Product Designer, Community

Position Details
Product Designer, Community
Contract, F/T

Summary
Gaia is a subscription streaming platform focused on empowering the evolution of consciousness. Our catalog includes over 8,000 original programs, licensed documentaries, and films spanning topics such as yoga, spirituality, wellness, and the esoteric.

We're seeking a Product Designer to help shape Community experiences that deepen connection between members, practices, and content. You'll design social and participatory experiences including discussion spaces, groups, live events, peer-to-peer interactions, and other community-driven features.

We value designers who balance strong visual craft with systems thinking, user empathy, and practical execution. This role requires someone who can work collaboratively, think strategically, and create thoughtful experiences in an evolving product environment.

While the primary focus will be Community, this role will also contribute to broader product experiences across the Gaia platform to help ensure a cohesive member experience.

At Gaia, soft skills are key to success. We seek candidates with strong interpersonal abilities – effective communication, teamwork, prioritization, and problem solving – who can adapt to change, manage conflicts with empathy, and collaborate well with diverse teams. While technical skills matter, we highly value those who build positive relationships, contribute to a supportive culture, and approach challenges with a solution-oriented mindset. If this sounds like you, you'll thrive in our dynamic environment.

Must be able to work on campus in Louisville, CO.
US citizenship or an existing work visa is required
Gaia subscribers strongly preferred
Non-smoker

Responsibilities
Design end-to-end community and social experiences across web and mobile
Create user flows, interaction patterns, and information architecture that support engagement and belonging
Contribute to and evolve Gaia's design system and visual language
Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and cross-functional stakeholders
Conduct user research, usability testing, and competitive analysis to inform design decisions
Use analytics and user insights to iterate on experiences and identify opportunities for improvement
Deliver clean, production-ready Figma files and collaborate with developers through implementation
Balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints in a fast-moving environment

Qualifications
5+ years of product design experience, preferably within growth-stage B2C companies
Demonstrated experience designing community, social, or engagement-driven experiences
Strong understanding of information architecture and interaction design
Experience designing responsive web and mobile applications
Proficiency in Figma and component-based design systems
Ability to leverage AI tools throughout the design process to support research, ideation, prototyping, and workflow efficiency
Strong visual design fundamentals including typography, layout, accessibility, and hierarchy
Experience conducting user research and applying data-informed design thinking
Strong communication and collaboration skills across disciplines
Comfortable working autonomously in ambiguous or early-stage product environments
Basic understanding of frontend development constraints and implementation workflows
Must be available to work onsite in Louisville, CO

Preferred Skills
Experience designing community platforms
Experience with AI/ML-driven product experiences
Passion for wellness, mindfulness, personal growth, or spirituality

This is an opportunity to work closely with executive leadership, collaborate directly with engineering, and help shape high-impact experiences used by a passionate member community.

The ideal candidate is thoughtful, collaborative, detail-oriented, and motivated to create meaningful digital experiences.

This is a contract to hire position.

Compensation
Type: Hourly
Range: $70 - $90 (USD)

More About Gaia
Gaia exists as a transformational network to empower a global conscious community.

Gaia (Nasdaq: GAIA) is a publicly traded company in Louisville, Colorado. We offer global video streaming of over 8,000 original series, shows, films, documentaries, and practices for conscious living to our members in over 190 countries. Our vast video library serves as a vessel for the community we seek to empower. We are not a subscription service that streams whatever pays our bills. Our content goes deep into select niches of Seeking Truth, Transformation, Alternative Health and Yoga channels. We often cover subjects that other media companies won't touch.

We expect you did explore Gaia's library of original shows, documentaries, and films. If our work on ancient wisdom, who are we, our true history, coverups, and metaphysics resonates, you might be a good fit for Gaia. We seek to hire and inspire employees who embrace our mission to empower a global conscious community, who hope their work empowers our community of inspired members, to be a catalyst of transformation. The best work we do every day is to remember our vision is "to empower the evolution of consciousness."

The perks of working collaboratively with a team dedicated to sharing this mission include an on-site gym; a beautiful solar-powered campus, complete with hiking and running trails, community garden, and a labyrinth; and an on-site, mostly organic café that serves breakfast and lunch daily including a full-service espresso bar featuring locally roasted coffee.

Full-time employees are offered alternative and traditional medical benefits including preventative coverage; as well as dental, vision, 401K, and life insurance.