Product Designer, Partnerships

About the Design Team

We're a tight-knit team of product designers, researchers, and content designers working closely with engineers and product managers to research, explore, and iterate on well-crafted user experiences that are innovative, engaging, and delightful. We collaborate regularly through design critiques, work sessions, and presentations to inspire and influence the direction of the product and company as a whole.

About the Partnerships Team

Partnerships is one of the fastest-growing areas of Thumbtack’s business and unlocking new growth opportunities through collaboration. Each new business vertical and partnership represents a unique opportunity to reach new customers and expand the value of Thumbtack’s platform.

Our team operates like a startup within Thumbtack. We identify high-potential verticals, form strategic relationships, and move from concept to product by validating new ideas, defining product-market fit, and scaling what works. Some partnerships are mature and expanding while others are just beginning. Across all of them, we balance experimentation with execution to build products that create mutual value for partners, pros, and homeowners alike.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Product Designer with excellent prototyping, motion, and visual design skills to join our Partnerships team. This role will help accelerate go-to-market efforts and unlock new growth opportunities by pairing product design sensibility with storytelling, prototyping, and polish. You’ll work closely with Business Development, Sales, Go-to-Market Operations, and Product teams to rapidly visualize future-state partner experiences, craft high-quality pitches and support launches, and contribute to new vertical product design.

This is a product design role with a twist: you’ll spend the majority of your time in visualizing new experiences, prototyping, animation, and production design more than most roles, creating interactive demos and motion-rich experiences that help partners feel what’s possible.

What you'll do

• Own the design and delivery of high-polish pitch decks, partner demo decks, and interactive launch experiences, aligning design with business strategy, partner story, and go-to-market narrative.
• Build interactive prototypes with motion and animation that bring future-state partner experiences to life.
• Create high-fidelity interactive demos and partner assets that help partners understand and feel potential product experiences.
• Design and maintain reusable visual and motion assets that scale across Business Development, Sales, and Marketing efforts.
• Contribute to launch planning and go-to-market efforts through refined visual design, ensuring polish and cohesion across touchpoints.
• Collaborate with product designers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to improve the craft and execution of live partner experiences.
• Translate partner and business needs into user journeys, requirements, and clear visual narratives.

In order to be successful, you must bring

• 3-5 years of overall product design experience.
• A blend of agency and in-house product-design experience, with a portfolio that demonstrates interactive prototyping, motion/animation, and visual storytelling.
• Strong prototyping skills using tools like Figma, with comfort moving from low-fidelity flows to high-fidelity prototypes with motion and interaction.
• Experience designing UI micro-interactions, transitions, or interactive animations that enhance understanding and delight.
• Visual and production design acumen with strong attention to craft, motion timing, and execution detail.
• Understanding of technical feasibility and ability to collaborate effectively with engineering partners.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills to align cross-functional stakeholders.
• Bonus - Hands-on experience or strong curiosity in AI-driven prototyping workflows.

Expected salary ranges

• For candidates living in San Francisco / Bay Area, San Jose, New York City, or Seattle metros, the expected salary range for the role is currently $149,900 - $194,000.
• For candidates living in Austin, TX or Washington DC metros or in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, or Washington states, the expected salary range for the role is currently $135,000 - $174,700.
• For candidates living in all other US locations, the expected salary range for this role is currently $127,400 - $164,900.

Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as calibrated job level, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.