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About the Role

Lead and grow a team of senior individual-contributor designers, shaping how creators discover, organize, and share content through Linktree. This is a player-coach role where you will manage, coach, and develop a small team while staying hands-on with design, personally owning challenging problems. You will set design vision, craft standards, and partner with Product, Engineering, and Marketing leaders. As the team scales, this role has the potential to grow into a broader leadership remit. You will also help define how Linktree scales design as the company grows.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop a team of senior individual-contributor designers.
Stay hands-on as a player-coach, personally owning and shipping design work on high-leverage or ambiguous problems.
Set design vision and craft direction for your area, ensuring quality and consistency.
Partner with Product, Engineering, and Marketing leaders to align design with business priorities.
Own hiring and team composition for your area, adapting as the business and team scale.
Establish and evolve craft standards, critique practices, and design operating rhythms for the team.
Represent design in cross-functional forums, translating design work into business impact.
Balance individual craft contribution with management, modeling the expected standard for the team.

Requirements

10+ years of design experience, including experience managing and growing individual contributors.
Proven track record of shipping high-quality design within a consumer product or creator/marketplace platform.
Demonstrated ability to hire, coach, develop, and retain strong individual-contributor designers, especially at the senior level.
Strong craft judgment and the ability to give and model high-leverage feedback.
Experience partnering with Product, Engineering, and Marketing leaders.
Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear design direction.
Comfort balancing personal craft work with team leadership, and good judgment on when to do versus delegate.
Excellent written and verbal communication.
A growth mindset toward AI-accelerated design tools and how they change workflows.

Skills

Design leadership
Coaching
Mentoring
Product design
Craft standards
Cross-functional collaboration
Hiring
Team building
Feedback delivery
Communication
AI-accelerated design tools

Location

San Francisco
Los Angeles
London
Melbourne
Remote
Hybrid

Work Type

Remote
Hybrid

Experience Level

Principal
Senior

Salary/Compensations

$250,000 - $290,000

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Cash
Equity
Annual wellbeing allowance
100% coverage of monthly premiums for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance (US-based employees)
80% coverage for dependents of monthly premiums for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance (US-based employees)
Employer contribution towards retirement
Generous time off for vacation, holidays, parental leave, volunteer time
Employee stock option program

About the Company

Linktree is on a mission to empower anyone to curate, grow, and monetize their digital universe.
They created the “link in bio” category and are redefining how people connect with their communities, showcase content, and promote products.
Over 70 million users community, including notable icons and brands.
Linktree is the fastest-growing leader in its space with 48,000 new accounts created daily.
They have partnered with major platforms like TikTok, Snap, YouTube, and Google, as well as retail brands like Amazon, Nike, and Nordstrom.
They are a tight-knit, passionate team building best-in-class tools for online presence.
They are excited by the idea of shaping a new category, setting the standard, and making space for everyone to be seen and succeed.

Equal Opportunity

Linktree is committed to providing a fair and competitive compensation package.
If you don’t tick every box, don’t rule yourself out; they hire based on potential.
Linktree believes in promoting a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, talents, and experiences.
They are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
They are creating an inclusive workplace where every individual feels valued, respected, and has equal opportunities to thrive.
They aim to foster a diverse and inclusive environment where all team members have a sense of belonging.
Linktree welcomes all people regardless of sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, pregnancy, age, or other lived experience.
If accommodations are required to fully participate, please contact talent@linktr.ee.