Senior Product Design Lead

Summary

🤝 You’ll be joining the early design team at Jitter

👩‍💻 You are a hands-on design leader passionate about craft and engineering collaboration to ship exceptional, detail-driven product experiences

📍 Based in Paris (in-person) – relocation packages if needed

🇬🇧 We’re an international team and work in English

💰 80k-95k€ + Stock options / BSPCE – we can go higher for exceptional candidates

💫 Who we are

Jitter is a fast, simple, and collaborative motion design tool on the web. We help designers create beautiful animations for marketing videos, brand content, apps and websites — and collaborate easily with teammates, clients, and stakeholders. Think “Figma for motion design.”

With over 20,000 creative teams already using Jitter around the world, our next chapter is ambitious: to make motion a foundational layer of every design stack, by building the motion design operating system that will standardize and scale motion across every brand and campaign, from ideation to production, similar to how design systems transformed UI design.

✨ Our mission. Make motion design accessible to all designers.

🔭 Our ambition. Become the leading platform to create animated content.

👋 Who you are

You are a hands-on design leader with a deep passion for craft and a strong belief in close collaboration with engineers to bring excellence into every product detail, from high-level user experience to the finest interface interaction. You thrive at the intersection of design and engineering, ensuring that every feature we ship is thoughtful, cohesive, and beautifully executed.

• 6+ years of experience designing for high-growth startups and/or scale-ups at a senior or director position, with a proven track record of shipping polished, user-centered products
• Outstanding visual design skills, with strong command of typography, layout, color, and visual hierarchy
• A sharp eye for design, obsessive attention to detail, and an intuitive sense of what feels right
• A natural problem-solver who enjoys making the complex feel simple and elegant
• Deep appreciation for design craft, and a creative sensibility shaped by curiosity across disciplines
• Experience in motion design (bonus if you’ve used Jitter or explored similar tools)
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, iterative environment where speed, autonomy, and high standards go hand in hand

💥 What you’ll do

You’ll be the first software designer to join the product team as we enter the next phase of Jitter’s growth. This is a foundational role, with the mission to own the end-to-end product experience and raise the design quality across every detail of the platform.

• Own the craft. You’ll be responsible for the full execution of Jitter’s core product design: every pixel, every interaction, every moment of the user journey. You’ll have the authority to challenge assumptions, rethink workflows, and simplify complexity across the interface.
• Raise the bar. Our goal is to stand shoulder to shoulder with the best-designed products in the world (Apple, Figma, Linear, Framer, etc). You’ll set the standard, push the limits of our craft, and help establish design excellence as a core company value.
• Shape and grow the Product Design team. You'll play a key role in shaping and scaling the Product Design team from the ground up, from hiring exceptional talent and mentoring designers, to defining strong, cross-functional ways of working across design, product, and engineering.
• Be part of the bigger picture. You’ll contribute to strategic decisions, roadmap planning, and long-term product vision.

⏭️ What this looks like day to day:

• Evolving the editor by introducing new advanced creative features in the most intuitive way possible. You'll collaborate closely with engineers to invent solutions that feel obvious in hindsight, the kind of solutions people talk about with: "How did no one build this before?"
• Redesigning the workspace experience to support the needs of fast-growing teams and global organizations, with leading companies like Google, DEPT, Spotify, AKQA, The New York Times, LVMH, and more already adopting Jitter.
• Leading the vision and execution of the industry's first motion design OS, defining what it is, how it works, and how it empowers the next generation of creative teams.

👀 Why join us

You’ll be joining a fast-moving, experimental environment where it’s safe to try, fail, learn, and build again. We’re a small, ambitious, and kind team with a high talent density across disciplines, operating with the focus and output of a 40+ person company.

Our team brings strong creative convictions and deep experience from world-class institutions like Apple, Google, GoPro, Slack, Y Combinator, Stanford, Polytechnique, École Centrale, and more. Everyone at Jitter has real ownership, autonomy, and the freedom to shape how they work, what they build, and how they grow.

We’re looking for people who bring care, intensity, and purpose to everything they create, and who see every challenge as a chance to do the best work of their lives. People who are obsessed with the problem, who care deeply about unlocking creativity for others, and who feel genuinely connected to the mission.

We believe that level of passion is how we’ll build something truly original, not just a great tool, but a lasting creative platform. If this feels like the kind of opportunity you’ve been waiting for, and you want to help define what the future of creative tools looks like for the next decade, then we’d love to build it with you.

⏭️ More specifically:

• Join an early-stage team with real traction: strong community, product-market fit, community love, and a clear roadmap to grow over x3 every year. Jitter is already a leading design tool: we serve hundreds of thousands of monthly active users, the community awarded us a Design Tool of the Year award on Product Hunt, and our Figma plugin has more than 430k installs, the largest standalone animation plugin on Figma Community.

• Deepen your creative confidence. At Jitter, software design is embedded within the broader design and brand ecosystem, giving you the opportunity to stretch into more artistic, expressive, and conceptual territory. It's a chance to grow not just as a designer, but as a multidimensional creative.

• Grow with the company. We’re planning to double the team by the end of 2026, and you'll be joining at a pivotal moment. If leadership is your path, we’ll support your growth from individual contributor to manager with mentorship and opportunity.

• Explore side projects that broaden your creative scope, beyond software design:

🎙️ Co-host and produce a design podcast

🎥 Contribute to our in-house content studio (fully equipped with pro gear)

🎉 Collaborate on brand events, merch drops, or creative partnerships with studios and design-led brands

• Work from our new 500m² flagship studio in the heart of Le Marais, Paris’s most vibrant neighborhoods, surrounded by cafés, art galleries, and emerging brands shaping global culture. Our office is more than a workspace: it’s both a brand flagship and a design hub for the creative community, where we host monthly events and welcome the world to join us in building what’s next.

🙌 Work environment and culture

We are building a stellar team of humble, inspiring, creative smart folks who enjoy building world-class products, learning, and growing together. Here are some soft skills we’re excited about:

✨ Excellence. You love building great products and you deeply care about the quality of your work. You always go the extra mile.

⚡ Energy. You are clear and engaging. You are excited to ship, and pass that energy to the team. You love to come up with creative solutions.

🤝 Team play. You are a team player who loves to co-create. You love to be inspired, and inspire others to help them grow.

🧭 Ownership. You are a self-starter who gets things done. You focus on the most impactful initiatives with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Diversity and inclusion are core to our culture. If you are a member of an underrepresented group in tech, we strongly encourage you to apply.

🔖 Perks and benefits

We offer best-in-class benefits:

• Base salary: 80k-95k€ – we can go higher for exceptional candidates
• Employee-friendly stock options / BSPCE (extended exercise window)
• Relocation package (if needed)
• 5 weeks of paid vacation
• Health insurance (for you and your family)
• Parental leave
• Office setup of your choice
• Regular team events and offsites
• High-impact work where your voice truly matters

⚙️ Hiring process

It's a straight-forward process:

1. Screening call. 30 min, remote
2. Portfolio review (deep dive on the 2 past projects you’re the most proud of). 1h, remote
3. Collaboration test, reviewed with the team. 2 hours, remote or in-person
4. Culture fit interview and meet the team. Half a day, in-person

We'll also ask for some reference calls.