Join the BuzzFeed Product Design team

We’re hiring 3 Product Designers!

The Product Design team at BuzzFeed is currently looking for three Product Designers to join our team in our New York office. Our team is made up of multidisciplinary designers, who are individually responsible for all aspects of design from research to execution. Our designers are key collaborators on cross-discipline activities, and we value transparency, collaboration, and strong communication.

As a Product Designer at BuzzFeed, you’ll learn new skills quickly, have ownership over large and impactful projects, build your career, and have fun while doing it. We care deeply about building a diverse team and then supporting every team member in their career and skill growth.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

A Senior Product Designer to lead efforts on our Apps team.
BuzzFeed reaches a massive global audience of more than 450 million people a month, and app users are some of our most engaged users. The App team works to serve that audience, constantly improving the experience of reading posts, taking quizzes, and watching videos. Recently, the team has been working to get the app to an updated, solid foundation by cleaning up the home feed, refreshing the article page, improving ad performance and experience, and increasing the amount of content types that display natively within the app. Heading into next year, the apps team will build off of their strong foundation by introducing new features and experiences.

As the design lead for the apps team, you’ll collaborate with a product manager and engineering lead to define the future of the BuzzFeed app. You’ll collaborate with engineers to design and build new experiences, features, and tools for some of BuzzFeed’s most loyal users.

A Senior Product Designer to lead efforts on our Commerce team.
Last year, BuzzFeed’s commerce business drove more than $250 million in transactions from affiliate sales and licensing revenue. Our editorial teams tell our audience about the best deals, and inspire gift ideas. Our tech team builds experiences to support big holidays like Black Friday and collaborates with our advertising team to make new ad products that cater to our shopping audience. The Commerce tech team partners with our business and editorial teams to help people find products they’ll love and buy.

As a designer on the Commerce team, you’ll be integral to helping us build a new revenue stream for BuzzFeed that also serves our audience in a meaningful way.

A Product Designer for our Site team.
BuzzFeed reaches a massive global audience of more than 450 million people a month, much of which is on our site. The site team works to serve that audience by maintaining and improving the content consumption experience on BuzzFeed.com. Recently, the team launched our new TV & Movies vertical, significantly reduced the load time of our article pages, experimented with new recommendation models for recirculation, conducted interviews with our highly engaged audience, and more.

As a designer on the site team, you’ll collaborate with product managers, engineers, and another designer to define the visual design and design systems for BuzzFeed.com, experiment with new experiences for our highly engaged audience while also collaborating with advertising partners on tailored experiences that fit within the BuzzFeed brand.

How we work

We’re constantly working to raise the bar and ensure that we’re investing our time and energy into the most impactful work. Designers at BuzzFeed collaborate with their cross-discipline partners to evaluate the work their teams take on, and make sure they’re always biasing for impact.

We value transparency, collaboration, and strong communication. We use design critiques, peer critique sessions, Basecamp, Slack, and informal conversations in order to continuously seek out feedback on our work. We know that getting feedback on our work is the only way to make it better, so we critique work early and often.

We’re generous with our time and support each other. We’re always looking for opportunities to share our experiences and knowledge with each other. Designers have a range of formal to informal settings to mentor, coach, and sponsor others on the design team. As designers become more senior, mentorship is an explicit expectation of the role.

We advocate for our opinions while maintaining a low ego. As designers, we know it’s important to cultivate our own opinions about product and design and practice backing up our decision making in design critiques and on Basecamp. At the same time, we’re open to ideas that are not our own and encourage listening to and seeking out other points of view.

We’re flexible and open to new challenges and opportunities. At BuzzFeed, we work at a quick pace and our ability to change course and spin up new projects is one of our most exciting competitive advantages. We understand how to balance speed and quality based on the scope, risk, stage, and impact of projects.

The interview process

We place a high value on creating a humane, thoughtful experience for every candidate we interview. On rare occasions, we may shuffle steps, but if we do so, we will communicate any changes and the reasoning behind them. Our interviews are not a test, and we want candidates to have as much information as they need to be successful. Here’s a brief overview of our process:

• A 45 minute call to tell you about the role, answer any questions you have, and ask you about how you collaborate and work through disagreements.
• A 1 hour portfolio review where you share 2–3 projects you’ve worked on in the past, from conception to launched product.
• After that, we sometimes do a design exercise or a follow up call. We only use this step when we feel we need information we weren’t able to glean from the previous steps, and if we decide to do an exercise, we’ll pay you for your time.
• Then we schedule an onsite loop. We’ll bring you to the BuzzFeed office in New York to meet in-person with a few of our team members. Generally, our loops are composed of a handful of 45-minute meetings: a portfolio review, a product interview, engineering interview, 2 whiteboard sessions, and an HTML/CSS interview.
• From there, the team makes a decision. After the onsite interview, we gather the folks you talked with and ask them to answer two questions: What could this candidate add to BuzzFeed? and In what ways would we need to support this candidate to help them grow? If we feel there’s a strong match, we’ll put together an offer for you and roll it out to you. If we feel that the role we have isn’t a strong match for your particular skill set, we promise to let you know just as swiftly (we know waiting for a response can be one of the worst parts of the process!).

You can read a more in depth explanation of each of these stages here, and if you’re a candidate you can ask us any questions you might have directly!

To apply

If you think you’d make a good fit for any of our open roles — even if you don’t meet 100% of the bullet points in the job postings — we’d like to hear from you! Please fill out the job application directly or email me (Kelsey Scherer) and tell us why you think you’d make a good fit.