Staff Product Designer, Growth

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.

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. 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.

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: 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.

What we're looking for

• 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.
• Motion design sensibility: you can design and specify meaningful animations and micro-interactions.
• 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.

Nice to have

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

Pay Range (CAD)

• Zone 1: $131,000 CAD - $159,000 CAD TTC (including $117,900 CAD - $139,920 CAD base salary) + equity
• Zone 2: $118,000 CAD - $143,000 CAD TTC (including $106,200 CAD - $125,840 CAD base salary) + equity

Remote within Canada.