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We make nutritious, delicious, ready-to-eat meals, snacks, and juices delivered right to our customers’ doorsteps. We’ve served over 27 million meals to customers all over America, but we’re just getting started. We’re launching in new cities, expanding our menu, and upgrading our user experience to mainstream a new way of eating that can genuinely heal people and our planet - and we need more teammates to join us.\nThistle is headquartered in San Francisco, but our product team is remote. Currently, the team has members in SF, LA, Oregon, Denver, Kansas City, Austin, and Philadelphia, with other Thistle departments spread across the US. You can learn more about life as a remote employee at Thistle here. While this is a remote role, the Staff/Lead Product Designer will be expected to travel 2-4 times a year to visit our production facilities and collaborate with teammates in person.\nAbout the Role\nAs the Staff/Lead Product Designer, you’ll work with our product and engineering teams, as well as cross-functional partners (such as marketing, customer experience, and internal operations). Reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, you’ll ensure a consistent, high-quality user experience for both consumers and internal users, while creating repeatable systems and guidelines that help design scale across the organization.\nWhen applying for this role, please provide a link to your portfolio featuring examples of your product design work and thinking. Don’t forget to include any passwords needed to access your portfolio!\nHow You’ll Make a Difference\nThink holistically about complex systems, empathize with customers, and understand business objectives to create compelling and effective product experiences.\nDevelop user-centered design solutions based on research, member insights, and industry best practices.\nPartner with product to help define and execute research initiatives to guide the direction of your design work as well as inform business strategy.\nPresent design concepts and clearly communicate design intent through design specs and presentation documents.\nArticulate, negotiate, and refine design requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers to arrive at the best design solutions.\nOwn and iterate on our design system and advocate for scalable design solutions across product, brand, and marketing.\nCollaborate with our marketing team to ensure brand consistency and evolve our brand design system to be even more resonant and differentiating. \nWork cross-functionally with product, data, marketing, engineering, and operations partners to represent the design function, facilitate design discussions, and give feedback in planning and product channels.\nOn Day 1, you’ll be the single member of our product design team. But when we expand the size of our product design team, you will:Build and manage our product design team. Hire the best, lead with a well-communicated vision, provide supportive coaching, and guide individuals along deliberate career development paths.\nYou’ll be a player-coach, directly owning and executing projects while also being a people manager.\n\nQualifications\nWho You Are\n10+ years of relevant experience in user experience design in a product-driven company.\nDemonstrated ability to lead the conception and prototyping of brand new products as well as feature enhancements, all with a user-centered design process.\nYou have a user and data-informed design mentality. 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