Staff Product Designer, Presence

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><div class="c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text"> <div class="c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text" data-qa="message-text"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer" data-qa="block-kit-renderer"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first"> <div class="p-rich_text_block"> <div class="p-rich_text_section">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 <a class="c-link" href="http://www.redditinc.com/" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="http://redditinc.com" data-sk="tooltip_parent">www.redditinc.com</a>.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Presence is shaping how people, creators, businesses, and communities express who they are and show up across Reddit.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>We’re looking for a <strong>Staff Product Designer</strong> to help define those foundations.</p> <p>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.</p> <h3>What you’ll do</h3> <ul> <li>Define UX strategy and experience architecture across multiple Presence initiatives.</li> <li>Shape foundational experiences across identity, profiles, community representation, Reddit Pro, and emerging product areas.</li> <li>Turn ambiguous opportunities into clear product direction, scalable frameworks, and compelling experiences.</li> <li>Use AI-assisted design and coding tools to create functional prototypes that make ideas tangible and accelerate decisions.</li> <li>Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Content Design, and senior leaders to influence product direction.</li> <li>Bring teams together around shared principles, trade-offs, and a longer-term vision.</li> <li>Raise the bar for interaction design, information architecture, accessibility, and reusable design patterns.</li> <li>Mentor designers and help evolve how the team approaches systems thinking, craft, and AI-native design.</li> </ul> <h3>What we’re looking for</h3> <ul> <li>8 to 10+ years of product design experience, including complex, cross-functional work in consumer technology.</li> <li>Strong systems thinking and experience designing platform-level or reusable product experiences.</li> <li>Exceptional interaction design, information architecture, and product strategy skills.</li> <li>Comfort navigating ambiguity and balancing long-term vision with near-term execution.</li> <li>A track record of influencing senior stakeholders and aligning teams without direct authority.</li> <li>Strong storytelling, facilitation, and communication skills.</li> <li>Experience using AI-assisted design or coding tools to explore, prototype, and communicate ideas.</li> <li>A portfolio demonstrating Staff-level thinking, strong craft, and meaningful product or organizational impact.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Benefits:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs</li> <li>401k with Employer Match</li> <li>Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support</li> <li>Family Planning Support</li> <li>Gender-Affirming Care</li> <li>Mental Health &amp; Coaching Benefits</li> <li>Flexible Vacation &amp; Paid Volunteer Time Off</li> <li>Generous Paid Parental Leave&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><strong>Pay Transparency:</strong></p> <p>This job posting may span more than one career level.</p> <p>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 <a href="https://www.redditinc.com/careers/" target="_blank">https://www.redditinc.com/careers/</a>.</p> <p>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.</p></div><div class="title">The base salary range for this position is:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$194,600</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$272,400 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p>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.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Informati