Mobile Product Designer

Who we are

Yubo is the Social Discovery app to make new friends and hang out online. By eliminating likes and follows, we empower our users to create genuine connections and show up as their true selves.

We've pioneered a new way for Gen Z to socialize online, and with millions of active users, our goal is to redefine how we connect today and tomorrow.

Our team is international, multicultural and deeply committed to its mission. As the leading platform to socialize online, we have a special responsibility to build a safe digital space for our community. Safety is embedded in our DNA, and our proactive approach focuses on user protection, support, and education. We also work closely with the broader technology industry to share our knowledge and NGOs create industry-leading child protection standards.

Join us in this exciting journey and help us shape the future of social interactions!

About this role

With our rapidly growing user base and exciting initiatives on the horizon, we’re at a pivotal moment in defining the future of Yubo. We’re looking for a Mobile Product Designer who can move fast, own KPIs, and turn hypotheses into high-impact premium experiences. If you’ve designed for revenue on a mobile social app, this is your next playground !

As a Mobile Product Designer, you’ll report directly to the Chief Design Officer (CDO) and collaborate closely with Product Managers and Tech leads in a tight partnership as co-leads within the Monetization squad. You’ll also work alongside an enthusiastic team of developers, marketers, and product stakeholders, all united by a shared mission to redefine social discovery.

Your responsibilities

• Co-Lead a Product Squad: Partner with your Product Manager and Tech Lead as the trio steering your squad. Work hand-in-hand with developers, QA, and other stakeholders to bring your experiment to life. 

• Design End-to-End Solutions: Own the design process from ideation to pixel-perfect. You’ll create intuitive, engaging interfaces that not only look great but also drive key outcomes like user engagement and revenue.

• Drive Experimentation: Continuously test impactful ideas through A/B experiments and rapid testing. 

• Discovery & Data: Continuously analyze usage data (Amplitude, in-house tools, data team collaboration), conduct research, and perform competitor analysis to guide design decisions.

• Evolve the Design System: Contribute to maintaining and improving Yubo’s design system for consistency and scalability across the app.

Who you are

• You have > 2 years of experience as a Product Designer, ideally in a startup or scale-up environment.

• You have experience in shipping monetized features and can demonstrate their impact on ARPU, retention or conversion.

• Strong skills in interface design, usability principles, and design systems. 

• A product-oriented mindset: You understand the importance of data and business requirements and their impact on design without sacrificing user experience.

• You’re comfortable working in fast-paced, collaborative environments and excel at communicating with cross-functional teams, ideally in a squad system.

• A strong sense of ownership and autonomy, balanced with the ability to give and receive feedback constructively.

• A passion for designing products that make a difference in the lives of millions of users.

Within a month, you will

• Discover all parts of Yubo’s app and our different squads, as well as get a better understanding of the current userbase.

• Fully integrate within the Monetization squad

• Start exploring all of Yubo’s visual assets, get a better understanding of our brand to prepare proper alignment on all future features.

Within 3 months, you will

• Have designed and launched your first high impact feature and new premium flows that increase conversion and retention of paying users, from initial concepts to final implementation.

• Monitor engagement and profitability metrics to start iterating on your freshly released feature.

• Measurably increase ARPU through new premium loops

Within 6 months, you will

• Work on refreshing all of Yubo’s visual assets, including icons, colours and layout, to ensure brand consistency and a modern, engaging aesthetic.

• Explore how AI can revolutionize social discovery and create new monetization opportunities !

The recruitment process

• Phone screen with a TAM

• First interview with Jérémie (CDO)

• Technical test and debrief with the Product Design Team

• Culture Fit interviews