experiences, such as paid messaging, that allow audiences to engage more directly with creators and businesses.

Responsibilities

• Lead design for Commerce across 1P and 3P commerce surfaces and paid audience experiences, along with the tools that help people manage and grow them on Linktree.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, and Research to translate user needs and business opportunities into clear, end-to-end experiences.
• Define patterns for setup, merchandising, discovery, conversion, and management across products, services, courses, bookings, and partnership workflows.
• Shape the supporting systems around Commerce—including Media Kits, rewards, earnings insights, and optimization tooling—so people can understand performance and act on it.
• Drive alignment across teams on the principles and patterns that make Commerce experiences coherent across Linktree.
• Influence product roadmap and provide hands-on design leadership to ensure teams ship high-quality experiences across both audience-facing surfaces and business management tools.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product design experience, including owning complex, cross-functional systems from concept through launch and iteration.
• Proven ability to design in systems, not just screens: patterns, flows, frameworks, and scalable UX architecture.
• Strong experience with commerce, marketplace, creator, SMB, or workflow-heavy products.
• Comfort designing across ambiguity—turning multiple earning models and constraints into clear, intuitive product experiences.
• Ability to balance the needs of multiple sides of an ecosystem, including sellers, audiences, brands, and partners.
• Strong collaboration with Product, Engineering, Data, and Research partners, with the ability to influence product strategy as well as execution.
• A portfolio showing exceptional craft and end-to-end thinking (problem framing → flows → UI → iteration → outcomes).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or related field.
• Experience designing for commerce platforms (products, services, bookings, subscriptions).
• Experience with affiliate, sponsorship, or partnership ecosystems.
• Experience with creator tools or SMB platforms.
• Experience with AI-powered commerce experiences such as recommendations, personalization, insights, or merchandising.

Skills

• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies.
• Experience with design systems and frameworks.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, or similar.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Benefits

Linktree is committed to providing a fair and competitive compensation package including cash, equity, and benefits. The base salary offered for this role is targeted at $200,000 - $230,000 for roles based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Final offers depend on multiple factors including location, experience, expertise, and role scope, and may vary from the range listed.

Pay

Base salary offered for this role is targeted at $200,000 - $230,000 for roles based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Final offers depend on multiple factors including location, experience, expertise, and role scope, and may vary from the range listed.

Schedule

We are a global, diverse team spread across continents with offices in London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, and San Francisco. We work together flexibly and you can choose the setup that works best for you: fully remote or a hybrid mix of office and home. We offer autonomy in how you structure your days and weeks. While we’re mindful of time zones and occasionally collaborate outside the typical 9–5, we lean into async work to keep things flowing.