Staff Product Designer

About the Position

We are looking for a Staff Product Designer to join our team at Faire, a technology wholesale platform that connects independent retailers with the best products from around the world. As a Staff Product Designer, you will play a central role in creating beautiful, intuitive experiences for our customers, designing for thousands of independent retailers and maker brands growing their businesses in our marketplace.

About Faire

Faire is a company invested in the importance of design. We believe in the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect a thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Our mission is to help local businesses grow and local communities thrive by providing the right tools and insights.

Responsibilities

• Define the vision by proactively identifying gaps and influencing roadmap prioritization.
• Lead end-to-end design from deep discovery and rapid prototyping through polished execution and production.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and data teams to explore new paradigms.
• Tell powerful stories that connect design vision to tangible business and customer impact, inspiring alignment across teams and leadership.
• Push Faire’s design system forward through the lens of your work-evolving patterns, motion, and visual language that scale across the platform.
• Prototype fearlessly using modern tools to explore new ideas, test assumptions, and accelerate innovation.
• Mentor and elevate other designers-sharing your craft, process, and storytelling approach to raise the bar across the org.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing complex, high-impact digital products.
• Deep expertise in interaction design, visual craft, and systems thinking.
• Proven ability to lead with vision-influencing strategy and aligning cross-functional partners through compelling storytelling.
• Strong ability to connect design direction to business and customer outcomes.
• Comfort exploring and experimenting with new tools and workflows for rapid prototyping and AI-integrated design.
• A portfolio that demonstrates visionary product thinking, strong craft, and clear communication of impact.
• Experience contributing to and evolving large-scale design systems.
• A passion for collaboration, mentoring, and driving a culture of excellence in design.
• And, ideally, a sense of humor!

We Offer

• Competitive salary range of $216,000 - $297,000 per year.
• Equity and comprehensive benefits.
• Hybrid work schedule with the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year.
• Move fast and own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe.
• Equipped to scale with the latest enterprise AI tools.
• Best in class team of sharp, kind, and generous colleagues.
• Real rewards including competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.
• Belonging in an environment where every Faire employee has equal access to opportunities, growth, and success.

About the Company

Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We’re backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener-Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Toronto, London, and New York.

Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.

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