What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Designer (NYC) Hybrid position at Embakire Workforce?
Job Description
About the Role
We’re looking for a Product Designer to help bring early-stage product ideas and new initiatives to life. This role sits at the intersection of brand, product, and marketing, with a focus on defining the first visual expression of new ideas—from landing pages and launch moments to early product visuals.
You’ll work closely with a small, fast-moving team to shape how new projects look, feel, and communicate value from day one. This is a hands-on role for a designer with strong visual taste, comfort with ambiguity, and excitement about building the first version of things.
What You’ll Do
About the Role
We’re looking for a Product Designer to help bring early-stage product ideas and new initiatives to life. This role sits at the intersection of brand, product, and marketing, with a focus on defining the first visual expression of new ideas—from landing pages and launch moments to early product visuals.
You’ll work closely with a small, fast-moving team to shape how new projects look, feel, and communicate value from day one. This is a hands-on role for a designer with strong visual taste, comfort with ambiguity, and excitement about building the first version of things.
What You’ll Do
- Help define the visual direction for new initiatives and early-stage projects, including brand identity, look & feel, and storytelling.
- Design early landing pages, launch assets, and marketing surfaces to support new ideas as they come to market.
- Own end-to-end visual design projects, from early concepts through polished execution and launch.
- Collaborate closely with design, product, engineering, marketing, and leadership partners to turn loose ideas into clear, compelling visuals.
- Contribute visual design and polish to product experiences as projects evolve.
- Maintain a high bar for craft, detail, and clarity across everything you ship.
- Experiment with and incorporate AI and emerging tools to improve ideation, iteration speed, and production quality.
- Balance creative exploration with practical execution in a fast-moving environment.
- 3 years of professional design experience, with the ability to independently own visual design projects.
- Strong foundation in typography, layout, color, and composition.
- Experience designing for digital surfaces such as web or product interfaces.
- Proficiency with modern design tools (e.g. Figma).
- Ability to context switch working across multiple 0-1 brands simultaneously.
- Interest in experimenting with AI tools to enhance your design process (prior experience is a plus, but not required).
- A strong portfolio demonstrating:
- Visual design excellence across brand, product, or marketing work
- Thoughtful storytelling and range
- High-quality execution and attention to detail
- Experience working on early-stage products or new initiatives.
- Startup or fast-paced team experience.
- Motion, illustration, or 3D skills.
- Familiarity with or curiosity about web3 products and ecosystems.
- Experience collaborating on product UI or product-adjacent design work.
- Defining the visual direction for a new initiative or early-stage product.
- Designing and shipping a first-pass landing page for a new launch.
- Visual exploration and concepting for new ideas before they’re fully formed.
- Supporting visual design and polish for early product experiences as needed.
Salary : $120,000 - $180,000