Senior Mobile Product Designer
Timeleft
WorldwideremotePosted 15 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- 5+ years of mobile consumer product design experience required.
- Must be proficient in Figma and modern prototyping tools.
- Role offers the most senior design seat at the table, working directly with product, engineering, and founders.
- Opportunity to shape a consumer product used in 52 countries with real‑world impact.
- Ability to use AI‑powered design tools to accelerate workflow.
- Small, fast team with high ownership and short distance from idea to user.
Role overview
Timeleft is a fast‑growing social app that connects strangers in real‑world gatherings across 52 countries. The company is seeking a Senior Product Designer to own end‑to‑end design for its mobile app, web surfaces, back‑office tools, and design system, partnering directly with the VP of Product and Product Managers as the most senior design voice without a design manager.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to‑end design across our mobile app, web, back office, and design system — translating product goals and user insights into thoughtful, high‑quality UX.
- Lead design discovery and execution across the full process — from concept exploration and prototyping to detailed interaction and visual design — with a strong bias toward learning and iteration.
- Partner closely with product managers and engineers to define problems, explore opportunities, and deliver solutions that balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
- Apply systems thinking to keep our work consistent and scalable, and evolve the design system as we grow.
- Communicate design rationale clearly and confidently, using storytelling and data to build alignment and move teams forward with purpose.
- Collaborate cross‑functionally, take ownership of your work, and adapt plans with an agile mindset as priorities evolve.
- Use AI‑powered design tools to accelerate exploration, prototype ideas, and synthesize insights, while applying human judgment and care to final decisions.
Requirements
- 5+ years designing mobile consumer products, with a portfolio that shows end‑to‑end ownership and thoughtful problem‑solving across mobile‑first experiences.
- Strong interaction and visual design. Knows when to polish and when to ship.
- Proficiency in Figma and modern prototyping tools, and comfort working across multiple levels of fidelity — from early concepts to polished, production‑ready designs.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with product managers and engineers, taking ownership while working toward shared outcomes.
- Experience using AI tools to support design workflows and ideation, with curiosity about how AI can responsibly enhance product design.
- A clear, empathetic communicator who can give and receive feedback constructively and contribute to a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
- Background in social, dating, community, or marketplace consumer products.
Benefits
- The most senior design seat at the table. Own your projects end to end, working directly with product, engineering, and the founders.
- A consumer product with real‑world impact. You're shaping an IRL product that connects thousands of people in real life — your design decisions show up in actual conversations between people who’d never have met otherwise.
- Build the foundations. Help grow our design system and raise the quality bar as we scale.
- A small, fast team. High ownership. Short distance between an idea and a real user trying it.
Additional details
- Timeleft is a social app that brings strangers together. We match people into groups of 6 and send them to restaurants, cafés, and bars for dinners, drinks, coffees, and runs.
- Every week, 150,000+ people go on Timeleft events across 200+ cities in 52 countries.
- We're 100 employees and growing fast.
- Behind that moment is a product that has to do something rare on the internet: ask people to show up somewhere new with five people they've never met. From the first booking to the brave hello at the table, design is what helps people through the flow — from a screen into a room full of strangers.
- This is the right job if you want craft, scope, and direct influence on a consumer product used in 52 countries. It's the wrong job if you want a design leader above you to set direction.
- Not a design management role. This is senior IC. If you want to manage designers as your day job, this isn’t the right one.
- Not a brand or marketing design role. You'll design product, not campaigns or brand assets.
- Not a role where you wait for direction. No design leader above you means you'll spot what needs doing and drive it forward with the team.
- Recruitment process: Introduction Interview (30min): A conversation with Talent Acquisition Manager to discuss your experience, career goals, and how they align with our mission at Timeleft.
- Skills Assessment (45min): An interview with our Product Managers about how you work, how well you balance between business needs and users feedback and mutual fit.
- Final interview (45min‑60min): An interview with VP Product to discuss your past projects and challenge your business vision during a short live case.
- Originally posted on Himalayas.