Staff Product Designer, Discovery

Thrive Market is an online, membership-based market focused on making healthy and sustainable living easy and affordable. The Staff Product Designer will own search and browse design end to end, including information architecture, taxonomy, relevance, personalization, and filtering experiences. The role partners with cross-functional teams, leads key initiatives, advocates for inclusive design, evolves the design system, and mentors other designers.

Responsibilities:

• Own information architecture and taxonomy decisions for search and browse, including category structure, filtering and faceting logic, and sort and ranking behavior
• Design for search relevance, including zero and low result states
• Partner with data and ML teams on search ranking and personalization signals, translating model behavior into a coherent, explainable member experience
• Lead end-to-end design efforts across key initiatives, from discovery through execution
• Collaborate with product designers, product managers, engineers, data analysts, and data scientists to design intuitive and trustworthy member experiences
• Align with Product Managers and Engineers on goals, constraints, and feasibility
• Advocate for accessibility and inclusive design across products
• Contribute to and evolve the design system, collaborating with the design system owner as needed, to keep it consistent and scalable
• Mentor other designers with feedback and guidance that supports the whole team
• Design filter and facet UX that scales as catalog size and attribute complexity grow

Requirements:

• 6+ years of product design or UX/UI experience, with demonstrated ownership of end-to-end initiatives at a senior to staff level
• A portfolio that demonstrates strong user-centered design, interaction design, and visual design skills
• Hands-on expertise in Figma and other industry standard design tools
• Experience applying user research methods and A/B testing to inform data driven design decisions
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate design rationale to cross-functional partners
• Background working in e-commerce, subscription-based businesses, or consumer-facing digital products