Senior Product Designer, BFF

Overview

At Bumble, we’re building equitable relationships across love, life, and work — and with Bumble BFF, we’re reimagining how people find friendship, belonging, and community in an increasingly disconnected world. From discovery to shared experiences, BFF exists to help people truly find their people, and design plays a critical role in making those moments feel human, inclusive, and joyful.

As a Senior Product Designer on the Bumble BFF Design team
, you’ll lead design work for meaningful product initiatives that help millions of members form and grow real friendships. You’ll partner closely with product, engineering, and research to turn complex problems into intuitive experiences, while role-modeling Bumble values like Curiosity, Courage, and Respect through your craft and collaboration. This role blends strong individual ownership with thoughtful influence — helping shape the product while continuously raising the quality of how we design and build together, including through responsible use of AI-powered tools.

• Own end-to-end design for key BFF initiatives, translating product goals and user insights into thoughtful, high-quality experiences that support healthy, equitable friendships
• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and researchers to define problems, explore opportunities, and deliver solutions that balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints
• Lead design discovery and execution across the full process — from concept exploration and prototyping to detailed interaction and visual design — with a strong bias toward learning and iteration
• Apply strong systems thinking to ensure designs are consistent, scalable, and aligned with Bumble’s broader design language, contributing to shared patterns and design system evolution
• Use AI-powered design and research tools to accelerate exploration, prototype ideas, and synthesize insights, while applying human judgment and care to final decisions
• Communicate design rationale clearly and confidently, using storytelling and data to build alignment and move teams forward with purpose
• Collaborate cross-functionally, take ownership of your work, and adapt plans with an agile mindset as priorities evolve
• Champion inclusive design practices and role-model Bumble values of Respect and Excellence in how you design, collaborate, and deliver

• Typically requires 6–8 years of experience
  , though we welcome candidates with alternative backgrounds that demonstrate equivalent skills
• Strong experience designing consumer-facing digital products, with a portfolio that shows end-to-end ownership and thoughtful problem-solving across mobile-first experiences
• Deep skills in interaction design, visual design, and UX principles, with the ability to balance craft, usability, and speed in a fast-moving environment
• Proficiency in Figma and modern prototyping tools, and comfort working across multiple levels of fidelity — from early concepts to polished, production-ready designs
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with product managers, engineers, and researchers, taking ownership while working toward shared outcomes
• Experience using AI tools to support design workflows, research synthesis, or ideation, with curiosity about how AI can responsibly enhance product design
• A clear, empathetic communicator who can give and receive feedback constructively and contribute to a culture of learning and continuous improvement
• A people-first mindset, grounded in Bumble values like Curiosity and Courage, and a commitment to designing inclusive experiences that positively impact members’ lives

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…