Staff Product Designer (Consumer)

Reddit; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Flexible vacation & Reddit global days

Family planning funds & 4+ months paid

Personal & professional development

Paid volunteer time off

Workspace & home office benefits

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Senior Product Designer to join the Growth Design team. This role goes beyond pixel movement, shaping how hundreds of millions discover and engage with Reddit’s front page.

You will turn business goals into actionable design scopes, lead cross-functional squads, and craft prototypes that feel real using real data. You will partner with Product and Engineering, present multiple directions to leadership, and elevate the design bar with scalable components for Growth and the

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of product design experience.
• Experience in growth, platform, or high-scale consumer tech.
• Strong portfolio with measurable impact on acquisition, conversion, or retention.
• Exceptional storytelling, writing, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional squads to define design scopes and product roadmaps.
• Deploy high-fidelity prototypes using real data to validate ideas.
• Present multiple design directions to senior leadership with data‑driven insights.
• Contribute to and scale design systems for Growth and Reddit.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Data-driven decisions

Prototype storytelling

Tools

Cursor prototyping

Job description

• Reddit is seeking a high-caliber Senior Product Designer to join our Growth Design team
• In this role, you won’t just be moving pixels; you’ll be defining the mechanics of how hundreds of millions of users discover and engage with the front page of the internet
• Senior Designers at Reddit are force multipliers
• You will navigate ambiguity with ease, turn high-level business goals into actionable design scopes, and lead cross-functional squads with a blend of strategic thinking and elite technical craft
• The Growth team at Reddit is a high-impact, fast-moving environment
• We focus on top-of-funnel acquisition via web, conversion to app, and app retention
• You will thrive here if you love the thrill of high-velocity optionality and the challenge of distilling complex user behaviors into seamless engagement loops on both web and native platforms
• Lead Through Ambiguity by taking vague problems and transforming them into clear project scopes and design strategies
• Deploy coding tools like Cursor or similar environments to build high-fidelity, functional prototypes that feel real and use real data
• Act as a strategic partner to cross-functional partners and leaders within Product and Engineering. Acting as a co-architect of the product roadmap, not a service provider
• Confidently present multiple design directions (providing high optionality) to senior leadership, defending your decisions with a mix of data-driven insights and design intuition
• Maintain a high bar for visual and interaction design. Your work should serve as a benchmark for the broader design org. You should be comfortable with proposing new components for the design systems team that scale for Growth and the rest of Reddit

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
• Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
• Personal & professional development funds
• Paid volunteer time off
• Workspace & home office benefits

Proven ability to operate at Staff scope, driving impact beyond a single team or feature area and influencing product direction across a broader portfolioExceptional storytelling, writing, and presentation skills, with the ability to synthesize complex ideas into compelling narratives for senior and executive-level reviewsProficiency in prototyping via code using tools like Cursor, along with a belief that the best way to test an idea is to build it8-10+ years of product design experience, ideally in growth, platform, or high-scale consumer technology environmentsA strong portfolio that demonstrates mastery of craft, systems thinking, and measurable impact on acquisition, conversion, retention, or other core growth outcomesStrong judgment and leadership presence, with the ability to navigate complexity, create clarity, and influence cross-functional teams through ambiguityComfortable working in an environment defined by rapid iteration, A/B testing, and pivoting based on performance data