Senior Product Designer, Growth at beehiiv

About beehiiv

beehiiv is the all in one newsletter and creator platform powering the next generation of media companies and independent voices. We help creators and businesses launch, grow, and monetize newsletters, now serving tens of thousands of publishers and reaching hundreds of millions of readers monthly. With $30M+ ARR, 100% year over year growth, and a newly expanded product suite (ad network, website builder, paid tiers), we are entering our next phase of hypergrowth.

About the Role

As our Senior Product Designer (Growth), you will own design across the surfaces that shape how users onboard, activate, convert, and grow with beehiiv, including onboarding, activation, conversion, expansion, and retention. You will start by taking over our early onboarding journeys, bringing a fresh, experimentation first lens to some of the highest leverage moments in the user journey.

This role requires a deep understanding of growth and lifecycle design: translating ambiguous, often qualitative problems (why do users churn? why do they not upgrade? what is blocking activation?), coupled with analytics and quantitative insights into clear design hypotheses, shipping them fast, and iterating based on what the data tells you. You will work closely with Product, Growth, and Engineering, and alongside our two product designers who own the core platform experience. Note that compensation is dependent on experience, skills, and location.

What You Will Be Responsible For

• Own end to end design across onboarding, activation, upsells, expansion, and churn, the surfaces most directly tied to conversion and retention.
• Partner with Product and Growth to turn user research, support signals, and product data into design hypotheses, then design and ship experiments to test them.
• Redesign high friction moments in the funnel (for example the in app downgrade flow, trial to paid conversion, first time activation) with a clear focus on reducing churn and improving conversion.
• Work closely with our senior product designers to stay consistent with beehiiv's core design language while pushing a distinctly growth oriented, test and learn approach in your areas.
• Collaborate directly with engineering to scope design lift accurately and ship iteratively rather than waiting for perfection.
• Present your thinking, rationale, and trade offs to the product and leadership team, and incorporate feedback quickly.

What We Are Looking For

• 5+ years of experience as a product designer, ideally with meaningful time spent on growth, activation, lifecycle, or monetization surfaces (not just core product or feature design).
• A track record of designing for experimentation: comfortable scoping A/B tests, phased rollouts, and iterating quickly based on quantitative results, not just qualitative feedback.
• Ability to take a vague, high stakes problem (reducing churn, clarifying a downgrade flow, improving activation) and turn it into a crisp, testable design point of view.
• Excellent communication, listening, and writing skills, with the ability to clearly explain design rationale and trade offs to cross functional stakeholders, including leadership.
• Ability to read and analyze data, and use that to come up with hypotheses and inform your design decisions.
• Prior experience in the newsletter, media, publishing, or SaaS industry is a plus.
• Strong organizational skills: able to work independently with little direction when necessary.
• Genuine excitement about scaling a nascent platform.
• An ownership mentality.

Why This Role Might Be For You

• Join a fast growing start up and help define a brand new growth design practice from scratch.
• High impact and high visibility: your work shapes the first (and often last) impressions of every beehiiv user.
• You are autonomous and excited about owning projects end to end, from problem framing through shipped experiments.
• Excited about new challenges and executing creative solutions in an ambiguous, fast moving surface area.

Why This Role Might Not Be For You

• Not a traditional 9 to 5 position.
• Need to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• Must be comfortable with rapid iteration and frequent context switching.
• High expectations for both speed and quality.
• Must navigate complex organizational dynamics.

Our Values

Our values are not a poster on the wall, they are the bar. They guide how we operate, publicly and privately, and what we return to when making decisions. That is how we keep our team's momentum and how we hire and keep A players.

• There is no room for B players: the best makes everyone better.
• Maniacal sense of urgency: speed is our superpower.
• Say what you think with positive intent: disagree openly and give hard feedback directly, with the intent to help someone improve.
• User obsessed: every decision starts with one question: how does this add value for the user?
• Ego comes second, winning comes first: we are here to create the best outcome; the team comes before the individual.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock Options
• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) employer match
• Unlimited PTO (mandatory 10 days per year minimum)
• Annual in person team offsite
• Unlimited book budget
• Monthly Wellness Days (every third Friday of the month)

Compensation

USD 150,000 to 170,000 depending on experience.