Lead Product Designer

About Filmhub 🎬

Filmhub is a global, all rights, film & TV distributor. Leveraging decades of industry expertise and a legacy of billions of dollars in global box office, we distribute unlimited opportunity to the storytellers, creatives, and makers who drive our industry.

Filmhub was founded by world-renowned composer and producer Klaus Badelt (Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator) and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Alan d’Escragnolle (Square, Intuit) and funded by the top investors in tech & entertainment including a16z & 8VC.

Pairing a global network of strategic relationships with cutting-edge technology, we represent the industry’s leaders, from producers of global blockbusters to Oscar legends, festival darlings, cinema auteurs, and indie heroes.

What’s the opportunity? 🤔

Filmhub seeks an imaginative and driven full-stack Lead Product Designer to elevate our visuals and transform our software into a beautiful, easy-to-use product.

This role will be instrumental in defining and driving the aesthetic and experience of our platform. Collaborating closely with product and engineering partners, you will help build the foundational elements that power our platform and create memorable user experiences. Your keen eye for innovative visual design will bring our brand to life within our product. You will work on core product experiences and unique brand moments and systematically build our design system to ensure a coherent and beautiful user experience.

Our product designers take a product, feature, or experience from ideation to production. This includes vision setting, designing solutions, prototyping, collaborating with cross-functional teams, overseeing implementation, and working closely with Filmhub’s Founders, product management, and product engineering.

What will I be doing? 🚀

You will play a key role in shaping the future of film distribution and how filmmakers share their work globally.

• Lead the end-to-end design process, from identifying user needs and pain points to delivering outstanding user experiences.

• Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and founding teams.

• Contribute to defining our product experience and design system across several foundational surfaces.

• You should be involved in every aspect of creating the product, from brainstorming the next great innovation to prototyping new features.

• Utilize your full range of product design, interaction design, and visual design skills.

• Apply original, creative thinking to develop visionary product concepts.

• Lead work driving fundamental concepts across both mobile and web clients.

• Give and solicit feedback from other designers to continually raise our bar for quality.

• Set design vision and create solutions that align with Filmhub’s mission.

• Prototype designs and oversee implementation, ensuring high-quality execution.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive and effective design outcomes.

• Apply consumer insights and metrics to inform design decisions and shape the product roadmap.

• Participate in design critiques, providing constructive feedback and support to team members.

• Advocate for the voice of the customer, utilizing human-centered design principles.

What skills do I need? 📖

• 8+ years of experience in software design, visual design, interaction design, UX design, and prototyping on creative teams and in technical environments.

• Strong systems thinking skills to connect the dots across the entire customer journey.

• A passion for turning complex problems into simple and engaging experiences.

• Outstanding UX ability, visual design, and product thinking for web and mobile platforms.

• Experience applying research, usability tests, and metrics to inform design decisions.

• Comfort with an iterative design process that includes accepting and acting on feedback.

• A deep penchant for systems thinking and UX.

• Strong analytical, technical, and strategic skills.

• Background in customer-facing front-end development for mobile and web clients.

• Experience collaborating across disciplines to lead or support new ideas or product launches.

• Experience conducting and guiding user research.

• Proven skills in presenting work, workshopping concepts, and evangelizing new ideas.

• A passion for transforming complex problems into simple, engaging solutions.

• A deep understanding of the end-to-end design process.

• Comfort with an iterative design process, incorporating feedback effectively.

• Experience designing for multiple platforms, including mobile (iOS and Android) and web.

• Effective collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.

• Proficiency in interpreting data to make informed design decisions.

• Leadership skills with a focus on customer-centric design principles.

• Expertise in customer journey mapping and strategic design.

• An active influencer with strong business acumen to help demonstrate the value of design

• And you also love movies, filmmakers, and the creative process around making films and shows – and ideally, you have worked in the field, for example, in film marketing or production.

Filmhub, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.