Staff Product Designer, Growth

The Role

We're looking for a Staff Product Designer with a high bar for both product thinking and visual craft. You care deeply about how things work and how they look, and you do not treat those as separate concerns. You are an end-to-end product thinker: systems-fluent, research-informed, and comfortable owning a problem from framing through launch. You also bring a genuine eye for design.

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 that feel exciting and delightful rather than utilitarian
• Raise visual craft across product and brand
• Champion brand and expressive visual design. You know when to work within guidelines, when it’s time to evolve them, and you can articulate why. You spot opportunities to improve the product beyond your immediate scope and act on them
• Spot problems, move on them, and collaborate openly

What We’re Looking For

• Baseline, required for all Product Designers: 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

Specialty, What Makes This Role Unique

• 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

Nice to Have

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

Here's The Pay Range

At Apartment List, we carefully consider a variety of factors to determine compensation for each position, including the role, level, and work. The US base salary range for this position is:

• Zone 1: $163,000 - $197,000 TTC (including $146,700 - $173,360 base salary) + equity
• Zone 2: $150,000 - $182,000 TTC (including $135,000 - $160,160 base salary) + equity
• Zone 3: $138,000 - $168,000 TTC (including $124,200 - $147,840 base salary) + equity