Staff Product Designer, Presence

Reddit
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for mid-level product designers with cross-functional experience who can shape platform-level UX and influence senior stakeholders.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 8 to 10+ years of experience in consumer tech and a history of influencing senior leaders without direct authority
    — “A track record of influencing senior stakeholders and aligning teams without direct authority.
  • Individuals who have designed reusable UX patterns and platform-level experiences in complex systems
    — “Strong systems thinking and experience designing platform-level or reusable product experiences.
  • Designers who can use AI-assisted tools to prototype and communicate ideas effectively
    — “Experience using AI-assisted design or coding tools to explore, prototype, and communicate ideas.

Things to consider

  • The role requires a high level of strategic thinking and the ability to balance long-term vision with short-term goals.
    — “Comfort navigating ambiguity and balancing long-term vision with near-term execution.
  • The position is likely a destination role, given the requirement for 8 to 10+ years of experience.
    — “8 to 10+ years of product design experience, including complex, cross-functional work in consumer technology.

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to define UX strategy and experience architecture across multiple product initiatives.
    — “Define UX strategy and experience architecture across multiple Presence initiatives.
  • Showcase your work on cross-functional teams and your ability to influence product direction without direct authority.
    — “Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Content Design, and senior leaders to influence product direction.
  • Demonstrate your experience with AI-assisted design tools through specific examples in your portfolio.
    — “Use AI-assisted design and coding tools to create functional prototypes that make ideas tangible.
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • define UX strategy and experience architecture
  • shape foundational experiences
  • turn ambiguous opportunities into clear product direction
  • create functional prototypes
  • partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Content Design, and senior leaders
Typical background
8 to 10+ years of product design experiencestrong systems thinking

Skills & requirements

Required

UX StrategyExperience ArchitectureInteraction DesignInformation ArchitectureProduct StrategyAi-assisted Design

Preferred

Platform-level DesignReusable Design Patterns

Stack & domain

Ai-assisted DesignCoding ToolsUX PatternsCommunicationProblem SolvingLeadershipProduct DesignInteraction DesignInformation Architecture

About the role

Original posting from Reddit via Greenhouse

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

Presence is shaping how people, creators, businesses, and communities express who they are and show up across Reddit.

As Reddit expands into new experiences like Shopping, Reddit Pro, and other emerging product areas, we’re building the foundations that connect identity, profiles, communities, and discovery across the platform.

We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to help define those foundations.

This is a highly strategic, systems-oriented role for a designer who enjoys solving complex problems across product boundaries. You’ll shape experience architecture, create reusable UX patterns, and help teams build experiences that feel connected as Reddit evolves.

What you’ll do

Define UX strategy and experience architecture across multiple Presence initiatives.

Shape foundational experiences across identity, profiles, community representation, Reddit Pro, and emerging product areas.

Turn ambiguous opportunities into clear product direction, scalable frameworks, and compelling experiences.

Use AI-assisted design and coding tools to create functional prototypes that make ideas tangible and accelerate decisions.

Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Content Design, and senior leaders to influence product direction.

Bring teams together around shared principles, trade-offs, and a longer-term vision.

Raise the bar for interaction design, information architecture, accessibility, and reusable design patterns.

Mentor designers and help evolve how the team approaches systems thinking, craft, and AI-native design.

What we’re looking for

8 to 10+ years of product design experience, including complex, cross-functional work in consumer technology.

Strong systems thinking and experience designing platform-level or reusable product experiences.

Exceptional interaction design, information architecture, and product strategy skills.

Comfort navigating ambiguity and balancing long-term vision with near-term execution.

A track record of influencing senior stakeholders and aligning teams without direct authority.

Strong storytelling, facilitation, and communication skills.

Experience using AI-assisted design or coding tools to explore, prototype, and communicate ideas.

A portfolio demonstrating Staff-level thinking, strong craft, and meaningful product or organizational impact.

Benefits:

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

Generous Paid Parental Leave 

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base salary range for this position is:$194,600—$272,400 USDIn select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

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Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Source: Reddit careers (Greenhouse)

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