Product Designer at Envato – Remote AU/NZ Role — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
Envato explicitly offers employees the option to work from another remote location for up to 3 months per year — a genuine travel perk that sets this role apart from typical office jobs. The role is described as flexible and globally connected, suggesting meaningful async-friendly practices are in place.
The position is based in Australia or New Zealand, meaning your employment contract and timezone expectations will likely anchor around AEST/NZST. Day-to-day collaboration with a global team may require some overlap with Australian business hours, which limits pure timezone flexibility — but the 3-month remote work allowance lets you temporarily relocate to a compatible timezone.
- Lisbon (WET/WEST): An 8–10 hour gap from AEST makes real-time collaboration difficult, but the 3-month window could work with careful scheduling. Cost of living is moderate — expect ~€1,800–2,200/month for a comfortable nomad setup.
- Bali, Indonesia: Only 1–3 hours behind AEST, making it an ideal temporary base. Affordable living (~$1,200–1,500 USD/month). Indonesia's digital nomad visa (E33G) is available for stays up to 6 months.
- Chiang Mai, Thailand: 3 hours behind AEST — very workable. Costs around $1,000–1,400 USD/month. Thailand's LTR visa or METV could cover the 3-month window.
The home office budget and learning stipends are practical wins for remote setups. There's no mention of a coworking or equipment allowance beyond the home office budget, so confirm specifics before booking a coworking space abroad.
Have you made something beautiful because you wanted it to exist?
Maybe you've built a small creative tool. Made an interface behave in a way we haven't seen before. Used AI to turn an idea into something people can actually play with.
You've got a strong eye, ideas of your own and work to show for it. You might not have held a product design job yet.
We're looking for a designer with exceptional visual craft, ideas of their own and the AI skills to turn them into working experiences. We'd like to see what you're making.
Make things for people who make things
At Envato, we're building tools that help creative professionals find, generate and refine assets for their projects. We want those tools to feel as creative and considered as the work people make with them.
We're looking for someone with fresh ideas who brings excellent visual craft and is already using AI to explore and build. You could be coming from uni, independent projects, freelance work or another creative discipline. We're not fussed about your current job title or background, but what we do care about is raw design talent who can bring something different to the team.
What you could get your hands on
You might prototype how a filmmaker saves a character reference and uses it across different shots. Explore how arranging and playing video clips could help someone see a story coming together. Or use motion, imagery and interaction to make an AI capability easier to understand and more enjoyable to use.
You'll bring different approaches, make them interactive and try them with the team and customers. Then you'll help develop the promising ones into experiences people can use.
This is work on the core product, not a separate collection of experiments that never makes it into customers' hands. This work matters.
Bring your eye. Build your product experience.
We want to see care in the typography, composition, hierarchy, motion and interaction. We're interested in how you direct and work with AI.
You should be curious about the person using what you've made, willing to share unfinished work, test things in the wild and able to change your approach when you learn something.
You'll work alongside experienced designers and engineers, with support on framing problems, testing ideas and getting work into the product. You won't be expected to independently lead a whole product area from day one, but you will have real work to own, feedback to help you develop it and the opportunity to contribute things we haven't yet thought of.
Show us what you're making
To be considered, send us something you've built using AI — a finished product, prototype, website or interactive tool — and something that shows your visual craft. They can be the same project. Uni work, client work and independent experiments are all welcome.
Add a few lines about your contribution, the tools you used and the details you sweated.
Life at Envato
We're a purpose-driven company and we've long embraced flexible, inclusive ways of working. We're proud of the connected culture we've built across our global team. Our values — Customer First, Build our Future, Make it Happen and Embrace Diversity — guide everything we do, shaping how we work and grow.
Our benefits include:
- Home office budget
- Team connection & learning budgets
- Wellbeing and study support
- Volunteer leave
- Generous paid parental leave
- Access to all Envato products
- Option to work from another remote location for up to 3 months per year
You can read more about us on our blog, including news of our acquisition by Shutterstock Inc in 2024.
A few things before you apply
We embrace diversity at Envato and want to ensure that everyone who applies for a role with us has an inclusive experience. Hiring for us isn't a tick-box exercise — we want to know what you're passionate about, what your lived experiences are and what you think you can add to the team.
We're also big believers in using AI, and that includes how we hire. We may use AI tools to help support our recruitment process, but they don't replace human judgement. Our people always make the final hiring decisions.
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