Staff Product Designer

Rec Technologies•San Francisco, CA

1d•$160,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

Rec is using AI to reimagine how the world plays, participates in community, and gets active. Their vision is simple: more activity for everyone. They operate at the intersection of a consumer product loved by everyday players and an enterprise platform trusted by organizations that power recreation. The team consists of experienced individuals from companies like Uber, The Athletic, MasterClass, Google, Microsoft, Strava, Hipcamp, and Airbnb. People join Rec to build AI that encourages real-world activity and to work with intelligent colleagues. As a Platform Designer, you will be responsible for the end-to-end design of Rec's platform, which includes programs, facilities, memberships, and payments, as well as the administrative tools used by recreation organizations. You will tackle ambiguous operational problems and transform them into user-friendly flows for those managing rec centers, leagues, and facilities, ensuring coherence across a complex, multi-object system. This role requires you to identify problems, define the scope of the initial version, and see the product through development and quality assurance, rather than simply refining provided specifications.

Requirements

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.

Responsibilities

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.