MediaLab is a media & technology company focused on acquiring and growing properties and global brands. The organization is a unique combination of private equity, holding company and operating entity. We continue to expand and are proud of the prominent market position of our brands.
Come join an exceptionally talented team of engineers, designers, product and business builders. HQ is located in sunny Santa Monica, California with growing teams in New York, and across cities in the US and Latin America.
Your Role at MediaLab
We are looking for an experienced and talented Product Designer to join the WorldStar Hip Hop and Amino team. This role will work closely with the product and development teams to shape engaging digital experiences.
What You'll Do
- Lead design projects across the entire product lifecycle, including product launches.
- Rapidly produce concepts and prototypes, with the experience to know when to apply pixel-perfection and when to focus on low-fidelity designs.
- Create polished and visually appealing designs for web and mobile.
- Conduct user research and synthesize findings into product and design strategies.
- Lead cross-functional idea generation sessions and brainstorms.
- Present designs and ideas to partners and stakeholders.
- Collaborate with engineering to balance design and technical implementation trade-offs.
- Partner with the product and data teams to create UI/UX A/B tests for validating designs.
What We're Looking For
- Strong product design skills with a focus on user-centered design methodologies
- Experience working in an agile project environment with distributed teams
- Ability to think at a high level about product strategy
- Experience designing and solving for mobile application
- Proficiency in Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, Photoshop, CSS and/or other design tools
- Proficiency in mixpanel, google analytics, looker,and/or other user analytics tools
- English proficiency
At MediaLab, we rely on a range of backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. We value diversity, and we’re proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity workplace.
Top Skills
What We Do
@MediaLab we build, acquire & grows internet brands.
Driven by our mission to build community among our social media and mobile platforms, we invest in shared services and programmatic monetization through our social media exchange to connect purposeful brands with our vast audience of 95M+ Monthly Users (& growing).
Assembly Exchange is our owned and operated social media exchange providing programmatic access to diverse and elusive social audiences via our portfolio of owned & operated social networks including Kik, WorldStarHipHop, Amino Apps, Genius, Imgur and more.
MediaLab HQ is based in Santa Monica, California, with a growing presence in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil & broader Latin America.
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There are so many startups out there. What makes MediaLab so special?
1. We're small but tenacious. Motivated & hungry. Excited by the growth we've seen each year since our founding.
2. You see the day in and day out impact of YOUR work.
3. No sitting in a corner working on a tiny fraction of something impactful. Come here and actually OWN stuff.
