Senior Product Designer

About Backstage

Backstage is the largest talent marketplace for the entertainment industry, media, brand marketers, and other content creators, matching their creative projects with the best actors, voiceover artists, production crew, and other industry professionals. Employers around the world use our best-in-class technology to staff over 50,000 creative projects a year in film, television, commercials, branded content, theater, experiential marketing, and more.

The Role

We’re looking for a dynamic, ambitious Senior Product Designer who can connect the dots between user needs, design patterns, and business goals. You will be joining our team of five passionate product managers and designers who aim to make the world’s creator economy more accessible, inclusive, productive, and successful. Our culture values strong process, data, innovation, flexibility, humility, and collaboration. While we're open to strong applicants across the US, we have a strong preference for NYC-area candidates who are able to work from our Chelsea office three times a month.

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll be involved in every aspect of the product development process, from brainstorming the next innovative feature to creating high-fidelity designs for launch. You’ll leverage your full range of product design skills and knowledge to solve real problems for our diverse user base. We are rapidly growing our tech team and offerings, and this role presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to the design of new features, verticals, and audiences as we continue to expand.

The Senior Product Designer will report to Backstage’s Director of Product Design.

What You’ll Do:

• Partner with stakeholders across product management, engineering, marketing, data science, and customer support to collect feedback, understand user behaviors, and collaborate on new product features and solutions.
• Translate user and industry research into holistic design solutions that address user needs as well as business and brand goals.
• Create intuitive, user-centered designs—from wireframes, to prototypes, to beautiful, polished visuals.
• Utilize and evolve our design system to ensure consistency across the platform.

What we’re looking for from you:

• 5+ years designing impactful products for a large-scale, consumer-facing platform or two-sided marketplace; experience in the content creator/UGC hiring space is a huge plus.
• A solid portfolio showcasing your end-to-end design process, strategic product thinking, and UX/UI skills.
• High-level understanding of interaction design, visual design, and UX principles, for both web and iOS apps.
• Ability to deliver pixel-perfect, annotated design files ready for dev handoff.
• Flexible, proactive, autonomous, organized, and able to shift gears quickly in a fast-paced, remote environment.
• Excellent communication skills; you can articulate UX ideas and concepts clearly, thoroughly, and concisely to product and non-product people alike.
• Experience building and maintaining design system components.
• Solid understanding of information architecture and how to present the best path for users to navigate complex products and interfaces.
• Expert-level proficiency using Figma.
• Familiarity with using tools like Amplitude, Hotjar, and Maze to make data-driven decisions
• Experience using Jira and working within a kanban-based agile environment

TCS is the creative services division of Cast & Crew, a family of individually innovative companies modernizing the ways in which content is created. TCS' mission is to empower creative talent and streamline the content creation process for projects in film, television, commercials/branded content, social media, theater, music video, video games, and more. We provide solutions that manage the entire project lifecycle, including talent discovery and staffing, production, post production, and distribution. Our brands include Backstage, Coverfly, FilmFreeway, Final Draft, ShareGrid, and Voice123.