Product Designer, Partnerships and Brand Experience

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for and improve their homes through personalized guidance, AI tools, and a hiring experience connecting homeowners with local service businesses. The Product Designer will support the Partnerships team and Thumbtack’s brand system by creating product experiences, interactive prototypes, motion-rich demos, and polished visual designs while collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive initiatives from concept to scale.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 3–5 years of product design experience
• A blend of agency and in-house product design experience, supported by a strong portfolio
• Advanced Figma prototyping skills, from low-fidelity flows to high-fidelity experiences with motion and interaction
• Experience creating polished micro-interactions, transitions, and animations, with strong attention to craft, timing, and detail
• Experience translating brand systems into product experiences through motion, iconography, and UI polish
• Understanding of technical feasibility and ability to collaborate effectively with engineering partners
• Strong communication and visual storytelling skills to align cross-functional stakeholders