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# Staff Product Designer at Rec Technologies

- **Company:** Rec Technologies
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rec/73c91b0b-c4a2-48ec-9c9a-02a56b3861c3

## Job description

## ABOUT REC

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.

## 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 complex, multi-object system underneath.

This isn't a role where a PM hands you a spec and you make it pretty. You'll go find the problem, define what v1 actually is, and stay with it through build and QA.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own features end to end: research the problem, define information architecture and flows, take designs to high fidelity, write the spec, and stay engaged through engineering handoff and QA.
- Hold the full platform model in your head — programs, facilities, memberships, payments — and design in a way that keeps all of it coherent as the product grows.
- Take fuzzy, undefined problems and turn them into a scoped v1, deciding what's in and what's deliberately left out, and being able to explain why.
- Push for a rough version live in production over a polished one sitting in Figma, and know when that trade-off is the right call.
- Use AI tools as part of your everyday process — prototyping in code, generating and evaluating variations, drafting copy, synthesizing research — and apply real design judgment and taste to what comes out of them.
- Work closely with engineering and the founding team in a small, fast-moving environment where design decisions ship quickly.

## WHAT WE'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.

## OUR VALUES

- Be Relentless. Move fast. Own it. Ship real value early and often.
- Win Together. Speak up, go beyond the boundaries of your role. That's how we win.
- Take Pride. Treat this like it's yours — because it is.

## PAY & BENEFITS

- Compensation: $160,000–$200,000 base + meaningful equity (final offer will be based on your background, experience and skillset)
- Benefits: Flexible PTO, top-tier health/dental/vision, and a 401(k) plan to support your future.
- Work location: San Francisco — in-office most days at our FiDi SF office.

## About Rec Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Rec Technologies builds the AI-powered operating system for the $105B activity economy, modernizing registration, facility reservations, payments, and operations for parks and recreation departments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Birju Kadakia (CEO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Recreation technology / Government technology (GovTech) / Activity management SaaS
- **Target customers**: B2B — Parks & Recreation departments, cities, and recreation organizations across the U.S.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "More recreation for everyone" — focused on creating more opportunities for youth sports, recreation classes, community events, and ways to stay active and connected [partner.rec.us](https://partner.rec.us/).

## Products & Services
- **Rec Platform (Operating System for Recreation)**: A unified SaaS platform that manages programming, registrations, facility reservations, memberships, events & ticketing, rentals & permits, and payments. Designed to replace legacy systems with modern, AI-enhanced workflows.
- **AI Tools**: Recreation-specific AI trained on industry nuances to automate repetitive tasks (confirmations, waitlists, reminders, refunds), provide concierge-level customer support, and increase bookings.
- **Payments & Security**: Streamlined payments collected online, at the front desk, or on a recurring basis. Platform is SOC 2 Type II audited and PCI DSS certified.
- **Self-Serve Reports**: Customizable reporting for revenue and attendance data, exportable for budgets and council updates.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $11.0M in total funding (Series A led by Crosslink Capital, with prior seed round led by NFX) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rec-technologies)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Crosslink Capital (lead, Series A), NFX (lead, Seed round), plus 9 other Series A investors [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rec-technologies)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 39 employees as of mid-2026, with **+29.6% year-over-year headcount growth** (+16 people) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rec-technologies)
  - Active in **100+ cities across the U.S.** [partner.rec.us](https://partner.rec.us/)
  - International presence in India, Brazil, and Mexico [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rec-technologies)
  - Customer success story: Helped the City of Torrance unlock **$125K+ in net-new revenue** by connecting local instructors to the booking platform [partner.rec.us](https://partner.rec.us/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-first approach**: Built from the ground up with AI, unlike legacy recreation management systems. AI tools are specifically trained on recreation data and workflows, giving them domain-specific accuracy.
- **Modern architecture**: Runs on the same infrastructure as modern consumer apps — fast, secure, and scalable. Handles peak registration days without slowdown.
- **All-in-one platform**: Combines programming, reservations, memberships, events, rentals, permits, and payments in a single system — eliminating the need for multiple vendors.
- **Enterprise-grade compliance**: SOC 2 Type II and PCI DSS certified, plus WCAG-conformant accessibility — critical for government and public-sector clients.
- **Switching guarantee**: The company promises "you'll never have to switch software" — a strong commitment to long-term partnership.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling city adoption**: Expanding from 100+ cities to many more across the U.S., targeting both small towns and large metropolitan areas.
- **Deepening AI capabilities**: Continuing to develop recreation-specific AI tools that automate administrative tasks and improve resident discovery and booking.
- **Product expansion**: Building out the full suite of recreation management features (memberships, ticketing, rentals, permits) to replace legacy systems entirely.
- **International growth**: Establishing presence in new markets (India, Brazil, Mexico) while strengthening the U.S. footprint.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: "More recreation for everyone" — the team is focused on getting people away from screens and into community activities (youth sports, classes, events). [partner.rec.us](https://partner.rec.us/)
- **High-growth environment**: Nearly 30% headcount growth YoY with a Series A-funded company. Employees report "incredible growth leads to incredible opportunities" and constantly evolving scope of work. [partner.rec.us](https://partner.rec.us/)
- **Talent pedigree**: Team members come from innovative companies (Hipcamp, Lattice, Salesforce, Amazon Web Services) and work across engineering, product, go-to-market, and operations. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rec-technologies)
- **Hybrid work style**: A "buzzing" San Francisco office with a hybrid work model — flexible time on-site. [partner.rec.us](https://partner.rec.us/)
- **Engineering culture**: Current openings include Senior Software Engineers (Full Stack, Platform, Payments & Finance, Infrastructure, Developer Experience), an Engineering Manager (Platform), a Lead Product Designer, and a Senior Product Manager — indicating a strong, growing engineering organization. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/rec-technologies)
- **AI innovation**: Employees get to work on cutting-edge AI applications in a traditionally underserved industry — a rare opportunity to modernize a $105B market.

## Sources
1. [partner.rec.us](https://partner.rec.us/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rec-technologies)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/rec-technologies)
4. [indeed.com](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Rec-Technologies)

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