Senior Product Designer (AI Builder)

Babylist

1d • Remote

About The Position

The Senior Product Designer is the primary owner for user experience, delight, and interaction quality on the team. Equal parts skilled designer, hands-on researcher, and AI-enabled builder, you own how things feel, think broadly about user flows across the full Babylist experience, and hold the bar for whether something is intuitive, beautiful, and emotionally right for the user. You work alongside product managers, engineers, and data partners, but you are the one driving the experience layer and making sure every interaction meets both the functional and emotional needs of our users to drive impactful outcomes for the business. You flex beyond the basics by running research, standing up working prototypes (in hours not days), and contributing to production-quality front-end code ensuring polish is never a trade-off. You help Babylist make the transition into AI-native product development by modeling what an AI-native designer does every day. In this role, you shape how parents discover products, receive gifts, and navigate early parenthood across web and native mobile. These are not casual interactions. Families are making decisions during one of the most meaningful and overwhelming transitions of their lives. The experience has to be easy to use, easy to understand, and worthy of the trust they place in us.

Requirements

• Craft and experience obsessed. You care deeply about how things feel, not just how they function. You notice the details most people can't articulate but everyone responds to like transitions, motion, and accessibility. You hold the high bar for delight and have a portfolio of shipped consumer product work across web and native mobile that demonstrates this.
• A systems thinker. You see the full picture. You think about how a single interaction fits into a broader flow, how flows connect across products, and how the design system enables all of it. You design for coherence, not just screens.
• Industry aware and pattern fluent. You stay current with modern product design, not to follow trends but to borrow what's proven and challenge what's stale. You know the interaction patterns, design system conventions, and digital product best practices that have become table stakes, and you know when to apply them or evolve them when Babylist families need something different.
• Human-and-data-centered. You know how to leverage (and plan and run) generative and evaluative research to unlock actionable insights that guide product decisions. You bring concrete qualitative and quantitative evidence into design decisions and share clear, persuasive design rationale via concise and impactful communication.
• Product savvy. You know what's worth building and what isn't, what UX is right for a given context, and what will actually resonate with users in ways that support the business.' top line goals. You make engineers and product managers faster, not slower, by reducing ambiguity and tightening the scope of what needs to be solved.
• Critical thinker. You question assumptions and stress-test ideas before committing to them, distinguishing between what the data says and what people want it to say. You approach problems with creativity and multi-dimensional thinking.
• Feedback fan. You seek out friction before it finds you. You build feedback loops into your process from the start, not as a final check but as a continuous signal. You put prototypes in front of users early, share in-progress designs with teammates before they're polished, and actively solicit the critique that makes the work better.
• AI-native. You use AI tools to prototype, explore, and iterate at speed. You know how to move from a rough concept to an interactive prototype in hours, preferring to put a rough version in front of a user tomorrow than perfect a comp for two weeks. You have a portfolio of things you have designed and built this way.
• A real builder. You write production frontend code. You are not dependent on an engineer to translate your mock; you can ship it yourself.
• Outcome owner. You don't celebrate shipping, you own impact. You instrument your own work, track whether it's moving the right metrics, and hold yourself accountable for meaningful results. You make clean iterate/pivot/stop decisions based on evidence, not attachment.
• Adaptable to change. You select for change, not against it. You jump in where needed, working across team boundaries without waiting for permission. You are humble, low-ego, and biased toward action. You bring curiosity to ambiguity, not anxiety.
• Excited about the AI transformation. Not anxious about it. You believe this is the most interesting moment in modern design careers, and you want to help shape what an AI-first design organization looks like both at Babylist and as a category.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing and building for e-commerce, marketplace, or registry products where trust, clarity, and emotional tone matter as much as conversion.
• Experience with a modern frontend stack. React, React Native, Swift UI, or equivalent. You have opinions about component architecture and know how to build for maintainability.
• A background in motion design, animation, or advanced CSS. You know how to make interfaces feel alive without making them feel slow.
• Experience building or significantly contributing to a design system used across multiple products and platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own the experience layer across a customer journey or product surface end-to-end. Think holistically about user flows, brand expression, information architecture, and interaction patterns across the full Babylist product ecosystem - both web and native app - working with other designers and teams as needed.
• Design and build experiences that drive outcomes. That means using sound judgement to create experiences that solve real problems, are intuitive under stress, simple when decisions are complex, and delightful when the moment calls for it.
• Define excellence. Set the bar for quality, delight, and product excellence by demonstrating and teaching your team what great looks and feels like. Eschew perfection for learning that propels the product toward your high bar.
• Stay deeply connected to users. Talk to customers. Plan and execute research to ground design decisions in how families actually behave. Create fast feedback loops through user testing, Babylist communities, and other channels. Your design decisions are grounded in reality, not assumption.
• Contribute to and evolve Babylist's design system. Build reusable components, define interaction patterns, and ensure consistency across web and native mobile.
• Operate with agency. Don’t wait for permission. Create the conditions for your success and bias toward action, starting before you have the full picture and opting to learn along the way. Hold yourself accountable and avoid attributing setbacks to external conditions. Challenges should energize you to think creatively and try new things.
• Build with AI-native workflows. Research synthesis, rapid prototyping, production code, design system evolution, interaction exploration. Show your team what's possible by doing it yourself leveraging AI - then share and teach what’s working.
• Write production frontend code. Work in the codebase to implement, refine, and polish the experiences you design. Close the gap between what a design looks like in Figma and what a user actually touches - finding and fixing rough edges without being asked. The transitions, the micro-interactions, the loading states, the empty states, the error states, the keyboard behavior. Own all of it.
• Help democratize design. Support AI-enabled workflows that bring product managers, engineers, and other collaborators into design tools, creating the conditions for non-designers to contribute meaningfully to the experience layer. Act as a consultant and quality bar on that work, not a gatekeeper. Build shared literacy around what good looks like, so the people working alongside you can make better decisions independently.
• Multiply your team. Be an excellent partner to engineers, product managers, and analysts as your co-builders to move the highest-impact work forward with strong communication and collaboration. Bring tighter problem framing, sharper user insight, and prototypes that make decisions easier to make. Design the repeatable, low-friction systems that let everyone on your team, including you, ship faster without sacrificing quality.
• Be a flexible operator. Whatever the opportunity, you ramp fast, partner well, and get work into customers' hands quickly.

Benefits

• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts
• Generous paid parental leave and PTO
• Winter Wonder Week: the whole company takes a paid week off at the end of the year, whether or not you celebrate anything, so everyone's out at once and comes back refreshed
• Remote work stipend to set up your office
• Perks for physical, mental, and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed