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Staff Product Designer

Apartment List Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)

Remote $124,200 - $197,000 Full-time Senior

The Staff Product Designer will lead product design from initial problem framing through polished execution, focusing on creating scalable, user-centered solutions across different surfaces by thinking in systems. They will also advance the design system, leverage AI tools for exploration and synthesis, and mentor other designers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead product design from problem framing through polished execution, with clear hypotheses and measurable outcomes
  • Design scalable, user-centered solutions across surfaces, thinking in systems, not screens
  • Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure design-to-code alignment and build feasible, modular components
  • Leverage AI tools to rethink how we design and ship, using them to speed up exploration, critique, content creation, and synthesis across the product lifecycle
  • Advance our design system in partnership with engineers, balancing consistency with flexibility
  • Prototype ideas quickly and at various levels of fidelity to unlock thinking and drive alignment
  • Facilitate workshops, critiques, and collaborative sessions that energize and unblock
  • Mentor other designers through thoughtful feedback and modeling high craft standards

Requirements

  • Staff-level experience: 8+ years designing and shipping consumer or platform products across mobile, desktop, and web, ideally with experience working on a two-sided marketplace
  • AI-native mindset: You think of AI as part of the product development system, not just a design aid, and use our AI tooling to strengthen design-to-code workflows and cross-functional execution
  • Hybrid craft skills: Strong interaction, visual, and motion design skills, with a love for rapid prototyping and iterative execution
  • Comfort with ambiguity: You excel in loosely defined problem spaces, especially emerging AI surfaces, and can simplify complex systems into intuitive experiences
  • Systems thinking: Proven experience contributing to and evolving design systems that scale across teams and products
  • Strong product thinking: Ability to frame problems, define success, and drive outcomes through clear communication and cross-functional collaboration
  • Implementation-minded: Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML/CSS/JS or frameworks) and a strong partnership mindset with engineering
  • Highly collaborative: Proactive, inclusive partner who brings others in early and leads through influence
  • Low ego, high bar: Generous with feedback, open to critique, and committed to raising the quality of the team’s work

Benefits

  • Make magic in the move by designing experiences that feel smart, personal, and radically easier
  • Have unapologetically high standards for craft, clarity, and impact
  • Use speed to our advantage by reinventing how we design and ship with AI, delivering quality quickly and iterating fast
  • Dare to diverge, welcoming new ideas, tools, and perspectives
  • Are proudly remote-first and deeply invested in DEI, learning, and long-term growth

Key Skills

Product design Systems thinking AI-native mindset Hybrid craft skills Interaction design Visual design Motion design Rapid prototyping Iterative execution Front-end technologies Design-to-code alignment Modular components AI tools Design systems Collaboration Communication Feedback Critique Mentorship Leadership HTML CSS JS Frameworks

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