Staff Product Designer, Presence
Reddit is hiring a Staff Product Designer, Presence for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $195k-$272k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Reddit.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this role is Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- The posting lists this role as remote.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Claude, Figma and product design.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 159 other open roles at Reddit.
AI in this role
Define UX strategy and build prototypes using AI-assisted design tools for Reddit's foundational experiences.
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.
How we rate this
Staff Product Designer, Presence at Reddit rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- Tell me about a project where product design was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where ux architecture was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where ai assisted design was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where systems thinking was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Claude in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Product Design, UX Architecture, AI Assisted Design, Systems Thinking, and Claude. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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- Put the AI tool in a bullet point about what you did, not just in a skills list. This role treats it as a required part of the job.
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