Lead Product Designer

Artsy is on a mission to expand the art market to support more artists and art in the world. As a Lead Product Designer, you’ll play a key role in shaping and elevating our customer experience, ensuring collectors and newcomers can seamlessly discover, follow, and purchase artworks. This role requires strategic, user-centered thinking and exceptional design craft to deliver engaging, frictionless experiences that help position Artsy as essential to people collecting art.

You’ll work on complex design challenges that directly impact how people first encounter Artsy and the art world, designing experiences that move casual browsers into engaged collectors. This is an exciting opportunity to drive innovative design solutions that expand our reach beyond traditional art market participants.

You will be part of Product Design, a collaborative group of designers embedded within a multidisciplinary Product organization. People in this group work as part of a team alongside Product, Data, and Engineering to drive user-centered decisions and deliver meaningful impact. Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Design, you will contribute to shaping the product roadmap, developing design solutions to high-impact problems of varying certainty—driving iterative, test-and-learn approaches in ambiguous problem spaces, while confidently accelerating toward focused outcomes in more established domains.

You will also collaborate with peers to develop, evolve and continuously improve our design practice and infrastructure.

We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer to transform Artsy from a destination for existing art enthusiasts into the discovery portal for new collectors. This role combines strategic thinking with hands‑on craft, sitting at the intersection of customer acquisition, brand building, and AI‑powered personalisation; designing and delivering the top‑of‑funnel experiences that introduce people to the art world.

You’ll be designing for two critical audiences: existing art world participants who discover us through SEO, and future collectors who don’t yet know they’re interested in art. This is about shifting from tactical SEO optimisation to strategic traffic and acquisition thinking.

Design‑led customer acquisition

Transform high‑traffic pages from conversion‑focused to discovery‑focused experiences

Design acquisition strategies for audiences currently outside the art world

Partner with marketing to create cohesive brand experiences beyond traditional product boundaries

Bringing qualitative and quantitative data together to continuously improve the customer experience

Discovery and journey design

Design experiences that capture and nurture different stages of art interest and knowledge

Create seamless transitions between discovery, education, and transaction moments

Build systems that guide people into art collecting regardless of their starting point

AI‑accelerated design practice

Experiment with AI tools to accelerate design iteration and testing cycles

Build rapid prototypes to test how AI‑augmented content and summaries might affect user engagement patterns

Design and build experiments to help us learn what information drives discovery versus conversion

Brand building through product

Ensure product experiences reinforce brand positioning for unfamiliar users

Create cohesive narratives that position Artsy as the definitive art discovery platform

Help develop and evolve visual brand identity, product UI and design system in collaboration with the other designers, Brand & Engineering teams

We’re at an inflection point. We’ve built a strong infrastructure for the existing art market, but our biggest growth opportunity lies in expanding the market itself; introducing new people to art collecting and making the art world more accessible.

This role is critical to Artsy because it helps us design the front door to that experience. You’ll be creating the first impression for people who might become lifelong collectors, working on some of our highest‑traffic, highest‑value pages, and setting the foundation for how we attract and engage entirely new…