Staff Product Designer

Summary

Join Babylist as a Staff Product Designer and own the design vision for our core registry product, impacting millions of expecting parents. You will design intuitive web and mobile experiences, collaborating with product and engineering teams. This role demands strategic thinking and hands-on execution, ensuring every interaction is polished while contributing to our design system. You'll leverage user feedback to iterate and improve the registry experience. Your work will directly influence how families experience creating registries and receiving gifts. Babylist offers a remote-first work environment, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Be an experienced product designer with 10+ years in the field or comparable portfolio who combines strong visual design skills with deep understanding of user flows and interaction design
• Have a portfolio showcasing strong native mobile app design work alongside web experiences
• Have advanced Figma expertise and be able to create detailed, responsive designs that work seamlessly across platforms
• Be comfortable with ambiguity and be able to move quickly from concept to high-fidelity designs without losing attention to detail
• Understand how to craft intuitive user journeys and make complex processes feel simple and natural
• Actively seek user feedback through testing and research to validate design decisions and identify opportunities for improvement
• Have experience with design systems - understand how to create scalable components and recognize patterns that benefit the broader product
• Stay current with design trends and AI-assisted tools, incorporating them thoughtfully rather than chasing novelty
• Be self-directed but collaborative, able to receive feedback constructively, and always advocate for the user experience even when facing technical or business constraints

Responsibilities

• Own the design vision for one of Babylist's core product areas - helping millions of expecting parents create registries and enabling their loved ones to give meaningful gifts
• Design across web and mobile platforms to create intuitive experiences that make gift-giving joyful and registry management effortless
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to ship impactful features that directly affect our users' most important moments
• Balance high-level strategic thinking with hands-on execution, ensuring every interaction feels thoughtful and polished while helping strengthen and improve our design system along the way
• Your design work will directly influence how millions of families experience some of their most meaningful moments - from creating their first baby registry to receiving gifts from loved ones
• Elevate the registry experience by identifying friction points and designing solutions that make the process more intuitive and delightful for both registrants and gift-givers
• Get your designs in front of users early and often, using their feedback to iterate and improve the experience before launch
• Through your systems thinking, you'll help strengthen and improve our design system along the way, creating reusable patterns that maintain consistency while allowing for innovation
• Your user-centric approach will help the team ship faster while maintaining quality, ultimately supporting Babylist's mission to help parents make confident decisions during a transformative time in their lives

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with design systems is valuable

Benefits

• We invest in the infrastructure you’ll need to be supported and successful: tools, opportunities to connect with colleagues, and a stipend to help you set up your office
• We offer competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We have great benefits like company paid medical, dental, and vision, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 401k with company match
• We care about employee wellbeing with perks for physical, mental and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning
• In addition, Babylist offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including company paid health, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies