Senior Product Designer

We’re a remote-first team but are only hiring in Ontario, Canada right now. Please do not apply unless you are authorized to work in Canada.

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To date, our Co-founder / Co-CEO has led our design team. However, as her workload increases across product, marketing, and growth, she's increasingly finding herself as the bottleneck for design decisions. As such, we're looking for a system-minded, detail-oriented, puzzle-game-loving, multi-disciplinary designer with the potential and ambition to one day lead our entire design practice.

Also hiring a (not-senior) product designer with a big appetite to learn here.

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About VGen

Human-made art for people who love the internet ( NO AI / NFTs)

Through our no-AI digital art marketplace, we help 100,000+ freelance creatives from all over the world earn more easily on the internet while helping clients find the artists they want to commission and shop from.

Starting with the VTuber and livestreaming markets, we're growing quickly and are looking to expand the team to better serve our global community of creatives and creators.

Our site (6M monthly visits) → VGen.co

Twitter / X (117K) → X.com/_VGen_

IG (120K) → Instagram.com/vgen.co

Discord (118K) → Discord.gg/VGenCommunity

Join us on our mission to create an art-powered digital world where human creativity thrives!

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About The Team

Being a global prosumer art marketplace founded by artists and designers, we're design-led in nature and have a deep focus on not only intuitive and functional UX, but delightful and fun UI across everything we do.

Being an internet community built by internet natives, we love internet culture and strive to protect human creativity through embracing human-only spaces reminiscent of the early 2000s internet with modern specs.

Being an intentionally small, profitable indie company, we strongly believe in craft, ownership, the Pareto Principle, and the joy of creation. We measure our success by the value we deliver to our artists, community, and team - not in headcount and fundraising.

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About The Role

As a Senior Product Designer at VGen, you’ll be a core member of our design team and will work directly under our Co-founder / Co-CEO.

Some days, you'll be focused on creating intuitive, fun, and user-centered desktop and mobile product designs to make meaningful impacts on the lives of our artists and users, and other days, you'll be maintaining the integrity and scalability of our design systems for our designers and devs. If you'd like, you'll also have the opportunity to contribute to artistic / graphics / merch / multi-media marketing projects as they come up.

You’ll collaborate closely with other designers, product managers, engineers, and users and have the opportunity to see your projects evolve from research, design, dev hand-off, all the way to testing, launch, and being showered with love from the community.

Hopefully within a year or two, if you're up for it and once you've gained a deep enough understanding of the full breadth of our platform and all the different products that come together to shape VGen's art-powered world, you'll be ready to take over leading our design team moving forward.

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Who you are

• 5+ years of experience in UI / UX or product design, preferably in marketplace or consumer-facing platforms
• Portfolio that showcases your strong product intuition, deep user empathy, and keen eye for pixels and details
• Loves Figma and well-nested components
• Notices patterns in everything
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, remote-first environment
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• University degree or college diploma in a relevant program
  
  

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Nice-to-haves

• Enjoy watching anime / VTubers / streamers / internet culture
• Loves puzzles and strategy games
• Hates products that require how-to guides
• Familiarity with digital art communities, freelancing, and / or experience working with creative professionals
• Can distinguish generative AI from human-made art
• Proficiency in other creative tools (ie PSD / Illustrator / AE)
• Casual but effective copywriting
• Prefer Discord over Slack
• Previous experience working in a startup environment
  
  

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What we offer

• Competitive compensation + benefits
• Remote-first position with lots of flexibility and autonomy
• Optional downtown Toronto office (we're still remote-first - but come in regularly to claim your desk)
• Quarterly team meetups in Toronto (travel expenses covered if based in Ontario)
• Regular team games nights (League lol, Minecraft, Catan, etc)
• No BS culture: speak freely, minimal meetings, trust, and transparency
• Opportunity to learn and grow at a boundless pace