Staff Product Designer, Growth

Apartment List is seeking a Senior Product Designer who excels in both product thinking and visual design. The role involves driving renter acquisition through engaging design experiences and raising the visual standard across products and branding, while also leveraging AI tools to enhance design processes.

Responsibilities:

• Own the design of experiences that attract, convert, and delight renters
• Champion brand and expressive visual design
• Spot problems, move on them, and collaborate openly
• Keep pushing what AI makes possible

Requirements:

• 6-8 years shipping consumer or B2C digital products, end-to-end: from 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: you connect user needs to business outcomes and make smart tradeoffs
• Deep user empathy and excellent collaboration skills across product, engineering, data, and marketing
• Curious about AI design tools and actively using them to move faster
• An exceptional eye for visual design: Motion, and brand expression are how you think, not flourishes you add at the end
• Brand design fluency: you understand the difference between rigidly applying a system and extending it with intent, and you know when to flag that the brand system itself should evolve
• Motion design sensibility: you can design and specify meaningful animations and micro-interactions, with a clear understanding of timing, easing, and attention
• High agency, low maintenance: you spot problems before they are assigned, form a point of view, and move
• A portfolio that shows authored work: not just usable, but visually exciting, with evidence across growth surfaces, brand expression, and visual craft
• Rive / Lottie / After Effects
• Cursor / Storybook / Claude Code / Vercel
• HTML / CSS / React
• Online marketplaces
• A/B testing and experimentation