Reddit: Staff Product Designer, Ads Platform

This role is completely remote-friendly. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations, our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. 

Advertising is the heart of Reddit’s business. Our Ads UX team is passionate about design, product and getting it right for our users and powers our business by playing a central role in shaping the experience for advertisers shaping Reddit’s monetization strategy. As we scale, the Ads Manager team is responsible for building stable, reliable, and robust tools that empower advertisers and account managers to efficiently manage ad campaigns at scale. Our goal is to enable seamless interactions between brands and users while driving value for both parties. We believe that great designers do their best work when simplifying complexity and our Ads Manager offers a unique opportunity to directly effect and steer the vision of a high-impact critical product.

As a Staff Product Designer on the Ads UX team, you will shape the strategic vision and lead the design of innovative, intuitive, and high-performance tools that empower advertisers and account managers to create, optimize, and monitor their ad campaigns across Reddit. Your expertise will directly influence the design direction of Reddit’s Ads Manager and guide efforts toward AI-driven automation to help transform our platform into a more intelligent and efficient advertising ecosystem.

You will take ownership of key design initiatives, influencing business-critical areas that impact the way brands connect with Reddit users. This will require strategic thinking, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and a deep understanding of the broader advertising ecosystem. You will inspire and mentor other designers while pushing the design quality bar across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Define the design roadmap for the Ads Platform, ensuring that individual features roll up into a cohesive, non-fragmented ecosystem for advertisers.


• Architect the foundational design patterns and logic-heavy workflows (e.g., campaign builders, reporting dashboards) that other designers in the Ads org will leverage to ensure consistency and speed.


• Act as the primary design bridge to Engineering and Product for highly technical initiatives, such as AI-driven automation and API-led workflows, translating complex backend constraints into elegant user mental models.


• Lead by example in the craft, setting the quality bar through high-fidelity prototyping and systems thinking. Conduct rigorous design reviews that uplevel the output of Senior and Mid-level designers.


• Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, and Sales pods by synthesizing competing requirements into a single, unified design direction.


• Invest deeply in the growth of the Ads Design team by providing actionable feedback on craft, strategy, and professional development, fostering a culture of high performance and psychological safety.


• Partner with UX Research to transform raw advertiser data and market trends into actionable design principles that de-risk the product roadmap.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in product design, with a proven track record of navigating high-complexity enterprise systems. You have successfully managed design for products with deep technical constraints and multi-sided marketplaces.


• 3+ years of specific experience in Ads, FinTech, or Marketplace systems. You understand the mechanics of auction-based systems, revenue attribution, and how design decisions impact business-critical KPIs.


• A portfolio that demonstrates an ability to build scala