Product Designer

We are a remote-first, office-optional team. You are invited to do the best work of your life from anywhere within the USA.

At Animoto, we have always believed video is the most powerful form of communication. We make best-in-class, easy-to-use web and mobile video creation apps, with pre-built narrative templates and stunning video styles, that help our customers customize their own engaging videos to share on social media and beyond.

We are looking for a Product Designer to help lead the design of our online video creation tools. You will work with a cross-functional team to ship elegant and thoughtful design solutions that help our users create best-in-class videos.

What you’ll do:

Develop and maintain a vision of the experience we should provide our users to help them create powerful, professional video
Work closely with a product manager and engineering lead to continuously refine our understanding of customer problems in order to build our roadmap.
Work with a UX researcher to unpack complex user issues while building a deeper understanding of our customers
Create journey maps, user flows, and other documents to guide UX strategy
Create wireframes, prototypes, and other design artifacts as needed to effectively communicate specific features and behaviors
Present designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and stakeholders and guide the collection, synthesis and integration of feedback

What we’re looking for:

2-4 years of hands-on product design experience preferably in a product companyBachelor's degree in Product Design, Industrial Design, Graphic Design or similar
Experience working in an Agile environment with product managers and engineers
Strong portfolio including at least one tool with complex interactions that make a creative task easy for non-pros
Experience conducting research and applying insights to your designs
Fluency in relevant, modern design tools and design systems (we currently use Figma and Miro)
Someone who actively balances technical constraints, business requirements, and marketing considerations while optimizing for the user experience
Someone who’s active with video—creating or consuming it—and can speak to what it takes to make a good video

Bonus points:

Experience designing tools for online collaboration
Experience using a complex, professional tool to create videos, motion graphics, 3d graphics, or something similarly creative
Experience designing highly interactive UIs
Experience applying design thinking to problems outside of product design

What We Offer:

An opportunity to engage with a community of hard-working, fun-loving, and interesting colleagues, creating incredible products and supporting our customers the world over
“Work from anywhere” as a part of our fully-distributed workforce
Exceptional medical, dental, and vision benefits; fully-paid premiums for you and your dependents on our most popular plan
Participation in Animoto’s 401(k) plan + company match
Accrued PTO from Day 1, with a culture of taking time off to relax and rejuvenate; “Summer Fridays” for a bit more time to spend doing the things you love outside of work
Allocated budget to help set up your home office with all the ergonomic essentials
An annual “Subscriptions Perk” to help subsidize the costs of the SaaS providers you use most (Spotify, Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Peloton, to name a few)
“Focus Fridays” to provide you with uninterrupted time during the work week to execute on your most important directives
Weekly employee “Demos” and regular company “gatherings”, encouraging collaboration, engagement, and even some laughter across time zones
THE opportunity of a lifetime to learn, grow, and challenge yourself to do the best work of your life

At Animoto, we help our customers communicate who they are, what they do, and what they love through video. Our users come from all walks of life and are connected by their desire to use video to share what matters most to them. We’re proud to help them share these passions.

We embrace the differences of our team members and seek diversity of beliefs, backgrounds, education, and all the other things that make us unique. It is our inherent belief that diverse teams build better products. We aim to create a space where employees can bring their true selves to work every day. Animoto is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We welcome you to be a part of it.

Please note that we are not currently sponsoring visas.