Everyone deserves a home they love. We help make the search simple.
The Role
Lead end-to-end product design for renter acquisition and engagement. Own growth-focused experiences from research and strategy through detailed UI, motion, and launch. Champion brand and visual craft, design systems, and AI-driven tooling while collaborating cross-functionally to ship measurable product outcomes.
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Who We Are
At Apartment List, we’re transforming how people rent—making it smarter, easier, and a lot less frustrating. Our platform has already matched over 1.4 million renters with their next home, while helping properties fill units with the right residents. Backed by strong growth and a big vision, we’re building the future of renting—and inviting bold thinkers to help us shape it!
The RoleWe'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. Bold typography, purposeful motion, and expressive micro-interactions are part of how you solve problems, not a layer you apply at the end.
You set a high bar for yourself and help raise it for the people around you. You notice things, form a point of view, and move. You also treat AI as a core part of your practice and have used it to ship real product.
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
You notice things early. You form a point of view and act. You communicate your thinking clearly and early, present with conviction, take feedback with grace, and help your teammates do their best work.
Keep pushing what AI makes possible
You are curious about new tools, quick to experiment, and generous with what you discover. You help the team stay sharp and move faster together.
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
Rive / Lottie / After Effects · Cursor / Storybook / Claude Code / Vercel · HTML / CSS / React · Online marketplaces · A/B testing and experimentation
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
This reflects the compensation target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Please note, the compensation details provided do not include benefits and perks that we offer.
We also rely on market indicators along with considering your work location, job related skills, experience and relevant education and training, to determine compensation that is fair and competitive for you. Apartment List will consider paying compensation near the higher of the range in exceptional circumstances, where candidates have the experience, credentials or expertise that would warrant such consideration. It is always our goal to hire exceptional talent and we would be happy to share more about compensation during the hiring process.
Here's what's in it for you (full-time US based employees only; does not apply to contract roles):
- Competitive Compensation: Including annual salary, pre-IPO stock options, and other financial compensation (if applicable)
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: 100% of premiums covered for you AND all of your dependents
- Unlimited Flexible Time Off: Unlimited FTO in addition to 12 company holidays per year, quarterly “recharge” days, and a week-long holiday break
- Home Office Reimbursement: To cover home office furniture and supplies, monthly home internet, and monthly cell phone (if applicable)
- Health & Wellness Reimbursement: To cover monthly gym membership or other qualifying expenses
- Parental Support: Generous parental and family leave, fertility benefits, and employer-sponsored stipends towards family forming services
- 401k Plan: To support you in your individual retirement goals
- Team Events: Frequent team-building events, fun team off-sites, and bi-annual company meetups
- Commitment to DEI: To prioritize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within our workplace and to stay true to our values and mission
- Mentorship and Training: To get you onboard quickly, learn new professional skills, and invest in your career development
- Impact and Visibility: To expose you to and provide the opportunity to work on highly strategic initiatives that will transform the business
- Encouragement and Empowerment: To explore and adopt new technologies and drive meaningful decisions and outcomes
- At Apartment List we believe that everyone deserves a home they love AND a career they love. We strive to build a diverse team that is a reflection of the people we serve; this is made possible through our commitment to fostering a culture of diversity, inclusion, equity, and connectedness.
As a proud equal opportunity employer, we celebrate the collection of individual differences, life experiences, ideas, perspectives, knowledge, and talent. We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. #LIRemote
Skills Required
- 6-8 years shipping consumer or B2C digital products end-to-end
- Mastery of Figma (components, auto layout, variables, prototyping)
- Product strategy: connect user needs to business outcomes and make tradeoffs
- Deep user empathy and strong collaboration with product, engineering, data, and marketing
- Active curiosity and usage of AI design tools to accelerate work
- Exceptional visual design sensibility incl. motion, typography, and micro-interactions
- Brand design fluency and ability to extend or evolve design systems intentionally
- Motion design sensibility: specify animations, timing, easing, and attention
- Portfolio showing authored, visually exciting work across growth surfaces and brand expression
- Experience with Rive, Lottie, After Effects, HTML/CSS, React, Storybook, A/B testing (nice-to-have)
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The Company
What We Do
For us, renting is personal — we’re a company built by renters for renters. We’re here to deliver renters a home they love at the value they deserve. Whether renters are embarking to a new city, in search of a quieter neighborhood, or making the jump to a two-bedroom apartment — we’re here to find them their perfect apartment match. We’ve made it our mission to revolutionize renting by making it a stress-free, simple, and holistic experience, connecting ready-to-move renters with compatible city living. Home is a feeling everyone should own, and we’re on a mission to help renters find it.
Why Work With Us
Want a job that makes a difference? There are over 100 million renters in the US, and at Apartment List, we strive every day to remove the hassle from renting and make the process better for every single one of them. Together, we can change the narrative around what it means to be a renter.
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