Search Designer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 8, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 2, 2026.
Join our team as a Search Designer, where you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of our search experience. You'll establish the design foundation for search, design across the full search journey, and work closely with data science, ML engineering, and research. You'll also define how sponsored and organic results coexist and help grow the commercial side through trusted experiences. This is a long-haul effort, and you'll have a PM, data scientists, ML engineers, and researchers working alongside you.
Missions
- Establish the design foundation for Search, including principles, patterns, and components.
- Design across the full Search journey, from the entry point and typeahead through results, filters, and overall page layout.
- Prototype early and often, co-write test hypotheses with your PM and data partners, and let what the experiments show guide what you build next.
Profil recherché
- You've designed search or discovery before and can show the results. You think of search as a conversation rather than a list of links: what happens as someone starts typing, how very different kinds of results (posts, people, places, businesses) sit side by side, how a neighbor narrows things down, and what we say when we come up empty- You're also comfortable around revenue. You've worked beside ads and monetization teams and can design paid placements that feel like help instead of interruption. This is a long-haul effort, and you'll have a PM, data scientists, ML engineers, and researchers working alongside you
- Clear communication across disciplines, a bias for action, and the patience and drive for a long rebuild
- Sharp consumer instincts and real curiosity about how neighbors look for local information
- Comfort designing for experimentation: framing hypotheses with PM and data science, interpreting mixed results, and recommending what ships
- A portfolio that shows full-range craft: framing the problem, interaction and visual design, prototyping, and real care for the unglamorous states like loading, empty, and error
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swift, Java, or Xcode
- Experience partnering with ads or monetization teams, and a point of view on when paid content helps people and when it gets in their way
- Breadth across areas like growth, marketplaces, ads, or new-product work, and the adaptability to shift as priorities change
- 5+ years of product design experience, with substantial time on search, discovery, or other dense, content-heavy surfaces used by large audiences
- Enough fluency in how search works (query understanding, retrieval, ranking) to design alongside ML and LLM features, including the moments when they get things wrong
- A record of lifting engagement and revenue through design, with sound judgment about the trade-offs between them