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Senior Product Designer

New York

About LineLeap

LineLeap (YCombinator S19) is building new ways to interact and transact with your favorite bars, clubs, and nightlife venues. Starting in 2017, LineLeap has allowed users to skip the line while providing venues with new revenue that helps grow their businesses even further. Since then, LineLeap has charted as high as #14 in the App Store and expanded to offering in-app cover payment, drink ordering, and event ticketing, along with giving venues powerful marketing and analytics tools so they can bring unforgettable experiences to their customers. LineLeap gives our 1 million+ users a delightful and unique way to interact with their go-to venues, allowing them to get to the fun, faster.

About The Team 

We are building a world-class product team that cares deeply about creating user experiences that our customers love, powered by a culture of hard work, grit, and passion for our craft. We believe bringing in team members that help foster creativity, contribute to deep collaboration, and provide diversity of thought will result in building one of nightlife’s most innovative organizations in an industry that has been neglected for far too long. We are so excited about what we will achieve together with the talent and passion each and every individual brings to our growing team.

About You

You are self-sufficient and adaptable. You have deep empathy for the people around you and those you design for. You believe that making a huge impact is done not by individuals, but by tight-knit teams that work hand-in-hand towards highly ambitious goals. Your ability to balance autonomy with collaboration makes you a vital part of shaping the company’s design process from the ground up.

Your design philosophy centers around creating high-quality, human-centered experiences. You have a passion for crafting visually stunning and delightful digital products. Still, you also understand the realities of a start-up—knowing when to prioritize quick value delivery while maintaining an uncompromising eye for detail. You care deeply about every pixel and believe that even the smallest elements, like micro-interactions and animations, can elevate a user’s experience. Your ability to balance quality with speed makes you a pivotal member of the team, and your passion for designing experiences that bring joy and delight to users will inspire those around you.

What You’ll Be Doing

As part of a newly established design team, you’re ready to take ownership and fill in the gaps without waiting for direction. As a Senior Product Designer, you'll be involved in all phases of product development, from ideation to final pixel tweaks. Using your expertise in product, interaction, and visual design, you’ll contribute across a range of tech products, shaping high-impact digital experiences from start to finish. 

  • Work together with Product Strategy, Research, and Engineers to ideate, inform, validate, QA, and ship designs  
  • Partner with Product Design to build and maintain a cohesive design and user experience
  • Ability to design cross-platform for apps and web, both mobile and desktop
  • Work to elevate LineLeap’s digital design language, design system, and custom UI elements 
  • See a project from ideation to development including concept ideation, information architecture, wireframes, final visual design, and handoff of detailed dev-ready functional and design annotations 
  • Solve complex design challenges across full product life cycles 
  • Maintain and update the design system, introducing new components and refining existing ones to align with evolving product needs
  • Establish clear guidelines and processes for the design system to ensure its effective use by the broader team
  • Present visual design concepts, and communicate design thinking and process frameworks
  • Prototype designs to showcase interactivity and for user testing
  • Design micro-animations and apply micro-interactions to appropriate Figma components

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Design, Experience Design, UI/UX design, or related field 
  • Looking for someone who has designed a consumer product or a part of one (This is required!) 
  • 5-10 years of relevant work experience in UI design, visual design, or product design preferably in tech, lifestyle, e-commerce or service-driven brands 
  • 3 years of experience working in a highly collaborative, cross-functional organization, including working with technical partners for design implementation
  • A strong portfolio with mobile app and/or web design samples that demonstrates a deep understanding of design principles and exceptional visual design skills
  • Articulate in communicating design thinking and rationale from a user-centric perspective  
  • Adept at using quantitative and qualitative research to transform insights into beautiful UX/UI
  • Interaction, motion design, and micro-animation savvy
  • Adept at bringing design flows to life with animation
  • Mastery of Figma and lover of design systems
  • For fun you read up on best practices and how they evolve with new technology 
  • Are a natural collaborator and strong communicator (written and verbal)
  • Thrives in ambiguity, adapts quickly to changes, manages time efficiently, and excels in fast-paced environments, sharing work early and frequently while inspiring peers and articulating design decisions effectively.

How We Hire

  • After reviewing your resume and portfolio, we will schedule a conversation to get to know each other, answer any questions you might have about the process, and assess a potential initial match.
  • That will be followed up with a video interview from our Product Designer that should last about an hour and another video interview with our CPO that should last about 30 minutes.
  • Depending on how that goes, we will invite you to our office in New York City to spend about 3 hours with several members of our product, technology, and executive team, followed by a team food outing. If the interview goes well, candidates typically receive an offer within 24-48 hours.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Base salary of $140K to $180K, depending on experience
  • Competitive stock option package, depending on experience
  • Health insurance stipend
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Hybrid remote work environment
  • We are based in New York City and generally expect you to be in at least 3 days a week in our office in the Flatiron neighborhood. We have also been flexible with remote work for those who are visiting family and traveling.
  • We are not prioritizing fully remote candidates at this time.

You Do You

  • LineLeap is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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