Senior Product Designer

Homebound seeks a Senior Product Designer to create an elegant and cohesive experience for participants in their homebuilding platform.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers and engineering leads to drive squad objectives and roadmap, ensuring successful strategy implementation.
• Lead discovery efforts to make our platform actionable, delivering research findings, UX maps, and prototypes to enhance the user experience.
• Contribute as a valuable member of the product design team, participating in design critiques, mentoring others, and developing the design system.
• Foster efficient communication across cross-functional squads to ensure seamless integration of work areas within an information hierarchy.
• Demonstrate empathy towards the complexity of architecture, design, construction, and procurement, and continuously improve their experience.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of our design system, ensuring consistency and scalability.

Requirements

• 6+ years of design experience.
• Profound understanding and application of design thinking methods and principles.
• Proficiency in current design tools (like Figma).
• Effective communication skills, able to articulate design work and rationale to peers and cross-functional teams.
• Proactive, hard-working, and eager to tackle new challenges.
• Self-directed, demonstrating initiative and ownership while collaborating with cross-functional partners and other designers.
• Ability to collaborate with non-technical teams, translating operational needs into an optimal platform experience.
• Experience designing user-friendly, efficient, and effective complex systems.
• Humble, approachable, and receptive to learning and growth opportunities.
• Ability to influence stakeholders, provide constructive feedback, and focus on solutions.
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality digital products that achieve results.
• Ability to evaluate the customer and business impact of design decisions.

Key Skills

• Familiarity with processes in architecture, design, procurement, and construction fields.
• Experience working with complex real-time systems involving multiple user roles.
• Familiarity with innovative technologies such as machine learning and AI.
• Consideration for inclusive design and accessibility, with an understanding of WCAG best practices.
• Previous experience working in a startup environment.