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Today we are starting a search for a Staff Product Designer to join Medium— a role that we need to help us solve some of the hardest, most ambitious parts of our company vision, mission, and strategy.
Bringing on a new designer onto a small team brings both risk and opportunity. A design team is more than the sum of its parts. A product is more than the sum of its parts. At this stage of your design career, so are you. As someone who leads through craft, you are entrusted to make every part of the product—and every person around you—better.
What’s more, designing for Medium carries a legacy of setting and upholding an unmistakably high bar for design quality in service of reading and writing. We achieve that not just through skill and taste, but by treasuring long-form reading in our personal lives and maintaining writing practices of our own.
I took a good long time to write this job description not because we’re a reading and writing company, but because I want the next person who joins our team, and anyone who invests their time and craft in our process, to know the following:
Does this sound like you? If you’re on here reading this, that’s a good start. Check out the rest of the job description below. If you dig it, please apply. The Medium is the message, and we’d like to hear your voice.
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Medium is one of the world’s most influential writing platforms, connecting millions of readers with ideas that matter. We’re a small, dedicated team that cares deeply and takes real ownership of the problems we tackle, moving fast while building something that lasts. Our actions and decision-making are guided by four principles: Humans First, Deepen Understanding, Orient for Impact, and Ladder Together.
Design is a vital discipline at Medium. We have a long, visible history of raising the design bar for reading and writing on the internet. We continue to believe that by radically redefining the experience of reading and writing online, we foster humans-first spaces that showcase individual voices and stories.
Today, Medium is a profitable and independently-funded company. This has enabled us to embark on a new era that requires us to think big and explore uncharted territory. If you want to join and shape the future of reading and writing with urgency, care, and play, come help us build what’s next!
At Medium, designers and engineers work across the full range of the product development process. We’re looking for someone who lives and breathes reading and writing, not just someone who’s designed a lot of software. As a Staff Product Designer on the team, you’ll report to the Director of Product Design and work on multiple projects from ideation to launch.
As part of a product team, you’ll orient your work towards high-impact opportunities. You’ll execute on product strategy by pitching what gets built, shaping its scope, and planning how it gets done. You will own and create high-quality design work that transforms those priorities into simple, intuitive solutions that you ship alongside your team.
As a member of the design organization, you’ll collaborate with engineering to uphold a quality bar with your design instincts, visual design sensibility, attention to detail, and taste. With your design teammates, you are someone who welcomes feedback, isn’t precious about your work, and elevates everyone’s impact through collaboration.
As a Median, you’ll be someone who embodies our operating principles and demonstrates empathy and resilience. You’ll demonstrate empathy for our users, to build a platform and products they’ll love. As a teammate, you’ll demonstrate empathy for your coworkers, to contribute to a workplace we love, and the resilience to be able to take feedback from anywhere, consider it gracefully, and fold it into your thinking and work.
We go through the same interview steps for all Product Design candidates to instill equity in our hiring process. Our process is designed to learn as much about each candidate, as well as to give candidates a way to learn about what it’s like to work at Medium. Topics will range from previous work experiences, problem-solving, and collaboration approaches, to technical skills.
In addition to the new experiences you’ll pick up, here’s what else you’ll enjoy by working at Medium:
At Medium, inclusion, diversity, and equity are core to how we work and what we build. We believe a more inclusive team creates a better product — one that’s intuitive, thoughtful, and serves a wide range of users. We strive to foster a supportive, fun, and challenging environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive.
We welcome applicants from all walks of life and strongly encourage those from historically underrepresented groups to apply. Our hiring process is built to ensure fairness and equal opportunity for everyone. Even if your experience doesn’t match every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you — your perspective and passion matter more than checking every box. We actively track representation across our hiring pipelines and hold ourselves accountable to building inclusively.
Learn more about our mission, operating principles, and culture:
Read about our story here.
Read our guidance on AI use for candidates. We believe human ideas have the power to change how people think, for the better. That belief shapes how we hire. We use AI tools ourselves, but we’ve thought carefully about where it adds value and where it gets in the way of something important.
Apply directly on Greenhouse 👉 here.
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