Staff Product Designer, Discovery

About Thrive Market

Thrive Market was founded in 2014 with a mission to make healthy and sustainable living easy and affordable for everyone. As an online, membership-based market, we deliver the highest quality healthy, and sustainable products at member-only prices, while matching every paid membership with a free one for someone in need. Every day, we leverage innovative technology and member-first thinking to help our over 1,700,000+ members find better products, support better brands, and build a better world in the process. We are also a Certified B Corporation, a Public Benefit Corporation, and a Climate Neutral Certified company.

Join us as we bring healthy and sustainable living to millions of Americans in the years to come.

THE ROLE

You'll join Thrive Market's Product Design team as a Staff Designer embedded in the Discovery Pod, owning search and browse end to end. You'll work alongside the existing design team, bringing strategic clarity to each initiative you own rather than just executing what's in front of you.

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

Qualifications

• 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.
• P5 Background working in e-commerce, subscription-based businesses, or consumer-facing digital products.

Belong To a Better Company

• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
• Competitive salary (DOE) + equity
• 401k plan
• 9 Observed Holidays
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Subsidized ClassPass Membership with access to fitness classes and wellness and beauty experiences
• Ability to work in our beautiful office in Playa Vista
• Free Thrive Market membership with exclusive employee discount
• Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform

We're a community of more than 1 Million + members who are united by a singular belief: It should be easy to find better products, support better brands, make better choices, and build a better world in the process.

At Thrive Market, we believe in building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic culture. If you are excited about this role along with our mission and values, we encourage you to apply.

_Thrive Market is an EEO/Veterans/Disabled/LGBTQ employer

__At Thrive Market, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workplace that is representative, at all job levels, of the members we serve and the communities we operate in. We’re proud to be an inclusive company and an Equal Opportunity Employer and we prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. If you’re thinking about joining our team, we expect that you would agree!

__Employment with Thrive Market requires that employees be based in the United States. This is a condition of employment and must be maintained throughout the duration of employment.

__If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please email us at eeo@thrivemarket.com and we’ll be happy to assist you.

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JOB INFORMATION

• Compensation may vary depending on several factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and geographic location.
• Total Compensation includes Base Salary, Stock Options, Health & Wellness Benefits, Flexible PTO, and more!
• This position requires traveling to our HQ office in Los Angeles, California, twice a year for all-company summits; once in the summer and once in the winter.