Rec provides recreation management tools used by Parks and Recreation departments and community organizations to manage programs, facilities, and activities. Backed by NFX.
About the role
Rec's platform spans programs, facilities, memberships, payments, and the admin tools that recreation organizations run their entire business on. As Platform Designer, you'll own design for this side of the product end to end — taking ambiguous, often messy operational problems ("our facility booking is confusing," "instructors can't tell what they're supposed to do") and turning them into flows that are simple for the humans running rec centers, leagues, and facilities, while staying coherent across a genuinely... Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Strong systems thinking: you can design for complex, multi-object domains without losing coherence across the product
- A track record of owning features end to end, from ambiguous problem to shipped, QA'd product
- Comfort operating without a spec — you can independently figure out the real problem and the right scope
- A bias toward shipping over perfecting, with the judgment to know which moments call for which
- Fluency with AI tools as part of your design workflow, paired with the taste to know what to keep and what to discard
- Genuine interest in Rec's mission: using AI to get people back into the real world, and doing it alongside people you'll learn a lot from
More about this role
Think about the last time you tried to book a tennis court. Or sign your kid up for a swim lesson. Or find an open rec league that actually fits your schedule. You probably ended up on a website that looked like it was built in 2003 — or god forbid, filled out a piece of paper.
$3T is spent on recreation globally, and it's built on a completely fragmented system that's largely untouched by technology.
At Rec, we're using AI to change that — reimagining how the world plays, participates in community, and gets active. Our vision is simple: more activity for everyone. We sit at a rare intersection — a consumer product loved by everyday players and an enterprise platform trusted by the organizations that power recreation.
We're a small team with firepower. Our founders were among the first few hundred at Uber, then led teams at The Athletic and MasterClass. The rest of the team combines builders from Google, Microsoft, Strava, Hipcamp, and Airbnb.
People join Rec for two reasons: you want to build AI that gets people back in the real world, and you want to work with really smart people.
Rec's platform spans programs, facilities, memberships, payments, and the admin tools that...
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