Product Designer (Video) Job at Substack in San Francisco

Substack is building a new economic engine for culture, giving the brightest, most interesting and creative people on the internet the power of their own publishing platform. It empowers creators with financial autonomy, ownership and a direct connection to their communities. We are looking for a Product Designer with experience and interest in video. As creatives of many varieties — writers, cooks, musicians, journalists, and everyone else — increasingly make use of video formats, Substack has introduced Live video, video podcast features, and video support across many surfaces. An excellent candidate will have experience working on video products (e.g. players, production flows, editing interfaces, or the like) and/or on video itself, perhaps with a background in motion or animation design. This team tackles everything from “editing experiences” to “automatic LLM-based clip-making” to “captioning” to “formats” to “collaborative flows” to “watching experiences” and so on. Design at Substack: Experienced designers know that commercial and economic realities shape the possibility spaces of product strategy. If success for a company means “selling more ads,” designers may achieve a lovely user interface or ideal typography, but everything will be in service of producing the same strange, often-nightmarish dynamics we all know from the many scaled platforms of the past decade. Responsibilities Rapidly build context about disparate product areas, community dynamics, and industry norms in any domains, from print media to podcasting to online social systems Identify high-leverage opportunities for your team and help make their pursuit practicable through rigorous path-conception, batch-sizing, staging, and go to market planning Design beautiful, usable, scalable interfaces and flows for a wide range of product zones Think holistically about the second-order effects on Substack as a product system; balance user groups, weigh trade-offs, and pragmatically find solutions which achieve the best outcomes possible given various constraints Find ways to help creators and audiences build long-lasting, rewarding, and healthy relationships; empower audience members to become contributors and creators Help diversify the kinds of creators Substack supports, through novel media type support, alternative reader experiences, supporting outreach programs, and more Shape the culture and processes of Design at Substack Requirements All product design applications must link to or include a portfolio. 3 years of experience designing software; we’re especially keen to see experience with social networks; content networks; or content systems or products of various kinds; but any experience building software interfaces applies. High degree of competence with Figma. High tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity. Interest in both independence and collaboration. Preferences Technical abilities. While it’s not a requirement, we’ll be very excited to see candidates who can code. Living near our San Francisco HQ means being able to work directly with the CEO and our team in-office, so it’s preferred. Substack is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or transgender status), age, national origin, veteran or disability status. #J-18808-Ljbffr In Summary: Substack is building a new economic engine for culture, giving the brightest, most interesting and creative people the power of their own publishing platform . We are looking for a Product Designer with experience and interest in video . An excellent candidate will have experience working on video products (e.g. players, production flows, editing interfaces, or the like) En Español: Substack está construyendo un nuevo motor económico para la cultura, dando a las personas más brillantes, interesantes y creativas en Internet el poder de su propia plataforma de publicación. Empodera a los creadores con autonomía financiera, propiedad y una conexión directa con sus comunidades. Buscamos un Diseñador de Productos con experiencia e interés en video. Como creativos de muchas variedades escritores, cocineros, músicos, periodistas y todos los demás cada vez usan más los formatos de vídeo, substack ha introducido videos en vivo, funciones de vídeo y soporte de video en muchas superficies. Un excelente candidato tendrá experiencia trabajando en productos de video (por ejemplo reproductores, flujos de producción, interfaces de edición o similares) y/o en el propio video, tal vez con un trasfondo en diseño de movimiento o animación. Este equipo aborda todo lo que se refiere al desarrollo de sistemas de transmisión automático, pero muchos diseñadores conocen la posibilidad de obtener experiencias más dinámicas en todas las plataformas comerciales. Responsabilidades Construir rápidamente contexto sobre áreas de productos dispares, dinámicas comunitarias y normas industriales en cualquier dominio, desde los medios impresos hasta el podcasting a los sistemas sociales online Identificar oportunidades de alto apalancamiento para su equipo y ayudar a hacer que su búsqueda sea viable mediante una concepción rigurosa del camino, el tamaño de lote, la puesta en escena y la planificación del mercado Diseñar interfaces hermosas, utilizables, escalables y flujos para una amplia gama de zonas de producto Piense holisticamente acerca de los efectos de segundo orden en Substack como un sistema de productos; equilibrar grupos de usuarios, sopesar las compensaciones y encontrar pragmáticamente soluciones que logren los mejores resultados posibles dadas varias limitaciones Encontrar formas de ayudar a creadores y audiencias a construir relaciones duraderas, gratificantes y saludables; capacitar al público a convertirse en colaboradores y proveedores de substacks. Preferencias habilidades técnicas. Aunque no es un requisito, estaremos muy emocionados de ver candidatos que puedan codificar. Vivir cerca de nuestra sede central en San Francisco significa poder trabajar directamente con el CEO y nuestro equipo en la oficina, por lo que se prefiere. Substack es un empleador de igualdad de oportunidades. Todos los solicitantes serán considerados para empleo sin importar raza, color, religión, sexo (incluyendo embarazo, orientación sexual, identidad de género o estatus transgénero), edad, origen nacional, estado de veterano o discapacidad. #J-18808-Ljbffr