Product Designer (Partnerships and Brand Experience)

• We’re looking for a Product Designer with excellent prototyping, motion, and brand/visual design skills to join our Partnerships team and to support how Thumbtack’s brand system shows up across the product
• This role sits at the intersection of go-to-market design and in-product brand experience: you’ll pair product design sensibility with storytelling, prototyping, and polish to accelerate partnerships and go-to-market efforts, while also helping translate brand system updates — iconography, motion language, moments of delight — into consistent, high-craft product experiences beyond Partnerships alone. You’ll work closely with Business Development, Sales, Go-to-Market Operations, Product, and Brand teams
• This is a product design role with a twist: you’ll spend more of your time than most roles in visualizing new experiences, prototyping, animation, and production design — creating interactive demos and motion-rich experiences for partners, and elevating motion and brand craft in live product surfaces
• Lead a significant portion of our product experience and be accountable for business outcomes
• Conduct user research and lightweight tests to scope and prioritize product initiatives
• Transform a vague, ambitious idea into a compelling business and product case, secure resources, and lead execution with clear success criteria
• Champion deep learnings and insights as a core metric, valuing them alongside traditional metrics to fuel smarter, more innovative product decisions
• Partner with marketing, engineers, designers, data and applied scientists to ideate, prioritize and deliver great solutions for our customers and professionals
• Coordinate within your team and among teams at Thumbtack to ensure understanding of and alignment around projects
• Drive a high-impact initiative from seed to scale, ensuring sustained focus by thoughtfully sunsetting or culling initiatives that do not meet success criteria

Benefits

• Parental leave
• Health insurance
• Community matters | Sure, our ways of connecting have changed. But we haven’t missed a beat, from virtual concerts to “TTversary” celebrations to weekly catch-ups
• Always be improving | We bring out the best in our colleagues — and our product — by pushing each beyond what we believe we’re capable of. We give honest feedback, even when it’s hard
• Wellness is a way of life | We promote balance with generous PTO and company-wide holidays — and find our centers every Wellness Wednesday with yoga featuring a Thumbtack pro
• A worthy mission | In a world where tech is often seen as eroding good jobs, we’re helping small business owners thrive. Our product makes entrepreneurship accessible to everyone
• Driven by our values | Our values are the compass by which we make all our decisions. Each one matters: Lead with why, Make it count, Own it, Choose teamwork, and Say what you mean
• Plus, amazing benefits | All the benefits you’d expect, plus a few more: generous parental and fertility benefits, $1800 for Thumbtack services per year and a $1200 remote work stipend
• Virtual-first working model coupled with quarterly in-person events and Camp Thumbtack
• 20+ company-wide holidays including two week-long shutdowns
• Libraries (collaborative workspaces) in San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Toronto, and Manila
• Cell phone and WiFi reimbursements
• Subscriptions and Employee Assistance Program for mental health and well-being- A blend of agency and in-house product design experience, supported by a strong portfolio
• 3–5 years of product design experience
• Understanding of technical feasibility and ability to collaborate effectively with engineering partners
• Experience translating brand systems into product experiences through motion, iconography, and UI polish
• Experience creating polished micro-interactions, transitions, and animations, with strong attention to craft, timing, and detail
• Strong communication and visual storytelling skills to align cross-functional stakeholders
• Advanced Figma prototyping skills, from low-fidelity flows to high-fidelity experiences with motion and interaction