# Staff Product Designer at Rec

- Company: Rec
- What the company does: Rec provides recreation management tools used by Parks and Recreation departments and community organizations to manage programs, facilities, and activities. Backed by NFX.
- Company website: https://rec.us
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rec/73c91b0b-c4a2-48ec-9c9a-02a56b3861c3?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rec-staff-product-designer/

## 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

Tags: Product

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rec-staff-product-designer/