Staff Product Designer, Growth

What You'll Do

• Drive renter acquisition and engagement through design
• Own the design of experiences that attract, convert, and delight renters
• Shape how people first encounter Apartment List through interactive, shareable, and visually rich touchpoints
• Raise visual craft across product and brand
• Champion brand and expressive visual design
• Spot opportunities to improve the product beyond immediate scope
• Spot problems, form a point of view, and act
• Communicate thinking clearly and early; present with conviction and take feedback with grace
• Experiment with new AI tools and share discoveries with the team

Requirements

• 6-8 years shipping consumer or B2C digital products end-to-end (problem framing and research through detailed UI and launch)
• Mastery of Figma including components, auto layout, variables, and prototyping
• Strong design systems fluency
• Product strategy chops: connecting user needs to business outcomes and making smart tradeoffs
• Deep user empathy and excellent collaboration skills across product, engineering, data, and marketing
• Actively using AI design tools to move faster
• Exceptional eye for visual design: motion and brand expression are core to thinking
• Brand design fluency: understanding when to apply vs. evolve a system
• Motion design sensibility: designing and specifying meaningful animations and micro-interactions with clear understanding of timing, easing, and attention
• High agency: spotting problems before assigned, forming a point of view, and moving
• Portfolio showing authored work that is visually exciting with evidence across growth surfaces, brand expression, and visual craft

Nice to Have

• Rive / Lottie / After Effects
• Cursor / Storybook / Claude Code / Vercel
• HTML / CSS / React
• Online marketplaces experience
• A/B testing and experimentation experience