Rules to Live by and Break
01

Be your own Customer

Squarespace is built using Squarespace. Our entire business relies on the same platform and tools our customers pay us for. (BTW this blog is also built on SQSP)

02

Good Work Takes Time

We respect the creative process and pursue long term ideas without fear. We only release our products when we feel they meet our standards.

03

Empower Individuals

Squarespace believes in the power of the individual to create great things. This is what our product enables and our marketing celebrates.

04

Design is not a luxury

Good design means coalescing hundreds of details into a package that is simple and beautiful. From the tools we create, to the experience our customers have, Squarespace strives for excellence in design and iterates relentlessly in order to achieve that ideal.

Our offices around the world

NYC
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The team
in a nutshell

Squarespace’s Creative team lives at the heart of the company’s mission to help people with creative ideas succeed. The Creative team controls every aspect of how we show up in the world, from the design of our products, to our advertising campaigns and social channels.

We put a premium on visual beauty and storytelling and have assembled both the tools and the team to execute ALL WORK in-house.

The SQSP Team

Ricky Vega
Yaël Bienenstock
Ness Higson
Lionel Taurus
Melike Turgut
Marvin Schwaibold
Tom Sears
Adam Hartwig
Andrey Grabelnikov
Andrej Radisic
Chloe Harlig
Katie Flynn
Steven Neff
Megan Eckersley
Craig Reynolds
Szenia Zadvornykh

Ricky Vega

Ricky Vega is a Creative Production Manager currently overseeing Product Design at Squarespace. He works with teams to design, build, and ship beautiful products. Originally from Los Angeles, he currently resides in Brooklyn and has a passion for all things interactive and design. You can find him at Squarespace wearing all black and a fresh pair of Jordans.

Product Design

Yaël Bienenstock

Yaël Bienenstock is a Motion Designer originally from Brussels, Belgium. She started her career as a post-production artist in a studio in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. She is now working on the Web Concepts team at Squarespace, focusing on interactive design and making the web more playful and intuitive through beautiful motion.

Web Concepts

Ness Higson

After more years in the industry than he’d care to admit, Nessim joined Squarespace to both work on and build a product that can help people literally bring their dreams to life. A proposition that resonates with him daily. He crosses both brand and product worlds at Squarespace while also helping guide the web concepts team.

Web Concepts

Lionel Taurus

Lionel Taurus is a multidisciplinary Senior Web Designer from Guadeloupe in the Caribbean Islands. Working in the Squarespace Web Concepts team, he focuses on finding innovative ways to showcase user content on digital support and envisioning the future of web design and technologies for the platform.

Web Concepts

Melike Turgut

As a Web Designer on the Product Team, Melike does exactly that. She brings web design principles into the product world. Quite simply, she works in identifying the right functions, controls, layouts, and styling options that allow our users to create the most expressible and impactful websites on Squarespace.

Product Design

Marvin Schwaibold

Marvin Schwaibold is a graphic designer currently working on the web concepts team and brand consistency team. He focuses on building interactive components to enhance our platform and keep the brand consistent with a set of global guidelines. Marvin is originally from Germany where he worked foremost on visual identities and typography heavy projects.

Web Concepts

Tom Sears

Tom heads up the Web Design team and leads efforts across multiple streams of work within the organization, including visual design for all products, templates, brand consistency, growth, and design for Squarespace.com. He also manages members of the Web Concepts team to help define the future of our products.

Product Design

Adam Hartwig

Adam Hartwig is a Senior Design Technologist focusing on the blend between the creative and technical arts. Originally from the United Kingdom and in the industry for over a decade, Adam is a founding member of the Web Concepts team, where he strives to bring agency level interactive experiences to the fingertips of Squarespace customers.

Web Concepts

Andrey Grabelnikov

Andrey Grabelnikov is a Senior Product Designer currently working on the Design Platform team. He works on maintaining and evolving design systems. Originally from Ukraine where he had his own agency, he freelanced and worked remotely until he ended up in New York.

Product Design

Andrej Radisic

Andrej Radisic is a Product Designer working on the Presence team. He works closely with the mobile team as his passion is mobile experiences and mobile products. Born in Croatia, he has spent over ten years working with big brand names and small startups across the world in order to bring their products to life.

Product Design

Chloe Harlig

Chloe Harlig is a Senior Creative Recruiter focused on building Squarespace’s in-house Creative team, inclusive of Web Design, Product Design, and Brand. Originally from Alaska, Chloe is the only person who finds joy in the New York winters.

Creative Recruitment

Katie Flynn

Katie Flynn is a Producer on the Brand Creative team, originally from sunny San Diego. She produces everything from live action videos, to microsites, to installations. Outside of work, Katie loves to throw pottery on the wheel and spoil her cat, Bean.

Brand

Steven Neff

Steven originally joined the Squarespace Customer Care team in 2011 and for the last 8 years has built delightful experiences as a Product Designer. He’s a proud husband to a beautiful wife, father to an amazing kid, and owner of Rusty the cat.

Product Design

Megan Eckersley

Megan Eckersley is a Visual Designer on the brand design team originally from Las Vegas, NV. While at Squarespace, she’s worked on the Instagram refresh, microsites, events, and art direction for print ads.

Brand

Craig Reynolds

Craig Reynolds is currently the Senior Photographer at Squarespace,. Prior to Squarespace he spent the last 14 years living and working in NYC as a freelancer.

Brand

Szenia Zadvornykh

Szenia Zadvornykh is a creative developer on the Web Concepts team. Born in Russia, raised in the Netherlands, living in New York. He has over a decade of experience creating high end interactive content for the web.

Web Concepts