StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels. As a Staff Product Designer at StackAdapt, you’ll lead design projects of significant scope, complexity, and impact—helping teams across the organization connect data, automation, and human insight into experiences that empower marketers to drive business growth. You’ll collaborate across disciplines to frame problem spaces, define strategic paths forward, and refine details before launch. Your work will bring clarity and cohesion to complex systems while elevating design standards across the product. StackAdapt’s customers trust us to deliver powerful, intelligent, and automated tools that make their work simpler and more effective. We take pride in that—and we’re looking for designers who thrive at this intersection of complexity and clarity. StackAdapt is a Remote-First company, and we are open to candidates located anywhere in Canada or US for this position. What You'll Be Doing: Lead design for complex, multi-team initiatives, ensuring clarity from problem framing through launch. Collaborate deeply with Product, Engineering, Research, Revenue, Client Services, and Leadership to align design direction with business outcomes and customer value. Translate data-rich, technical systems into intuitive and scalable experiences that enable confident, efficient decision-making. Build frameworks, patterns, and processes that improve product quality and consistency across teams and surfaces. Drive design vision and strategy that balances usability, automation, and performance—helping teams move faster and design smarter. Mentor and guide designers, sharing context, feedback, and systems thinking to strengthen collective impact. Contribute to StackAdapt’s evolving design practices, ensuring our products, processes, and experiences scale with quality and intent. What You'll Bring to the Table Highly competitive salary Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off! Access to a comprehensive mental health care program Health benefits from day one of employment Work from home reimbursements Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto Robust training and onboarding program Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc) Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning An awesome parental leave program A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture Our social and team events! StackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability (or superpower) status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt. If you have any requests or requirements to support you throughout any part of the interview process, please let our Talent team know. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the resume reviews of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions. About StackAdapt We've been recognized for our diverse and supportive workplace, high performing campaigns, award-winning customer service, and innovation. We've been awarded: Ad Age Best Places to Work 2024 G2 Top Software and Top Marketing and Advertising Product for 2024 Campaign’s Best Places to Work 2023 for the UK 2024 Best Workplaces for Women and in Canada by Great Place to Work® #1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising To learn more about our privacy practices, please see our Privacy Policy. #LI-REMOTE

Who We Are Babylist is the leading registry, e-commerce, and content platform for growing families. More than 9 million people shop with Babylist every year, making it the go-to destination for seamless purchasing, trusted guidance, and expert product recommendations for new parents and the people who love them. What began as a universal registry has grown into a full ecosystem for new parents, including the Babylist Shop, Babylist Health, and a flagship showroom in Los Angeles. Hundreds of brands in baby and beyond partner with Babylist to engage meaningfully with families during one of life’s most important transitions. With over $1 billion in annual GMV, and more than $500 million in 2024 revenue, Babylist is reshaping the $320 billion baby product industry. We’re helping parents feel confident, connected, and cared for at every step. As we build the generational brand in baby, our mission remains simple: to connect growing families with everything they need to thrive.To learn more, visit www.babylist.com. Our Ways of Working Babylist thrives as a remote-first company, with HQ team members located across the U.S. and Canada. We meet in person twice a year—once as a company and once by department to strengthen the relationships that power our work. We show up consistently, stay purpose-driven, leverage AI to amplify our impact, and achieve results—together, from anywhere. What the Role Is Babylist is hiring a Senior Director of Product Design and Research to shape the long-term experience strategy across Product Design, User Research, UX Content Design, and Design System. These functions are central to how Babylist supports parents and gift givers as they discover products, build a registry, manage health needs, and shop with confidence. This role reports to the Chief Product Officer to ensure that user insight, research, and product judgment meaningfully influence how Babylist sets priorities, builds products, and plans for the future. The Senior Director guides the vision for usability, accessibility, clarity, and experience quality across platforms and surfaces. The role sets direction for how Babylist integrates AI into user workflows in ways that are intuitive, helpful, and trustworthy. This is a strategic leadership role that shapes how the organization understands users, identifies the problems that matter most, and brings clarity to product decisions. It also develops the systems, rituals, and team structures that help designers, researchers, and content designers work at a high level and deliver consistent experiences as Babylist scales. Who You Are Shape company-level planning with user insight and evidence bringing research, data, and clear user needs into executive decisions to prioritize the problems that matter most. Lead Babylist’s approach to AI-supported experiences setting the direction for how AI supports user workflows and decision-making through simple and intuitive interfaces. Set clear standards for usability, accessibility, and quality establishing expectations that improve clarity, consistency, and experience quality across platforms. Develop the strategic plan for Product Design and Research defining team structure, capacity, and long-term goals that align with company priorities. Build systems that support effective planning and decision making evolving current processes to support clear priorities, consistent alignment, and strong execution across teams. Establish mechanisms that measure experience quality tracking usability, user satisfaction, research insights, and design system adoption to create clear visibility for leaders and teams. Guide execution across multiple platforms and surfaces providing direction that helps teams navigate complexity and deliver cohesive, high-quality experiences. Identify and prioritize high-impact user problems partnering with Product and Engineering to focus on the issues that most affect parents and gift givers. Scale the Heartbeat Design System across the organization expanding adoption to improve consistency and long-term sustainability. Develop and grow multidisciplinary design teams supporting designers, researchers, and content designers with clear expectations, feedback, and development paths. Increase visibility into user experience work across Babylist improving how user needs, research findings, and experience updates are communicated across Product, Engineering, and partner teams. Represent Product Design and Research at the executive level influencing company strategy and ensuring user needs stay central to decisions and long-term planning. Why You Will Love Working At Babylist Our Culture We work with focus and intention, then step away to recharge We believe in exceptional management and invest in tools and opportunities to connect with colleagues We build products that positively impact millions of people's lives AI is intentionally embedded in how we work, create, and scale—supporting innovation and impact Growth & Development Competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement We believe technology and data can solve hard problems We're committed to career progression and performance-based advancement Compensation & Benefits Competitive salary with equity and bonus opportunities Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts Generous paid parental leave and PTO Remote work stipend to set up your office Perks for physical, mental, and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning About Compensation We use a market-based approach to compensation. The starting salary range for this role is: US: $261,450 to $313,740 USD Canada: $260,500 to $325,750 CAD Your starting salary will be based on your location, experience, and qualifications, with increases over time tied to performance, role growth, and internal pay equity. Important Notices Interview Process & Consent Babylist uses AI to record and transcribe all interviews for evaluation purposes in accordance with CCPA and GDPR. By participating in an interview, you consent to this recording and transcription. Interview Integrity During the interview process, we're evaluating your individual problem-solving skills, creativity, and approach to challenges. While AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor are part of your daily toolkit once you join Babylist, all interviews, assessments, and take-home assignments must be completed independently. 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• Lead Java-based development, architecture/design, and ensure quality standards • Partner with product owners to define requirements and deliver prototypes • Develop responsive web applications and reusable components • Optimize applications for performance, scalability, and security in cloud environments • Implement UI/UX designs using HCD principles • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and code reviews • Design and maintain end-to-end reporting solutions integrating front-end and back-end systems

• Validate our future vision for the platform with users. • Reduce the core component footprint from 300+ to ~60 scalable primitives and reusable components. • Establish parity between Figma, documentation, and React code. • Embed accessibility, internationalization, RTL, and model-connected contracts directly into component APIs. • Create governance, scalable workflows and cross-team decision frameworks to prevent further fragmentation through modernization pilots with key platform teams. • Invest heavily in automation and emerging tooling to accelerate us. • Designing cross-platform components and patterns and operationalizing workflows. • Partnering with platform teams through modernization pilots. • Defining component APIs and architectural boundaries. • Creating documentation, specs, and adoption frameworks. • Facilitating workshops and governance rituals. • Collaborating closely with engineering on scalable implementation. • Driving consolidation and deprecation campaigns across the platform.