Lead Product Designer

The role

You will design features and experiences for a strategic pillar of the product. You will work with research, engineering, product, and customer service teams to shape the product and craft flows for retailers and maker brands.

What you will do

• Define direction by influencing what to build based on customer understanding and business context
• Lead end-to-end design from discovery and prototyping to execution and production
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and data teams
• Tell stories that connect design vision to business and customer impact
• Push the design system forward by evolving patterns, motion, and visual language
• Prototype using modern tools to explore ideas and test assumptions
• Elevate other designers by sharing craft, process, and storytelling

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience designing digital products and systems
• Attention to detail and high quality visual, UX, systems design, and content design
• Expertise in interaction design, visual craft, and systems thinking
• Ability to connect design direction to business and customer outcomes
• Comfort exploring and experimenting with new tools and workflows for rapid prototyping and AI-integrated design
• A portfolio that demonstrates visionary product thinking, strong craft, and clear communication of impact
• Experience contributing to and evolving large-scale design systems
• A passion for collaboration and driving a culture of excellence in design

Nice to have

• A sense of humor
• First-hand experience and empathy for the small business and entrepreneurial journey as a maker or retailer

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Company-wide recharge days
• Paid parental leave up to 16 weeks
• Comprehensive health coverage
• Fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot, including a lifetime reimbursement allowance
• Mental health support and coaching through Modern Health
• Stipends to support professional development, wellness, and work from home needs
• Employer-sponsored retirement plan

About the company

Faire is a technology wholesale platform that uses tech, data, and machine learning to connect independent retailers with maker brands. The company was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square.