<aside> 📣 Sharing this opportunity with a friend? Here’s a blurb: Fanhouse has a rare opening on their leadership team for a Design Lead who can drive the entire product design org. You will empower creators to build community-powered businesses through high-impact design work as well as managing other designers.

Fanhouse was founded because one of the co-founders is a creator herself. They’ve helped creators earn over $10M, and they just did a $20M Series A with a16z. If you’re curious, there’s more on their website: https://fanhouse.notion.site/Design-Lead-0eefa298bab6440a93f236128581c218

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We're looking for a design lead who we can count on to…

• own: product feel, visual and interactive product elements, comprehensive user experience with product, user needs, design system, design processes, visual identity of the Fanhouse brand, creative direction
• teach: guide users intuitively through the product experience, formalize to the team what user personas are thriving on Fanhouse, show the team what unmet creator and fan needs are not currently being serviced by the product
• learn: discover core motivations and needs for fans and creators, deeply understand target user personas, become an expert with the product and competing products and how our brand reflects our positioning
• improve: user experience, product features, quantitative and qualitative user experience research methods, long term product direction, cohesion across product and brand, creative style across graphics and videos

What type of impact will you have?

Within...

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you'll...

• Familiarize with the current product feature set and what needs we currently serve
• Help prioritize and spec new features, creating wireframes and prototypes that will go into production within 1-2 weeks
• Manage team of 2 product designers

• Maintain a design system and help engineering integrate and roll out new priority components
• Interview and assess new product design candidates
• Spend time with creators and fans identifying motivations and core needs that could be served by new product directions
• Creative directing for graphics, videos, merchandise and more

• Deep dive on branding and messaging, aligning that with the product, sales, and marketing
• Train new product design hires
• Collaborate with multiple cross functional teams such as marketing, sales, support and engineering
• Solidify design-engineering process loops

• Maintain and expand Fanhouse’s design, branding, and styling systems, guides, documentation, processes
• Lead high-level product design, creative, and visual identity decisions, potentially as a design executive
• Measure outcomes of design choices using quantitative means
• Help to hire other design leaders
• Collaborate with founders and other executives to analyze product features, branding, and user satisfaction + retention

You’d be a great fit if you:

• Have 4-10+ years in product design (illustration/graphic design, visual/brand design a plus)
• Care deeply about creators and creator-centric communities
• Are excited about the combo of doing IC work + managing a small team
• Have a track record of scaling design systems + processes in ambiguous environments, early stage startups, new product launches, and/or small design teams

What is Fanhouse?

There are over 50 million creators on the internet. Some have thousands of fans, some have millions. At Fanhouse, we believe that every creator generates immense cultural value and fosters deep community -- and they should be fairly paid for that. Fanhouse is a subscription social media platform where online creators share the behind-the-scenes of their lives and engage with their closest fans. Since launch, creators earned over $9,000,000 from their fans on Fanhouse, enabling them to pay off medical bills, student loans, rent, and credit card debt.

Our team values unique perspectives and experiences, and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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