Senior Product Designer

About Howl

Launched in 2022, Howl is a creator-first social commerce platform, democratizing the creator economy by empowering diverse creators to increase revenue with their easy to use and transparent proprietary platform. By changing the way creators and brands connect, Howl is opening doors for often overlooked entrepreneurs to succeed.  No other platform is as community driven, encouraging brands and creators to connect.

Creators on Howl don’t gate-keep on what’s working for them.  With financial incentives that encourage their best partners to proactively share insights and rewards with other creators, one creator’s success becomes many. Since inception, Howl has paid over $100M to creators.

About the Role

Howl is looking for a Senior Product /UX Designer to help usher our products into their next phase post our redesign and new product launch. It's quite the exciting time if you ask us! 

You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will:

• • Help craft the vision of what our client-facing products can do. You will be transforming the complex into simple; raw data into usable insights. 
  • Leverage prototyping, UX research to help us reimagine how our users do their work: from marketers at the hottest brands and retailers; to writers, editors, and creators who write the internet’s most trusted recommendations. 
  • Externalized our internal tools into the self-serve platform necessary to scale and grow the company. 
  • Take the lead on creating, managing, and championing our design system.

We’re Excited About You Because:

• You have a track record of success: Has built an end-to-end experience that people currently use. Has delivered projects in abbreviated time frames, owned and led alignment discussions around discovery and design. 
• You are a structured thinker: Can break down a design into its component parts, and then guide a group of stakeholders through countless design directions to an actionable result. Ability to help scope, discover design projects,  take direction and feedback and iterate quickly 
• You score high on user empathy / curiosity: Always grounds the design process in a deep curiosity about the user. 
• You are highly collaborative: Brings a low-ego approach to the team, seamlessly incorporating feedback and new inputs into their design/thought process, while pushing back against stakeholders when necessary. Opinionated but humble. 
• You can confidently explore (speed):  In early exploration phases, brings exceptional design velocity to guide stakeholders through multiple “rough” versions to quickly validate ideas and drive conversation.
• You are Adaptable: Has worked in a fast-paced environment — bringing well-worn frameworks to the table and the confidence to break from them when necessary. Fluidity and comfortable with iteration.
• Must be US based

What we offer:

• Market competitive and pay equity-focused compensation structure
• 100% paid health insurance for employees with 80% coverage for dependents; with FSA and HSA compatibility 
• 100% coverage of Teledoc services & One Medical memberships for employees and dependents  
• Flexible PTO and 20 days paid Holidays 
• WFH stipend 
• Retirement planning- 401k through Empower 
• Talkspace membership 
• Paid parental leave of 12 weeks for all new parents 

The base salary range for this role is $160,000 - $190,000. 

At Howl, we offer a competitive compensation package inclusive of base salary, incentive pay and stock options. Incentive awards are allocated based on individual performance. Certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role.

Howl is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.