Apartment ListRemote
Staff Product Designer
United States
Full-time
1 week ago
$163,000 - $197,000 USD
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
Product design experienceAI-native mindsetSystems thinkingHybrid craft skillsFront-end technologiesCuriosityCollaborationMentoringCommunicationAIPrototyping
About this role
Apartment List is focused on rethinking the experience of renting from the ground up. As a Staff Product Designer, you will lead product design efforts, creating user-centered solutions while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to ensure design quality and alignment.
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:
- 8+ years designing and shipping consumer or platform products across mobile, desktop, and web, ideally with experience working on a two-sided marketplace
- 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
- Strong interaction, visual, and motion design skills, with a love for rapid prototyping and iterative execution
- You excel in loosely defined problem spaces, especially emerging AI surfaces, and can simplify complex systems into intuitive experiences
- Proven experience contributing to and evolving design systems that scale across teams and products
- Ability to frame problems, define success, and drive outcomes through clear communication and cross-functional collaboration
- Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML/CSS/JS or frameworks) and a strong partnership mindset with engineering
- Proactive, inclusive partner who brings others in early and leads through influence
- Generous with feedback, open to critique, and committed to raising the quality of the team's work