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We're a small, dedicated team that cares deeply and takes real ownership of the problems we tackle, moving fast while building something that lasts. Our actions and decision-making are guided by four principles: Humans First, Deepen Understanding, Orient for Impact, and Ladder Together.\nDesign is a vital discipline at Medium. We have a long, visible history of raising the design bar for reading and writing on the internet. We continue to believe that by radically redefining the experience of reading and writing online, we foster humans-first spaces that showcase individual voices and stories.\nToday, Medium is a profitable and independently-funded company. This has enabled us to embark on a new era that requires us to think big and explore uncharted territory. If you want to join and shape the future of reading and writing with urgency, care, and play, come help us build what’s next!\nThe Role\nAt Medium, designers and engineers work across the full range of the product development process. We’re looking for someone who lives and breathes reading and writing, not just someone who’s designed a lot of software. As a Staff Product Designer on the team, you’ll report to the Director of Product Design and work on multiple projects from ideation to launch.\nAs part of a product team, you’ll orient your work towards high-impact opportunities. You’ll execute on product strategy by pitching what gets built, shaping its scope, and planning how it gets done. You will own and create high-quality design work that transforms those priorities into simple, intuitive solutions that you ship alongside your team.\nAs a member of the design function, you’ll collaborate with engineering to uphold a quality bar with your design instincts, visual design sensibility, attention to detail, and taste. With your design teammates, you are someone who welcomes feedback, isn’t precious about your work, and elevates everyone’s impact through collaboration.\nAs a Median, you’ll be someone who embodies our operating principles and demonstrates empathy and resilience. You’ll demonstrate empathy for our users, to build a platform and products they’ll love. As a teammate, you’ll demonstrate empathy for your coworkers, to contribute to a workplace we love, and the resilience to be able to take feedback from anywhere, consider it gracefully, and fold it into your thinking and work.\nWhat You’ll Do\nCollaborate closely with other engineers, designers, and leadership to translate product strategy and complex challenges into well-defined product initiatives.\nOwn and execute high-quality designs, interactions, and prototypes that distill a product vision into tangible experiences for our users.\nLeverage AI design tools and workflows effectively to create artifacts that explore and validate new ideas, features, and interactions.\nContribute to our design system to ensure a cohesive and scalable visual language across the product.\nConduct user research to uncover pain points and opportunities, using insights to inform design decisions.\nRepresent the design team by upholding a high design bar, working with your teammates to make thoughtful, intentional decisions at every step.\nWhat You Have\n7+ years of experience designing products in a fast-paced environment working closely with engineering, design, and product teammates to develop the strategy and rationale for features.\nAn outstanding portfolio with presentable case studies of your best work, showcasing a foundation in typography, interaction and visual design, and idea generation for work you’ve shipped.\nThe ability to tackle complex challenges and transform them into simple, intuitive experiences.\nThe ability to change altitude from design details to big picture thinking, while maintaining a high pace of execution and quality bar.\nAn understanding of design systems, including an understanding of how and why the field has evolved and a point of view on what comes next.\nA learning and growth mindset. We’re a small team. Our shape and process will evolve and change many times over the next few years. We strive to continuously improve, iterate, and integrate what we learn-from our work and each other.\nExcellent written, verbal, and storytelling skills. We are a reading and writing company, after all!\nBenefits\nIn addition to the new experiences you'll pick up, here's what else you'll enjoy by working at Medium:\nWorking with a fully distributed team: We’re fully remote and have teammates across the U.S. & France\nHealthcare benefits covered at 100% for employees and 80% for dependents\nGenerous parental leave policy\nTwice a year company off-sites\nMental health support through Spring Health (or find a provider through Rula or Kaiser Mental Health Network)\nFinancial wellness support through Northstar\nStipends for co-working, professional development, wifi, and a one-time home office bonus\nUnlimited PTO and standard company holidays\nA discounted Medium membership\nWhy Medium\nAt Medium, inclusion, diversity, and equity are core to how we work and what we build. We believe a more inclusive team creates a better product-one that’s intuitive, thoughtful, and serves a wide range of users. We strive to foster a supportive, fun, and challenging environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive.\nWe welcome applicants from all walks of life and strongly encourage those from historically underrepresented groups to apply. Our hiring process is built to ensure fairness and equal opportunity for everyone. Even if your experience doesn’t match every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you-your perspective and passion matter more than checking every box. We actively track representation across our hiring pipelines and hold ourselves accountable to building inclusively.\nLearn more about our mission, operating principles, and culture:\nYes to a diverse community\nBe part of a better internet\nMedium Rules\nOperating Principles\nRead about our story here.\nRead our guidance on AI use for candidates. We believe human ideas have the power to change how people think, for the better. That belief shapes how we hire. We use AI tools ourselves, but we’ve thought carefully about where it adds value and where it gets in the way of something important.\nSalary Range\n$170,000—$220,000 USD\nGDPR Notice\nWe will process your personal data as part of our recruitment process, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For details on how we use your data, including the legal bases for processing, how long we retain it, and your rights under GDPR, please refer to our Privacy Notice.\nWe may retain your information for future job opportunities based on our legitimate interest in building a talent pool. You can object to this at any time by contacting us at .\nCCPA Notice\nIf you are a California resident, you have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). 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