Full-Time

Product Designer

Posted on 6/26/2025

Partiful

Partiful

51-200 employees

Event planning and guest management platform

Compensation Overview

$130k - $150k/yr

New York, NY, USA

In Person

Category
UI/UX & Design (1)
Required Skills
UI/UX Design
Product Design
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • 2–3 years of experience designing & shipping digital products, ideally at a startup or in consumer social
  • A portfolio that shows clear thinking, strong visuals, and product intuition and reasoning
  • Experience designing UX and UI for both web and mobile
  • Experience working on multiple projects at the same time
  • Strong grasp of visual hierarchy, layout, and typography - an eye for quality and polish
  • A collaborative mindset — you work well with others, leave ego at the door, and give and receive feedback with care
Responsibilities
  • Design and ship delightful product experiences for mobile and web
  • Design compelling graphics for marketing efforts across our product, landing page, and socials
  • Partner with product engineers to define what we build - from scoping to iterating on flows to high-fidelity mocks
  • Partner with marketing to communicate and deliver our product to the world - from new feature launches to ~vibes~
  • Use data, user research, product context, and design instinct to inform your decisions
  • Bring clarity to complex problems and delight to polished experiences
Desired Qualifications
  • Motion design or microanimations (Lottie, Rive, pure CSS)
  • Prototyping
  • Storyboarding for animations and demo videos
  • UX writing or microcopy
  • Front-end development
  • Creating iconsets
  • Design systems
  • Video Editing
  • User Research

Partiful provides a platform for planning and enjoying social events. It helps hosts organize parties and gatherings by offering tools like RSVP collection, photo sharing, polls, and text updates to guests, all in one place. The product works through a web/mobile platform where hosts create events, invite attendees, and manage communications and updates, while guests respond and participate. Partiful differentiates itself by focusing on delivering a smooth social experience that emphasizes making friends and memories, combining event-planning features with social networking in a subscription-based model that includes premium features for enhanced convenience. The company aims to make event planning easier and more enjoyable for both hosts and guests by streamlining coordination and engagement.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$20M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2020

Simplify Jobs

Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Instacart partnership targets $120 billion U.S. alcohol and convenience delivery market with transaction-based revenue expansion.
  • Collaborative hosting features and cross-platform invite links reduce friction for multi-organizer events and non-app users.
  • Pizza Hut partnership signals B2B monetization pathway beyond freemium model, diversifying revenue beyond Group Order commissions.

What critics are saying

  • Apple's native Invites app (iOS 18+, 2025) and Meta's WhatsApp/Instagram event planning (Q3 2025) displace Partiful's core value proposition.
  • No disclosed monetization despite $27.34M raised creates runway depletion pressure, forcing paywall adoption that triggers user exodus.
  • Gen Z migration to Discord and Telegram for event coordination erodes core demographic as younger users seek multi-purpose platforms.

What makes Partiful unique

  • Social media-style event pages with animated GIFs and meme designs appeal to Gen Z hosts seeking alternatives to Facebook Events.
  • Freemium model keeps all core planning features free, enabling broader adoption than subscription-based competitors like Eventbrite.
  • Group Order integration with Instacart embeds commerce directly into event pages for party supplies and alcohol delivery.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Mental Health Support

Commuter Benefits

Unlimited Paid Time Off

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-17%

1 year growth

-19%

2 year growth

-11%
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