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— Steve Jobs
Principal Product Designer
Roofstock • Oakland, United States of America 🇺🇸
Shape product strategy and drive experience excellence across web and mobile platforms. Mentor the design team while ensuring high-quality design execution and collaboration across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Shape product strategy: Partner with peers across product, marketing, and engineering to define product vision and influence roadmaps while keeping customers at the forefront
- Drive experience excellence: Lead the design of complex, cross-platform experiences (web and mobile) with a focus on clarity, accessibility, and delight
- Advance design systems: Leverage, evolve, and enforce our Design System to ensure consistency across platforms and touchpoints
- Mentor & up-level the team: Provide coaching, feedback, and thought leadership for designers of all levels, fostering a culture of craft and continuous learning
- Champion the customer: Use research, analytics, and user feedback to gain a deep understanding of user needs and translate insights into product innovation
- Influence cross-org collaboration: Build strong partnerships across product, engineering, and business and operations partners, facilitating alignment and raising the quality of outcomes across the company
- Evangelize design: Bring a strong point of view on product design and inspire the organization around the value of design and great user experiences
- Execute at a high level: Deliver high-fidelity visual and interaction designs in Figma, creating prototypes and UI systems that set the standard for excellence
- Push innovation: Stay ahead of design and technology trends—especially in mobile and AI—and bring forward new ideas
Requirements
- Proven experience designing consumer-facing products, including data-heavy dashboards or metrics (10+ years of experience)
- A portfolio that demonstrates strategic impact as well as excellent execution across multi-platform products
- Mastery of Figma and experience evolving and scaling design systems
- Experience influencing product direction and driving alignment across leadership
- Strong communication skills with an ability to articulate design decisions and advocate for design with teammates and stakeholders at all levels
- Expertise in user-centered design principles and best practices
- Skilled in strategic partnership with the ability to help identify opportunities, refine problems and solutions, and help the team deliver great customer experiences
- Familiarity with front end software development languages and practices, enabling smooth collaboration with engineers
- Past experience with real estate technology or financial services is a plus
Key Skills
- Figma
Benefits
- Generous PTO Policy
- 12 Paid Holidays
- Volunteer Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- 401k Program
- Wellness and home office/cell phone subsidies
- Robust health, dental, vision insurance, and more
About Roofstock
Roofstock is building the world’s leading single-family real estate investment platform. Our mission is to make ownership and management of single-family real estate radically accessible, cost-effective, and simple. Our platform and portfolio of brands, including Mynd, Stessa, and RentPrep, enable everyone from first-time investors to global asset managers to evaluate, purchase, own, manage and sell residential investment properties with confidence from virtually anywhere in the world. Since our launch in 2015, we’ve surpassed $9B in transaction volume and continue to disrupt the industry, deploying technology and innovation to build a vibrant, data-rich service for real estate investing.
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