
Staff Product Designer
Apartment List Remote (đşđ¸ United States of America)
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 teamâs 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
About Apartment List
At Apartment List, renting is personal. We're a company built by renters for renters, dedicated to finding renters a home they love for the value they deserve. With over 6 million rental units on our platform, our technology instantly matches renters to curated apartments to create a highly personalized, guided, and stress-free rental search experience.
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