Product Designer

🏢 Patreon · 📍 San Francisco · 💼 hybrid · ⏰ FullTime

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Patreon is a media and community platform where over 300,000 creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences. We offer creators a variety of ways to engage with their fans and build a lasting business including: paid memberships, free memberships, community chats, live video, and selling to fans directly with one-time purchases.

Ultimately our goal is simple: fund the creative class. And we're leaders in that space, with:

$10 billion+ generated by creators since Patreon's inception
100 million+ free memberships for fans who may not be ready to pay just yet, and
25 million+ paid memberships on Patreon today.

We're continuing to invest heavily in building the best creator platform with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for a Product Designer to support our mission.

This role is open to remote candidates in select U.S. locations. For those based in New York or San Francisco, we ask that you work from the office 3 days per week on a hybrid work model.

About the Team

We’re hiring a Product Designer to help shape the experiences that define how creators and fans connect on Patreon. You’ll work on meaningful product problems across the creator and fan journey, from how creators share and grow their work to how fans discover, engage with, and build deeper relationships with the creators they love.

You’ll tackle complex, high-impact opportunities that span the product, bringing clarity to ambiguous problems and turning ideas into thoughtful, polished experiences. Your work may involve evolving core product experiences, exploring new ways for creators to showcase their work and connect with fans, or designing tools and systems that help creators build sustainable businesses and engaged communities.

You’ll be part of a collaborative design organization, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Research to shape product directio

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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Assessing deep empathy for creators, scale-up architectural or operational scalability, and commitment to creator economy monetization.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Treating creators as mere transactions rather than creative small business owners
2. Proposing solutions that add friction to the creator-to-fan checkout flow
3. Inability to discuss trade-offs between creator autonomy and platform standardization

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I am obsessed with building sustainable financial infrastructure that lets creators turn their passion into enduring, predictable businesses.

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