Product Designer

Scribd, Inc. is on a mission to advance human understanding. Our four products — Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable — help billions of people across the globe move beyond access and into insight, application, and expertise.

Culture at Scribd, Inc.

We support a culture where our employees can be real and be bold; where we debate and commit as we embrace plot twists; and where every employee is empowered to take action as we prioritize the customer.

We believe the best work happens when individual flexibility is balanced with meaningful community connection. Scribd Flex empowers employees to choose the workstyle and location that support their best performance, while committing to intentional in-person moments that strengthen collaboration and culture. Occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd, Inc. employees, regardless of location.

So what are we looking for in new team members? At Scribd, Inc., we hire for “GRIT.” Traditionally defined as the intersection of passion and perseverance toward long-term goals, GRIT reflects the mindset we expect from every employee. For us, it also serves as a practical framework for how we work: setting and achieving Goals, delivering Results within your role, contributing Innovative ideas and solutions, and strengthening the broader Team through collaboration and attitude.

This posting reflects an approved, open position within the organization.

The team

Scribd’s Design org is a 25-person group spanning Product Design, Research, and Brand Design—working across Everand, Fable, Scribd, and Slideshare.

We take initiative and stay close to our customers.

We debate openly, hold a high bar for craft, and push each other to keep raising it.

We expect real ownership, and give people the trust and room to run with it.

We care about growth with clear career paths and real support to keep leveling up.

We celebrate wins, learn from our losses, and laugh through both.

Join us!

The role

We're hiring a Senior Product Designer to drive growth across Everand and Fable.

Everand and Fable are the heart of Scribd's Premium business, reaching more than 1.4 million readers every month. Nobody's cracked what reading looks like when your library and your book club live in the same place. That's the opportunity, and you'd help define it.

Growth here means turning a curious reader into an engaged member of the community, a free user into a long-term subscriber, and a casual subscriber into someone who can't imagine reading without us. You'll design the experiences across that journey, working closely with Product, Research, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to spot opportunities, run experiments, and ship work that moves real numbers.

Design has a real voice here. At this level, you'll have the opportunity to lead vision and strategy across growth and lifecycle, and the people who thrive are the ones who take the reins and advocate for their POV. You'll report to our Director of Product Design and work alongside 6 Premium product and brand designers.

If you love books, care about the details that make a paywall feel like an invitation, and get a little thrill when a test result lands, you'll have a lot of fun here.

Design the growth journey

• Own the moments that turn readers into subscribers across app, web, and email across onboarding, plans and pricing, referrals, and lifecycle.

• Find natural ways to connect Fable's community with Everand's library.

• Bring your own ideas for what to test, and partner with your PM to scope experiments and set success metrics.

• Earn subscribers. No dark patterns, no tricks.

Ship with craft and velocity

• Take work from rough concept to production-ready without letting the details slip.

• Bring a strong visual voice to two distinct brands, and define new patterns when our systems fall short.

• Prototype early, in code when it’s the right tool. Use AI to explore more directions before narrowing, and validate them through usability testing before they ship.

Learn from every release

• Dig into results, spot where the journey is falling short, and bring a POV on what to try next.

• Ground your decisions in research, competitive insight, and what customers actually do.

• Share work early and often, and help the designers around you sharpen theirs.

The essentials

• You have 5+ years of product design experience, with real time spent on growth, monetization, or subscription products.

• Your visual craft stands out, your interaction design is just as solid, and you know how to get to great quickly.

• You've shipped experiments that moved conversion, activation, retention, and/or revenue, and you know why they worked.

• You think in journeys, not screens, and you help define the path forward when it isn't clear.

• You use AI daily to explore, prototype, and understand, build workflows others can reuse, and hold its output to the same bar as your own work.

• You love reading, and you have opinions about how and why people discover, share, and stick with books.

• You ground decisions in data, research, and customer insight, and can make the case for them with both evidence and taste.

• Bonus: motion design, consumer subscription apps, mobile, or community and social products.

The application

• Resume.

• Portfolio with 3+ case studies that show growth impact, strong visual craft, and a point of view grounded in the why. Include at least one test that didn't win, and what you learned from it.

• Password, if applicable.

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At Scribd, Inc., your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range. Our pay ranges are based on the local cost of labor benchmarks for each specific role, level, and geographic location. San Francisco is our highest geographic market in the United States.

 

In the state of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $129,000 [minimum salary in our lowest geographic market within California] to $194,000 [maximum salary in our highest geographic market within California].

 

In the United States, outside of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $106,000 [minimum salary in our lowest US geographic market outside of California] to $184,000 [maximum salary in our highest US geographic market outside of California].

 

In Canada, the reasonably expected salary range is between $136,500 CAD [minimum salary in our lowest geographic market] to $174,000 CAD [maximum salary in our highest geographic market].

 

We carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including but not limited to experience; job-related skill sets; relevant education or training; and other business and organizational needs. The salary range listed is for the level at which this job has been scoped. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for a competitive equity ownership, and a comprehensive and generous benefits package.

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Canada:

Ottawa | Toronto | Vancouver

Mexico:

Mexico City

Benefits at Scribd, Inc.

• Scribd Flex (flexible work model)

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage

• Mental health support and disability coverage

• Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals

• Paid parental leave and family support benefits

• Retirement matching and employee equity

• Learning and development programs and professional growth opportunities

• Wellness and home office stipends

• Complimentary access to the Scribd, Inc. suite of products

• Enterprise access to leading AI tools

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