Product Designer
Playboy, part of parent company PLBY Group, is the iconic global lifestyle brand that celebrates creative freedom, artistic expression, sexual empowerment and pleasure for all. The company’s core products today are its premium digital creator platform – an exclusive and safe paywall creator platform for the world’s most creative, daring, sexy, fun and thoughtfully rebellious creators, and its global merchandising business. Playboy’s sister company, Honey Birdette, is a rapidly growing luxury lingerie and sexual wellness brand with retail outlets across the US, Australia and Europe.
Building upon Playboy’s long history advocating for personal freedoms, the company has renewed its commitment to women’s empowerment, inclusion and social advocacy integrated into its internal people practices and how it uses its platforms and reach to advance social change.
Who We Seek:
We are searching for a Product Designer passionate about crafting exceptional digital experiences. Join our team and contribute directly to the evolution and success of Playboy's digital ecosystem. Your role will involve a blend of creative intuition, collaboration, and a data-driven approach to understand user needs and challenges.
What You’ll Do - Job Responsibilities:
Lead Design Initiatives: Champion the design of innovative features for Playboy’s creator platform, encompassing messaging, profile interfaces, content posting, purchasing flows, and more.
Enhance User Discovery: Devise intelligent discovery features, refining creator tools, and optimizing both creator onboarding and fan-focused communications.
Adherence & Efficiency: Follow and occasionally refine product process guidelines, ensuring smooth and productive workflows.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Engage with product management, engineering, and other departments to ensure design visions are realized and seamlessly integrated into the product lifecycle.
Iterative Design: Utilize user feedback, analytics, and research insights to continuously refine and evolve design solutions.
Brand Consistency: Ensure all design outputs resonate with brand identity, maintaining aesthetic excellence
What You’ll Bring - Qualifications and Skills:
Experience: 2-5 years in product design, having contributed to several successful product launches.
Problem Solver: Demonstrated ability to tackle complex design challenges, coupled with efficient time management.
Communicator: Strong articulation skills, with an ability to present ideas convincingly to a varied audience.
User-Centric: Profound understanding of user research methodologies, usability testing, and information architecture principles.
Design Expertise: Mastery of Figma and Adobe Suite. A keen eye for aesthetics in line with current design trends.
Dynamic Workflow: Ability to balance multiple projects, adapting to priorities in a high-velocity environment.
Professional Development: Outstanding organizational skills, with a knack for compelling presentations.
Must have unrestricted access to work in the U.S.
The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be $100k-$120k annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
What We Offer:
Competitive salary
Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance for you and your family
Generous paid parental leave
401k+ matching
Flexible Time Away
Professional growth opportunities
Job Conditions
Candidates understand that PLBY Group’s brands are focused on creative freedom, artistic expression, and sex positivity. As a result, you understand that the business concept is based partly on sex appeal, nudity, and/or sexual wellness products.
Candidates also acknowledge and understand that before accepting employment with the Company, they have been advised that they may be exposed to: individuals in sexy and/or sexually provocative clothing, either in person or in photographs or videos; lewd and/or obscene language; depictions of lewd, risqué, intimate or explicit acts or behaviors; conversations and discussions about sex, sexuality and the human anatomy; conversations and discussions where vulgar language may be used, and where sexual jokes and innuendo may be expressed in their presence (collectively the “Conduct”).
Candidates acknowledge that they do not find the job duties or work environment as described to them above to be offensive, intimidating, hostile or unwelcome. However, they acknowledge and understand that nothing herein shall prevent them from notifying the Company if they are exposed to conduct of any type, including the Conduct described herein, with which they feel uncomfortable, and that if at any time they are exposed to conduct they find offensive and/or that makes them feel uncomfortable while they are performing their job duties, they agree to immediately contact a manager or People Ops.
Equal Employment Opportunity
This job description has been approved by the Company. Please note this job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature, level, and expectation of the work to be performed. It is not designed to cover a complete list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties and responsibilities or activities associated with this position, as they may change at any time, with or without notice.
PLBY Group is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, training and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, and make all employment decisions without regard to any protected status. The right talent for us innately embodies our values. Come as you are.
