Staff Product Designer, Bumble Date at Badoo in Austin, TX

At Bumble, we’re on a mission to create a world where healthy relationships are built on respect, equality, and kindness. The Date Design Team brings this mission to life by shaping the experiences that millions of people have with our flagship product every day.

As a Staff Product Designer, you’ll help redefine what modern dating feels like—safe, joyful, and deeply human. You’ll be a key driver at the intersection of product, engineering, and research, balancing exceptional product thinking with high craft standards and a deep respect for the people who use Bumble. Working closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Researchers, and fellow designers, you’ll solve complex user problems and create intuitive, emotionally intelligent experiences that empower people to connect with confidence.

You’ll be part of a team that champions craft, consistency, and inclusion across Bumble’s ecosystem. This role calls for a designer who combines user empathy, strategic thinking, data-informed decision making, and creativity, while embracing AI thoughtfully and modeling Bumble’s values of Respect, Curiosity, and Joy in everything they do.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end design across multiple feature areas within Bumble Date, leading work from discovery and problem framing through interaction design, visual refinement, prototyping, and delivery.

• Influence product direction by identifying opportunities, framing complex user problems, and partnering closely with cross-functional teams to shape user-centered solutions.

• Design intuitive, emotionally resonant experiences grounded in user research, behavioral insights, data, and product strategy.

• Collaborate with Product Managers, User Researchers, Engineers, and Data partners to validate ideas, synthesize insights, and iteratively improve experiences.

• Apply AI-powered tools and workflows to accelerate exploration, improve accessibility, and responsibly personalize user experiences while maintaining thoughtful human judgment.

• Contribute to shared UX patterns, design systems, and design standards that strengthen consistency, scalability, and craft across Bumble’s ecosystem.

• Clearly communicate design rationale to teammates and leadership, connecting design decisions to user needs, business outcomes, and product strategy.

• Model our Bumble values of Courage and Respect while demonstrating our core competencies by collaborating with purpose, taking ownership, adapting with agility, and delivering from insight to impact.

About You

• You’re an expert end-to-end product designer with a track record of delivering thoughtful, high-quality mobile experiences that solve meaningful user problems.

  • You combine strong product thinking with systems thinking, balancing user needs, technical feasibility, and business goals to create experiences that resonate globally.

  • You have exceptional visual, interaction, and prototyping skills, with expertise in Figma, AI-assisted design workflows, and modern prototyping tools.

  • You thrive in collaborative environments, building trusted partnerships across Product, Engineering, Research, and Design to create better outcomes together.

  • You’re fluent in inclusive design principles and accessibility standards, and you bring a global perspective to every design challenge.

  • You’re curious about how AI can enhance creativity, accelerate design exploration, and improve user experiences, and you use these tools responsibly and ethically.

  • You take ownership of complex initiatives from discovery through delivery, influence others through expertise and collaboration, and help elevate design quality through thoughtful feedback and a commitment to craft excellence.

  • Typically requires 10+ years of experience, though we welcome candidates with alternative backgrounds that demonstrate equivalent skills.

    ✨ Kind, curious, and low-ego designers thrive at Bumble. If you’re excited to shape how millions of people around the world build relationships and find belonging, we’d love to hear from you.

About Us

Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through Kind Connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date) and friendship (BFF). BFF is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections and community based on shared interests. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products.

AI Fluency

AI is important to us. We’re excited by people who are curious and experimental, and who think thoughtfully about how AI can amplify their impact and outcomes.

We encourage you to use AI responsibly as you prepare your application. Please don’t use it to fabricate experiences or answer questions live in interviews. We care deeply about authenticity and want to understand your real skills, judgment and voice, because building a meaningful, genuine connection with you matters to us.

Final Compensation

Will be determined based on factors such as the selected candidate’s qualifications, relevant experience, skill set, and other job-related considerations.

Benefits & PerksInsurance: Medical/dental/vision, 30-day eligibility. Bumble has multiple competitive offerings that will be available to you on the first of the month following date of hire. Unlimited PTO + 1 company-wide week off + Focus Fridays every week Fully paid life and long-term disability insurance 401k with 4% company match if you contribute 6%, 90-day eligibility Monthly wellness benefit and access to Noom, Unmind, and Your Money Line Maternity and Fertility benefit + 26 week paid parental leave Premium App Access

Inclusion at Bumble Inc.

Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply. We're happy to make any reasonable adjustments that will help you feel more confident throughout the process, please don't hesitate to let us know how we can help.

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example: she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).

AI in Bumble Inc. Hiring

At Bumble, we may use AI tools to support parts of our recruitment process — such as helping us record, transcribe, and summarize conversations, and supporting job alignment by comparing resumes and job descriptions to highlight skills and potential roles that may be a good match. These tools help us work more efficiently and stay focused on you during our conversations. Importantly, all hiring decisions are made by people. AI is used only to support our team’s efficiency and improve the candidate experience — not to evaluate or decide on your candidacy. Participation in AI-supported interviews and conversations is completely voluntary and will not impact your candidacy. If you’d prefer to opt out, simply let your recruiter or interviewer know at the start of a call, or anytime during the interview or conversation. Summaries and related data are retained only as long as needed in line with our internal data retention policies. If at any point you’d like a transcription or summary deleted, please contact your recruiter directly.

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