Design Lead

Were quickly growing and super excited for you to join us!

Why Topsort Why now

Topsort is changing the way Retail Media works. By joining our scaling team youll feel your impact from day 1. The processes and messaging you build today will be a critical part of our foundation as we accelerate toward 200 Topsorters worldwide and your innovations will leave a lasting mark on the industry as a whole. Retail Media is on the verge of a new era and Topsort is gathering the ecosystem together to shape a brighter future. Joining us now youll work directly alongside our co-founders and founding members to bring on Retail Media 3.0. If youre looking to define your career as something greater than yourself come scale with us.

What its like to work at Topsort

Our team is all about straightforward communication embracing feedback without taking it personally and fostering a super collaborative environment. Its a sports team thats hyper focused on winning collaborative internally and competitive externally - never the other way around. We thrive on working in the open lifting each other up and getting things done with a sense of urgency. Were the kind of team that loves making bold choices sharing extraordinary opinions and maintaining a 100 mph pace. No endless meetings here if it can be done today were all about getting it done today.

What is this role like

Were looking for a creative hands-on and cross-functionalDesign Leadto own and elevate design at Topsort across bothproductandbrand. This role is perfect for someone who can zoom between pixels and systems detail and direction and whos excited to shape the visual identity of a fast-growing adtech company from the ground up.

Youll set the quality bar and work directly with product marketing and leadership to ensure our user experiences are not only functional but elegant and cohesive. Youll guide everything from feature-level UI/UX to brand campaigns and visual storytelling making sure Topsort looks and feels like the category-defining product were building.

This is a high-impact hands-on role for a designer whos ready to lead ship and scale and who thrives in early-stage product-led environments.

You will:

• Lead and evolve Topsorts design function spanning both product UX and brand design
• Work hands-on in Figma to create intuitive delightful user experiences for our platform APIs and tools
• Define and maintain a cohesive design system that balances speed scalability and craft
• Mentor and support a small team of designers fostering collaboration and growth
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product engineering marketing and go-to-market teams to align design decisions with business goals
• Translate complex concepts (auctions APIs data flows) into clear user-friendly interfaces and communications
• Shape and refine Topsorts visual identity across touchpointsfrom the app to the website to event collateral
• Balance speed with precision making smart trade-offs in a fast-moving startup environment
• Champion design quality and usability helping the team think in systems not just screens

What (we think) you need to be successful- were open to not checking all the boxes and be proven wrong by outlier candidates as well!

• 6 years of experience across product design and brand/visual design with a strong portfolio that demonstrates both
• Experience designing and shipping complex digital products ideally in B2B SaaS or technical domains
• Comfortable working with and leading a small team including mentoring direction-setting and feedback
• Fluent in tools like Figma and comfortable owning systems prototypes and design documentation
• Strong understanding of interaction design layout and visual hierarchy
• Able to think and speak cross-functionally working with engineers marketers and execs alike
• A builders mindset: you seek feedback move quickly and focus on delivering impact
• A passion for clarity simplicity and polish in every design decision
• Excitement about owning a zero-to-one design journey and influencing company-wide aesthetics and UX

About Topsort

At Topsort we believe in the mission of democratizing the secret technologies of the walled gardens and creating a privacy-first cookie-free world of clean advertising with modern tech friendly products and AI. We believe in making advertising intuitive intelligent and genuinely cool without any of the creepy ads or cookie-obsession (well maybe just the chocolate ones). In a rapidly changing industry were on a mission to democratize monetization access for all and ensure that advertising doesnt leave any brand or seller feeling confused or overwhelmed

Today Topsort has 5 major hubs worldwide and employees in 13 countries including Menlo Park Boston Santiago Chile Sao Paulo Brazil Barcelona Spain and Sydney Australia. We are a truly global company that was born in the pandemic thats had rapid growth since out of a genius product a customer-first mentality and a hardworking team of talented individuals. Since our founding in 2021 weve gained customers in retail marketplaces and delivery apps in 40 countries and quickly approaching the #1 position in the industry.

Do you enjoy a fast-paced environment Do you like seeing your work create real-time impact being part of a rocket ship from the very beginning Lets do the unimaginable - lets make ads clean and cool again with AI and modern technology.

• Deep dive into details: Professionals who are not content with superficial answers and dive deeply into the details to uncover root causes and optimal solutions.
• Team first: A low need for individual recognition always prioritizing collective results over personal credit.
• You thrive with ambiguity: Exceptional ability to tackle open-ended problems in unstructured environments turning chaos into structured innovation.
• Adaptability: Willingness to learn mentor lead and follow as the situation demands fostering growth at all levels.
• Urgency: A disproportionate sense of urgency in execution while keeping scalability and the creation of replicable processes in mind to ensure long-term success.
• Curiosity: Genuinely curious individuals who can quickly learn difficult concepts and apply them effectively.

Do you sound like the right fit Lets dive right in!