Sure Jake, Inc. is building a premium creator-economy focused platform that emphasizes discovery, community, and monetization. The Design Director – User Experience will own the product vision and lead the UX direction, working closely with the Founder and a Senior UX Designer to create a compelling and coherent user experience for a creator-first social platform.
Responsibilities:
- Define the north-star user experience for Sure Jake across mobile and web
- Shape the overall UX architecture of a creator-first social platform
- Ensure all features connect into a coherent, scalable system
- Establish the design principles, interaction patterns, and experience philosophy
- Set the aesthetic and experiential bar for a premium consumer product
- Ensure consistency across profiles, feeds, monetisation, and engagement tools
- Define and visualise the full Sure Jake product experience through high-quality UX concepts, key screens displaying core features and a clickable prototype
- Communicate the full platform vision
- Make the opportunity tangible for investors
- Translate complex functionality into intuitive, compelling experiences
- Work closely with the Founder on strategy and vision
- Guide and mentor a Senior UX Designer responsible for execution
- Act as the final UX authority for major product decisions
Requirements:
- 10+ years experience in UX, product design, or design leadership
- Proven experience designing consumer-facing platforms (social, marketplace, content, gaming, or media)
- Strong portfolio showing systems-level thinking, not just isolated screens
- Experience taking products from early concept to large-scale vision
- Deep understanding of mobile-first UX
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and shaping direction from first principles
- Ability to think commercially, not just creatively