Senior Product Designer

About VSCO

VSCO (pronounced vis–co) is a platform that equips photographers with the tools, community, and exposure they need to expand creatively and professionally. VSCO maintains a rich and authentic creative environment that serves photographers at all levels – preserving a home for creative opportunity, inspiration, and connection. Our mission is to champion photographers so they can make it. We empower photographers to connect with other creatives and businesses with our suite of creative tools that spans from mobile to desktop and across our global community. 

We are looking for people who are driven and demonstrate initiative in taking our company mission to the next level. Employees here have the opportunity to make a big impact, and believe that when we build together, we achieve stronger outcomes than we could alone. 

Our values are critical pillars to our team culture and shape the way we hire. Read more about what you can expect when working at VSCO on our Careers Page. 

About The Role

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer who works as both a product and systems designer. You'll develop and extend our design systems across platforms, build cross-product workflows, and design AI tooling and interfaces as core product work, not an afterthought.

This role sits at the intersection of systems and product. You'll bring an AI-first approach to how you design, build, and collaborate, and help define what that looks like for the team.

This is a small, fast-moving team. We ship, iterate, and figure things out as we go. The right person asks questions before committing, leans into problems, and moves fast without sacrificing craft.

The Day to Day

• Own our design system (VUI)I: keep the system clean, well-tokenized, and structured so designers can build in Cursor with confidence. Use AI tooling to audit and improve it continuously.
• Define transition animations and interaction patterns. Prototype at a fidelity engineers can build from without guessing.
• Design cross-product platform experiences across search, growth entry points, and end-to-end journeys between products.
• Contribute to product-led growth across the funnel: onboarding, activation, and retention. Run experiments and iterate on results.
• Design and prototype ai powered tools like Cursor and Claude using it to audit and scale the design system quickly. Model this workflow for the team.
• Partner with engineering to keep design intent and implementation tightly aligned.

Qualifications

Required:

• 5+ years designing and shipping digital products end to end, concept through delivery.
• Experience designing for mobile (iOS/Android) and responsive web. Mobile-first is a must.
• AI-native workflow: you use AI tools as a core part of how you design and prototype, and you understand that system quality is what makes that work.
• Experience owning or contributing to a design system at scale: tokenization, component architecture, keeping it healthy over time.
• Exceptionally high craft bar: polished, precise, and intentional. You raise the standard for the people around you.
• Strong command of transition animations and prototyping: you design motion with purpose and produce prototypes engineers can build from.
• Experience with cross-product or platform-level design: you hold context across surfaces and design for coherence at scale.
• Experience running experiments: comfortable in an A/B testing environment, using results to inform decisions without losing craft.
• Bias toward speed and execution: you move fast, make calls with incomplete information, and don't need a perfect brief to ship.
• Deep systems thinking: you see the whole before the parts and design patterns that don't create downstream problems.
• Leans in and asks questions: you push for clarity before committing, not after.
• A portfolio with high craft and evidence of how you think, not just what you shipped.
• Strong collaborator: you align teams through a clear point of view, not just charisma.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with growth design, including activation flows, upgrade moments, conversion surfaces, or product-led growth patterns
• Experience designing for creative tools, photography products, or creative communities
• Familiarity with design token architecture and cross-platform theming
• Affinity for VSCO’s mission and the photographers we serve

Job Perks

• Job Perks

  • Hybrid work with an office in San Francisco, CA
  • Regular in-person events events to connect and collaborate
  • Competitive salary & equity 
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and families
  • Flexible Time Off
  • Company-paid parental, medical and caregiver leave
  • Other perks including mental health resources and tech reimbursements

Compensation

The base salary for this position will vary based on several factors, such as relevant experience, location and your approved internal leveling assessed during the interview process. The base salary range for this role is $190,000 - $205,000. Salary is one component of our total compensation package. This position also qualifies for equity (i.e. stock options) and is eligible for discretionary bonuses based on performance. 

The benefits available for this position include flexible time off, a 401K retirement plan, insurance (medical, dental, vision, life/AD&D, short and long term disability), and 11 paid holidays. We also provide paid sick time as required by state and local law. Additional benefits and perks contained in our standard employee benefits package are also offered for this position.

Please note: 

The application window for this role will be open until at least 6/29/2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

As part of our hiring process, we conduct pre-employment background checks in compliance with federal, state, and local laws. Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of this background check, which includes state and federal criminal records checks, sex offender registry searches, and other relevant checks as permitted by law. 

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