Reddit

Remote - United States

Staff Product Designer, Presence at Reddit

REMOTE SENIOR
Posted 1 day ago
$194,600 - $272,400
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Reddit

Reddit is a diverse network of communities where users engage in content creation, voting, and discussions on a wide range of topics.

Information Technology & Services Web Services & Apps Broadcasting Publishing
HQ
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1K-5K
Founded
2005
Funding raised
$550M

Quick Summary

Role Overview

Reddit is seeking a Staff Product Designer to join the Presence team and define foundational experiences across identity, profiles, and emerging product areas. This strategic role focuses on solving complex problems and creating reusable UX patterns to connect the platform as it evolves.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define UX strategy and experience architecture across multiple Presence initiatives
  • Shape foundational experiences for identity profiles and community representation
  • Transform ambiguous opportunities into clear product direction and scalable frameworks
  • Create functional prototypes using AI-assisted design and coding tools
  • Partner with cross-functional leaders to influence product direction and vision
  • Mentor designers and evolve team approaches to systems thinking and craft

Requirements Snapshot

  • Eight to ten plus years of product design experience in consumer technology
  • Strong systems thinking and experience designing platform-level product experiences
  • Exceptional skills in interaction design information architecture and product strategy
  • Proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders and aligning cross-functional teams
  • Experience using AI-assisted design or coding tools for prototyping and exploration

Expected Impact

You will play a critical role in shaping how millions of users, creators, and businesses express themselves and interact across Reddit. By building foundational systems and reusable patterns, you will ensure the platform feels connected and intuitive as it expands into new areas like shopping and professional tools. Your work will directly influence the long-term product vision and raise the standard for design excellence across the organization.

A DesignJobs.World summary of the employer's posting, written to highlight scope, requirements, and fit (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Compensation

$194,600 - $272,400

Job Description

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 USD

In 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.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.  We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.  We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.  For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

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.

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