# Staff Product Designer, Growth

**Company:** [Apartment List](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/apartment-list)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $138k – $197k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Figma, Design Systems, Prototyping, Motion Design, Brand Design, Product Strategy, User Research, Ai Design Tools, Lottie, After Effects, React, A/B Testing
**Posted:** 2026-06-10

> Staff Product Designer focused on growth, owning end-to-end design for renter acquisition and engagement. Requires 6-8 years of consumer product experience, Figma mastery, strong visual craft, and active use of AI tools.

## Job Description

## 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

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