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# Product Designer (User Research &  Interaction Design) at Ladders

- **Company:** Ladders
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $50k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-06-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/ladders/f5d9f3f1-f154-4ba1-837e-0cb240c2aa5d

## Job description

At Ladders, we’re building the most effective AI products in job search. We are at the forefront of using AI to get our users more interviews.

As the leading innovator in our space, we’re shipping industry-first and industry-best products:

- The first AI-generated resumes
- One-click resume customization for every job
- Instant, personalized cover letters that feel human
- LinkedIn profile optimization that drives responses
- With more great innovations to come - built by you!

Every week, we ship products that help people advance their careers — faster, smarter, and with less friction. Our products help professionals stand out, get seen, and land interviews that lead to better careers.

We work in tight, high-output teams that care deeply about craft, clarity, and customer outcomes.

If you’re excited to build ambitious, high-leverage tools with a team that moves fast and ships often — we’d love to meet you.

We’re looking for an end-to-end product designer to bring the voices of our users to the table and work collaboratively with engineers to achieve business goals. You should be comfortable with user research, visual UI design, and designing complex UX flows.

Responsibilities:

- Plan and execute user research, low-fi ideation, high-fi designs, and prototypes
- Contribute to high-level product decisions and execute on product roadmap features
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to assess constraints, de-risk solutions, and provide support during implementation
- Consider how design impacts user behavior and metrics/analytics
- Present design work and research findings to key stakeholders, with an emphasis on simplicity, intuitive designs and an iterative approach
- Deliver customer facing and internal web-platforms as well as emails, mobile apps and browser extensions
- Work with cross-functional partners to help define the roadmap within your product area
- Facilitate and participate in product review and product brainstorms
- Receive and provide feedback on designs and strategic product decisions
- Develop and maintain detailed design documentation including specifications, redlines, and style guides
- Use metrics to analyze and continuously improve the user experience

Requirements:

- Proven experience in conducting qualitative and quantitative research, including A/B testing best practices, surveys, usability tests, and user interviews.
- Experience translating research findings into strategic narratives
- Highly proficient with industry-standard tools (Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Dovetail, etc.)
- 7+ years of experience working in UX/UI/product design
- A top-notch design portfolio demonstrating process, outcomes, and impact is a plus - particularly in shipped, successful products
- Experience designing for a responsive mobile and desktop web experience
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excited about working in a fast-paced, agile startup environment

## About Ladders

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ladders is a premium job platform that connects highly experienced professionals with $100K+ job opportunities using data-driven tools and curated listings.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped/self-funded; no disclosed funding rounds)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2003
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Online job search, recruitment technology, career services
- Target customers: B2C – experienced professionals earning $100K–$500K+; B2B – employers and recruiters seeking qualified senior talent
- Mission or purpose: “To bring qualified professionals and hiring teams together fast” ([theladders.com/about-us](https://www.theladders.com/about-us))

## Products & Services
- **Job Search Platform**: Curated database of 1M+ jobs all paying $100K+ with salary ranges, company insights, and application tracking. (B2C web platform)
- **Apply4Me**: A premium service where Ladders experts handle job applications on behalf of members, saving an average of 18 minutes per application. (Service)
- **Resume Services**: ATS-friendly resume writing and optimization tools to help candidates land interviews. (Service)
- **Browser Extension**: A magic extension that automates applications on LinkedIn and 208,888 corporate career sites. (Browser add-on)
- **Career Advice & News**: 5–7 new articles per week covering job search research, industry trends, and professional development. (Content)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $30M (as of latest available data); 10M+ community members
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed; 22,000+ employers actively use the platform
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 41 employees (+9.4% YoY); active job postings increased by 65.2% quarterly; workforce distributed across 9 countries

## Competitive Advantages
- **Niche focus on $100K+ jobs**: Ladders exclusively targets the high-end job market (25% of all jobs, ~50% of US & Canada income), reducing noise for senior professionals.
- **Data-driven tools**: Apply4Me, salary transparency, and applicant qualification insights differentiate from general job boards.
- **Vetted listings**: All postings are screened for spam and include salary estimates, saving time for both job seekers and recruiters.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding the Apply4Me automation and AI-powered matching capabilities to further reduce time-to-application for members.
- Growing the employer base and deepening data analytics to provide better insights on compensation and hiring trends.
- Continuing to publish daily career advice to maintain engagement and thought leadership in the premium job space.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Rated 3.7/5 on Glassdoor (70% recommend to a friend); employees praise work-life balance (3.9) and culture (3.8). The company is “deeply technology-driven” with about half the workforce in engineering, product, or design roles.
- **Work policy**: Offers hybrid and remote opportunities; multiple offices in New York City with a distributed team across 9 countries.
- **Engineering focus**: Technical team comprises 14 of 41 employees; roles include Software Engineer (average $159,565/yr), Technical Lead, and VP of Engineering.
- **Perks**: Emphasis on building products that have real impact on users’ careers; collaborative environment with a flat hierarchy.

## Sources
1. [theladders.com/about-us](https://www.theladders.com/about-us)
2. [linkedin.com/company/ladders](https://linkedin.com/company/ladders)
3. [glassdoor.com/Reviews/Ladders-Reviews-E39451.htm](https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Ladders-Reviews-E39451.htm)
4. [theladders.com](https://www.theladders.com/)
5. [jobs.lever.co/ladders](https://jobs.lever.co/ladders)

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