Staff Product Designer

About The Role

Rec's platform spans programs, facilities, memberships, payments, and the admin tools that recreation organizations run their entire business on. As Platform Designer, you'll own design for this side of the product end to end — taking ambiguous, often messy operational problems ("our facility booking is confusing," "instructors can't tell what they're supposed to do") and turning them into flows that are simple for the humans running rec centers, leagues, and facilities, while staying coherent across a genuinely complex, multi-object system underneath. This isn't a role where a PM hands you a spec and you make it pretty. You'll go find the problem, define what v1 actually is, and stay with it through build and QA.

What You'll Do

• Own features end to end: research the problem, define information architecture and flows, take designs to high fidelity, write the spec, and stay engaged through engineering handoff and QA.
• Hold the full platform model in your head — programs, facilities, memberships, payments — and design in a way that keeps all of it coherent as the product grows.
• Take fuzzy, undefined problems and turn them into a scoped v1, deciding what's in and what's deliberately left out, and being able to explain why.
• Push for a rough version live in production over a polished one sitting in Figma, and know when that trade-off is the right call.
• Use AI tools as part of your everyday process — prototyping in code, generating and evaluating variations, drafting copy, synthesizing research — and apply real design judgment and taste to what comes out of them.
• Work closely with engineering and the founding team in a small, fast-moving environment where design decisions ship quickly.

What We're Looking For

• Strong systems thinking: you can design for complex, multi-object domains without losing coherence across the product.
• A track record of owning features end to end, from ambiguous problem to shipped, QA'd product.
• Comfort operating without a spec — you can independently figure out the real problem and the right scope.
• A bias toward shipping over perfecting, with the judgment to know which moments call for which.
• Fluency with AI tools as part of your design workflow, paired with the taste to know what to keep and what to discard.
• Genuine interest in Rec's mission: using AI to get people back into the real world, and doing it alongside people you'll learn a lot from.

Our Values

• Be Relentless. Move fast. Own it. Ship real value early and often.
• Win Together. Speak up, go beyond the boundaries of your role. That's how we win.
• Take Pride. Treat this like it's yours — because it is.

Pay & Benefits

Compensation: $160,000–$200,000 base + meaningful equity (final offer will be based on your background, experience and skillset)

Benefits: Flexible PTO, top-tier health/dental/vision, and a 401(k) plan to support your future.

Work location: San Francisco — in-office most days at our FiDi SF office.