Staff Product Designer(AI Builder)

What the Role Is

The modern tech stack has collapsed the distance between designing an experience and shipping it. We're hiring Staff Product Designers to build the next generation of Babylist by leveraging this reality.

The Staff Product Designer is the durable design owner of a major Babylist experience - the person the rest of the company looks to when a hard question about that experience has to get answered. Equal parts skilled designer, hands-on researcher, and AI-enabled builder, you own how things feel, think broadly about user flows across the full Babylist experience, and hold the vision for whether something is intuitive, beautiful, and emotionally right for the user. You work alongside product managers, engineers, and data partners, but you are the one driving the experience layer and making sure every interaction meets both the functional and emotional needs of our users to drive impactful outcomes for the business.

You flex beyond the basics by running research, standing up working prototypes (in hours not days), and contributing to production-quality front-end code ensuring polish is never a trade-off. You help Babylist make the transition into AI-native product development by setting the standard others adopt for what an AI-native designer does every day — in your own work and in the codified workflows you set for the team around you.

In this role, you shape how parents discover products, build their registry, receive gifts, and navigate early parenthood across web and native mobile. These are not casual interactions. Families are making decisions during one of the most meaningful and overwhelming transitions of their lives. The experience has to be easy to use, easy to understand, and worthy of the trust they place in us.

Who You Are

Craft and experience obsessed . You care deeply about how things feel, not just how they function. You notice the details most people can't articulate but everyone responds to like transitions, motion, and accessibility. You hold the high bar for delight and have a portfolio of shipped consumer product work across web and native mobile that demonstrates this.

A systems thinker. You see the full picture. You think about how a single interaction fits into a broader flow, how flows connect across products, and how the design system enables all of it. You design for coherence, not just screens.

Industry aware and pattern fluent. You stay current with modern product design, not to follow trends but to borrow what's proven and challenge what's stale. You know the interaction patterns, design system conventions, and digital product best practices that have become table stakes, and you know when to apply them or evolve them when Babylist families need something different.

Human-and-data-centered. You know how to leverage (and plan and run) generative and evaluative research to unlock actionable insights that guide product decisions. You bring concrete qualitative and quantitative evidence into design decisions and share clear, persuasive design rationale via concise and impactful communication.

A product strategist . You not only have sharp product sense, but are able to articulate and defend where a product is going a\nd why. You work backwards from a vision, ensuring every release is a thoughtful step toward fully realized impact, bringing everyone along (ICs to the C-Suite) by communicating context and decisions with clarity.

Critical thinker. You question assumptions and stress-test ideas before committing to them, distinguishing between what the data says and what people want it to say. You approach problems with creativity and multi-dimensional thinking.

Feedback fan. You seek out friction before it finds you. You build feedback loops into your process from the start, not as a final check but as a continuous signal. You put prototypes in front of users early, share in-progress designs with teammates before they're polished, and actively solicit the critique that makes the work better. You also model the skill of giving and receiving feedback.

AI-native. You use AI tools to prototype, explore, and iterate at speed. You know how to move from a rough concept to an interactive prototype in hours, preferring to put a rough version in front of a user tomorrow than perfect a comp for two weeks. You have a portfolio of things you have designed and built this way.

A real builder. You write production frontend code. You are not dependent on an engineer to translate your mock; you can ship it yourself.

Outcome owner . You don't celebrate shipping, you own impact. You instrument your own work, track whether it's moving the right metrics, and hold yourself and others around you accountable for meaningful results. You make clean iterate/pivot/stop decisions based on evidence, not attachment.

Adaptable to change . You select for change, not against it. You jump in where needed, working across team boundaries without waiting for permission. You are humble, low-e…