Hey there! We're looking for a new member to join the Ghost team, maybe that's you?

We're a non-profit organization on a mission to create modern, independent publishing technology to power the future of online journalism.

This is not a rocket-ship. You won't find any unicorn glitter or exponential curves around here, just a real company with a sustainable business which has been profitable from year 1 and has been growing healthily ever since. Currently our annual revenue is $8,500,000+. We're very transparent about our mission and our metrics, you can read all about us.

Ghost is a full stack web application for running independent publications. It’s one of the most popular modern open source projects in the world, and is used in production by tens of thousands of websites and companies.

Chances are you've already visited and read sites which run on Ghost! Our users range from renowned publications like 404 Media, Platformer, and Tangle News, to prominent tech companies like YCombinator, First Round Review, Cloudflare and Kickstarter, and many, many more.

As the company grows, we're looking for talented a designer to join our product team, and help us build a world-class product. We care deeply about design and prioritise it at the heart of everything we do, so this is a role that comes with a lot of ability to make a meaningful impact on the direction of the whole company.

About the job  

As Product Designer at Ghost, you'll be the driver behind the creation of easy-to-use products that are visually appealing to our customers. Your responsibilities will include working throughout the product development cycle from conducting user research, defining producing specifications, concepting, detailed design, front-end code, design support, and QA. You'll work closely with our development team, other product designers and the customer success team. You're all about figuring out what products and features tie in with market and customer needs.

Everyone at Ghost is an engineer, including our design team. We're looking for designers who are as comfortable working in HTML/CSS as they are in Figma. There's no "hand-off" process at Ghost, all designers deliver their own creations and are responsible to the full spectrum of tasks from ideation, to front-end development, and performance analysis.

What this role involves:

🎨 Creation of user interfaces, features, workflows and new ideas. Working directly on the core Ghost product and helping to define and improve what's coming next.

⚡️ Working with design and marketing teams to define, evolve, and maintain Ghost's identity across all product touch points and documentation.

💑 We work on cross-functional product teams of 2-4 people, usually one designer and a few developers.

👻 Lots of freedom to take control of your process, iterating and learning what works (and what doesn't), and putting your work into production. There's a lot of opportunity for professional growth here, as the team expands.

📢 Communicating effectively with stakeholders when presenting your work and clearly articulating your design rationale

🤹‍♂️ Managing multiple projects, while setting appropriate expectations and meeting realistic deadlines

We’re looking for someone who is:

Confidently independent. All teams at Ghost operate fairly autonomously, and all team members are responsible for helping make decisions about what needs to be done. You'll need to be comfortable ideating, prototyping, testing and delivering designs without someone standing over your shoulder telling you what to do.

Meticulous about style. We don't A/B test 50 shades of blue to determine what converts best, we care about making beautiful things which we love, ourselves.

Humble but opinionated. We like smart people who have lots of ideas, yet are happy to discard their former opinions whenever a better way of doing things presents itself.

A clear communicator. Good design is good communication, and as a remote team which communicates almost exclusively through writing — concise, written communication is absolutely essential to this role.

An active collaborator. We look for people who actively want critical feedback on their work early and often, and who get a kick out of refining and pushing what they do as a collaborative process because it creates a better end result. No design heroes.

Hungry for meaningful work, and space to do it. Almost all work at Ghost is complex and challenging, but also deeply rewarding. This is a role where you can help influence design over the long term, not just fulfil a temporary brief which needs to be delivered quickly.

Very comfortable with code. Ghost is a software company, and everyone here codes in one way or another. You'll need to be comfortable with coding your designs in modern HTML & CSS — knowledge of React is a bonus.

We're looking for candidates in a timezone between UTC-5 to UTC+3.

We value diversity of all types at Ghost and our team is made up of a kind, thoughtful group of people with a wide range of backgrounds. Some of us are single, others are married, while others are parents. We actively try to find people with different perspectives and experiences to the ones we already have.

Salary & benefits

The starting salary range for this position is $100,000 to $180,000 USD. Most offers we make fall somewhere in the middle of the range. The exact offer will be determined by a combination of your experience, and our interview process.

On top of that, we offer a range of benefits...

All jobs at Ghost come with

💵 Competitive salary Based on role, skill, experience and location.

🌍 Work from anywhere From a home office, or be a nomad if that's your thing. Everything we do is online. As long as you have wifi, you're all set.

💻 Hardware A brand new Macbook Pro + an office workspace setup budget.

🏢 Co-working If you prefer to work from a co-working space, we'll help pay for it.

📚 Continue your personal development  A budget for attending conferences, taking courses, and purchasing books.

✈️ Worldwide team trips The last few trips have taken us to the UK, Spain & Thailand.

📅 4-day work weeks We close the office on Fridays. Enjoy!

🏝 Generous paid vacation If you don't take a minimum of a 2 week break yourself, we'll kick you out of the office in December.

👶 Paid parental leave When the time comes to welcome a new member of the family, we offer generous and fully paid parental leave.

📈 Pay reviews Everyone at Ghost receives an annual pay review in line with market rates, so you'll never be stuck on what you start on.

🐶 Dog friendly office ...just kidding we literally don't have an office. So, um. Feel free to work with your dog. Cats are cool, too.

Who you'll be working with

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