Senior Product Designer

Our Mission

Prose is truly custom hair and skin care made-to-order—just for you. Our line of custom products are made by an in-house, Paris-based R&D team of gifted chemists who combine natural ingredients in innovative ways alongside dermatologists, giving consumers clean skin care, hair care and impeccable results. 

At the heart of Prose’s success is Singular, its proprietary AI-powered beauty-tech platform, which has revolutionized personalized beauty at scale. Marrying a technology-driven approach with an apothecary-style concept, all Prose hair and skin care products are personalized to your one-of-a-kind hair, skin, goals and environment.

We’re a company that wants to change beauty practices, so we’re changing the way beauty companies practice. As a certified B Corporation, a Public Benefit Corporation and Climate Neutral, we’re proving that good business is always sustainable. With Prose, there’s nothing sacrificed to bring you great products—not trees, materials, wages, or performance. 

Prose & Singular in Numbers

• Founded in 2017, with hubs in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles
• 10M+ consultations completed
• 2M customers and 350K active subscribers
• 21M custom products made, with 1M+ unique formulas
• 350+ team members across disciplines
• $600M+ in lifetime sales, with $165M+ revenue in 2024
• Profitable since 2024

Discover our Company Culture on Welcome to the Jungle here

Discover our Company Mission & Vision in video here

 

Position Summary

We are seeking a skilled and nimble Senior Product Designer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for identifying and solving user problems, an eye for refined design, and a strong interest in building and maintaining design systems. You should possess expertise in product strategy development, be a flexible self-starter, have the ability to embrace a fast pace, and thrive within ambiguity. 

In this role, you will lead the development, execution, and delivery of a range of digital products and experiences. You will leverage your skills in conceptual thinking, product strategy, and data insights to solve complex business challenges.  Working alongside growth, product, and engineering teams, you will uphold brand consistency, ensure user satisfaction, and create a smooth, cohesive end-to-end customer journey. Your designs will not only meet user needs but also reflect and enhance our unique brand identity, crafting visually compelling and emotionally engaging experiences that resonate with our audience.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the design direction for key product areas, ensuring alignment with business goals and tracking measurable improvements in user engagement and business metrics.
• Champion a fast, iterative design process, rapidly prototyping and testing ideas to quickly bring value to customers while continuously refining the product based on data and feedback
• Maintain and evolve our design system and design library to ensure consistency across the product and brand while driving design innovation
• Collaborate with the user research and data teams to identify user issues, conduct usability testing, and ensure that design solutions are rooted in real user needs
• Work both autonomously and collaboratively to conceptualize and test new digital product initiatives
• Demonstrate organization, flexibility, efficient time management, and the ability to prioritize workload

Key Qualifications

• 6+ years professional design experience, with a strong preference for experience in an e-commerce or digital product environment
• Experience working independently to explore solutions from concepts to execution
• Strong cross-collaboration skills and capabilities
• Proven ability to lead by influence with finely honed attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to design simple and elegant solutions to complex user problems
• An eye for high-quality, well-crafted visual and interaction design, and a passion for UI details and UX best practices
• Ability to take and give feedback in a timely and professional manner
• Basic knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a plus, but not required

Perks & Benefits

 

In the New York Area, the anticipated base salary range for this role is $145,000 to $155,000 annually (+10% discretionary bonus and equity). Actual compensation will be commensurate with experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skills.  This role will be a hybrid position based out of our Williamsburg office and the expectation is that this person will be in the office 3 days per week. 

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Prose Values

Intentional Inclusivity

• We know the best ideas come from open minds and willingness to listen. While our products cater to the individual, an invitation into our process is always open to our community. 
• We value our differences and diverse backgrounds by communicating openly, managing with transparency and striving to understand one another’s perspective. It’s a key ingredient to our innovation.

Connected Collaboration

• Our strength as a group will outlast our efforts as individual contributors. With offices across countries, staying inventive and agile deepens our clear vision and consistent communication. 
• We stay in a spirit of entrepreneurial collaboration: We do not have consensus at all times, but we trust one another to work toward our common goals. Our success is an expression and result of our progressive and gratifying teamwork.

Driven, Together

• We value ownership and coaching that encourages employees to think constructively and creatively about the business. We view employees as leaders and individuals who are accountable, resourceful and responsible. Anyone and everyone is encouraged to lead. 
• We recognize that in order to continue thinking one step ahead, we will need to try new things. We strive to provide an open environment that accepts this truth, making space for new ideas to emerge. 

Humanity Always

• We assume good intentions in every interaction, keeping ourselves accountable for the climate we create. We seek to understand our co-workers through this lens of conscious benevolence, authenticity and fellowship.
• We operate with the intention of preserving resources, creating an environment we can all live in – for our business and the world. Sustainable care is essential to our ethos as an organization. We take a mindful approach to how we think about our people (employees) and our planet.