Staff Product Designer, Growth

Apartment List•Remote within Canada, NL

1d•CA$118,000 - CA$159,000

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior 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.

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
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.