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title: 'Product Designer at Fizz'
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# Product Designer at Fizz

- **Company:** Fizz
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $150k–$180k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fizz/22dc87aa-7737-467b-898e-0d50d71944b4

## Job description

## WHAT IS FIZZ

Fizz is the hottest Gen Z social platform in the world. Having started as America’s biggest college social app, Fizz now enables Gen Z globally to connect around shared experiences and identities. College Fizz communities feature a private, moderated feed of posts from verified students, making it the most entertaining and authentic way to experience student life.

Our newest product, Global Fizz, brings together Gen Z both domestically and internationally, providing a space to connect around the 99% of life not represented on entertainment platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Fizz is on a mission to bring social back to social media.

## What We've Done

We first launched Fizz at Stanford in July 2021 and have since seen >95% of undergraduates join the app, half of whom use Fizz every day. Since raising a $25M Series B in July 2023, we have established ourselves as the dominant social app across 700+ colleges, begun generating revenue through advertising, and started expanding beyond college communities.

Most recently, Fizz reached #1 overall on the App Store charts in Saudi Arabia.

Where We're Going

We have three primary goals for 2026:

- Continue expanding across the entire U.S. college market
- Accelerate revenue growth through our advertising business
- Rapidly expand beyond college students, both domestically and internationally

## About the role

Fizz is hiring a Product Designer who will own design end-to-end across every surface, feature, and market. This is a high-ownership role at a consumer social app built for Gen Z, where how something feels is just as important as what it does. We're looking for someone with exceptional taste, a deep intuition for what feels fun and culturally alive to young users, and the rigor to see every design through to its last edge case.

You'll work directly with the Head of Product and partner closely with engineering to ship experiences that feel considered, delightful, and unmistakably Fizz.

Scope

Sole product designer — all features, all markets, all platforms

## What you'll do

- Own product design end-to-end across the Fizz app, from concept through engineering handoff, for both US and international markets.
- Take a PRD and explore the full solution space: generate multiple distinct design directions, articulate the tradeoffs of each, and collaborate with the PM to land on the right one
- Design every layer of a feature—including interactions, transitions, loading, error, and empty states—while identifying cross-product dependencies before they become engineering issues.
- Present designs with clear rationale, incorporate feedback without defensiveness, and iterate quickly to help the team make informed tradeoff decisions.
- Stay deeply plugged into what's resonating culturally with Gen Z — in the US and globally — and bring that lens to every design decision
- Use AI and rapid prototyping to explore ideas, build high-fidelity interactions, and communicate implementation intent clearly to engineering.
- Incorporate user research, data, and feedback loops into design iterations

## What we're looking for

- A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional taste — specifically for consumer mobile products that feel fun, alive, and native to how young people use their phones
- Deep experience designing for Gen Z; you have an intuitive sense of what's cool, what's cringe, and what's going to land
- Strong consumer social background — you've designed for feeds, reactions, sharing, notifications, or other social mechanics at scale
- Obsessive attention to detail — the kind of person who notices a misaligned pixel in a shipped build and can't let it go
- A structured design process—you explore multiple directions, articulate tradeoffs, and design every state, flow, and edge case.
- Low ego around your work — you can separate attachment to a specific solution from commitment to the best outcome, and you make the people around you better at making decisions
- Strong presentation skills; you can walk a room through a design and make the tradeoffs legible to both engineers and non-designers
- Comfort operating as a solo designer; you're self-directed and don't need a design org around you to do your best work
- Proficiency with Figma and familiarity with the new generation of AI design and prototyping tools
- Deep understanding of mobile product design, including platform conventions, system behaviors, performance constraints, human interface guidelines, and how designs translate into native code

Bonus points

- Experience designing for international or culturally diverse markets, including RTL languages
- Some motion design or prototyping chops — you can communicate interaction intent beyond static screens
- Familiarity with native mobile development
- You've shipped something Gen Z users actually use and love

Not a fit if

- Your portfolio skews enterprise, B2B, or utility — we need someone with genuine consumer product instincts
- You need a large design team or extensive process to do your best work
- You hand off wireframes and consider design done — completeness of handoff matters a lot here

## COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

- Base salary: $150,000–$180,000, depending on experience
- Meaningful equity with significant upside
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Health and wellness benefits, including One Medical memberships, fertility coverage, and Talkspace
- Daily catered lunch and a fully stocked office

## About Fizz

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Fizz is a private, authenticated social networking platform that connects college students with their hyperlocal campus communities through anonymous posts, feeds, and a marketplace.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; latest SAFE investment with a $200M valuation cap)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA (primary office at 584 Broadway; also has an office in Palo Alto, CA)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Ashton Cofer (Co-Founder & CTO) and Teddy Solomon (Co-Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Social networking platforms
- Target customers: B2C – college and university students (currently 800+ campuses onboarded, 1M+ US users)
- Mission or purpose statement: “Redefine the definition of a true social network” by creating safe, authentic, hyperlocal communities, starting with college.

## Products & Services
- **Fizz App**: A mobile social platform (iOS) where verified students can post anonymously, share photos/videos/polls/confessions, scroll a “for you” feed, and buy/sell items via an in-app marketplace. Features include community-based moderation and direct messaging.
- **Fizz Advertising**: Branded polls, native app takeovers, in-feed ads, and audience targeting (by campus, state, college tier, age, etc.). Early advertisers include Sony Pictures, Amazon, Perplexity, Kalshi, Quizlet, and Cerca.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $200M valuation cap on the most recent SAFE investment (date undisclosed; ~2026). Not publicly traded.
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue ~$4.5M (estimated); Total Funding ~$42.25M ($41.5M per Tracxn).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: New Enterprise Associates (led Series A), Owl Ventures (led Series B), Rakesh Mathur (led Seed), and an undisclosed strategic round with celebrities, creators, and tech execs.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 75 employees (+5.5% YoY); headcount is growing despite slight monthly dip.
  - 2.2M+ global downloads, 1M+ monthly active users, ~50% daily active usage.
  - Expanded internationally to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in early 2026; average user age in Middle East is 25.
  - Revenue positive (first time for a free social platform); building out ad sales team.
  - Hired Andrew Zalk (ex-Flipboard) as Head of Business Solutions to scale advertising.
  - Planning to expand beyond college in the US by 2027.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Authentic hyperlocal focus**: Verified .edu email login ensures a trusted, campus-specific community – reminiscent of early Facebook.
- **Privacy & moderation**: Anonymous posting with full identity control and a combination of AI + human moderators. Rated 18+ on App Store (no high schoolers).
- **Engagement moat**: Strong daily active usage (50% of active users every day) and virality within college networks.
- **Advertiser appeal**: Direct access to Gen Z in a brand-safe, authenticated environment with granular targeting; already attracting major entertainment, AI, and finance brands.

## Strategic Focus
- **Advertising revenue**: Scaling the ad sales team and account management to turn Fizz into a sustainable advertising business (currently generating revenue).
- **Global expansion**: Deepening presence in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait) and piloting subscription plans for that region.
- **Beyond college**: Preparing to launch Fizz for the broader post-graduate “real world” in 2027, targeting users aged 18–30+.
- **Product evolution**: Experimenting with direct messaging features, subscription tiers, and new user behaviors (e.g., using the platform for local discovery in cities).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven team of ~75 people working to “make social media social again” – fast-paced, startup environment with roots at Stanford.
- **Office & flexibility**: HQ in New York City (584 Broadway) and a Palo Alto office; likely hybrid/remote-friendly given small team and engineering roles (lead iOS engineer, etc.).
- **Growth opportunities**: Early-stage company with aggressive expansion plans (ad sales, global markets, new verticals) – employees can shape a product that could become the next major social network.
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Work on a high-traffic consumer app (2.2M+ downloads); engineering team is small but impactful; founder-led with deep product involvement.
- **Active hiring**: Currently recruiting a User Acquisition Manager; frequent past hires from top universities and companies like Starbucks, Target, and Deloitte.

## Sources
1. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fizzsocial)
2. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/fizz-social/__mbUB8ZfUv_1-USbOsvAjRpThIwgcWPg7VXu65SrH1Do)
3. [businessinsider.com](https://www.businessinsider.com/fizz-college-social-app-global-growth-advertising-venture-capital-2026-7)
4. [fizz.social](https://fizz.social/)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fizz)

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