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Principal UX Designer
Opendoor • San Francisco, United States of America 🇺🇸
As a Principal UX Designer, you will define the end-to-end experience across Opendoor’s products and services while mentoring junior designers. You will lead design vision and strategy for complex initiatives and influence product strategy with user-centered insights.
Responsibilities
- Elevate the quality of design thinking, craft, and execution across the team by owning and driving operating mechanisms like design reviews and customer experience reviews
- Mentor and coach more junior designers and help them develop and grow as they progress in their career
- Provide input and support to the VP of Design on recruiting and hiring, talent development, and team culture
- Lead design vision and strategy for complex, high-impact initiatives across Opendoor’s customer and partner experiences
- Drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces and simplify complexity into elegant solutions
- Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and data scientists to align business goals with user needs
- Set a high standard for craft, usability, and accessibility across the design team
- Mentor and coach designers, providing feedback and guidance that raises the bar across the org
- Influence product strategy with user-centered insights, advocating for design thinking at the leadership level
- Contribute to the evolution of Opendoor’s design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across products
- Represent design in executive-level forums, driving alignment around customer experience outcomes
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in UX/product design, with a strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design leadership
- Experience shaping strategy and executing across multiple platforms (web, mobile, responsive)
- Proven ability to tackle ambiguous problems and deliver impactful, customer-facing experiences at scale
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills—you inspire teams and leaders alike
- A systems thinker who can zoom between strategy, architecture, and interaction-level details
- Experience working in fast-paced, cross-functional teams, ideally within consumer technology or marketplaces
- A passion for Opendoor’s mission and a drive to make complex processes simple and delightful
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k) to eligible employees
About Opendoor
Founded in 2014, Opendoor’s mission is to power life’s progress one move at a time. The traditional real estate process is broken and our goal is simple: fix it. We are building a digital, end-to-end customer experience that makes buying and selling a home simple, certain, and fast. We have assembled a dedicated team with diverse backgrounds to support more than 250,000 customer transactions across 50 markets in the U.S. But the work is far from over. Transforming the real estate industry takes tenacity and dedication. It takes problem solvers and builders. It takes a tight-knit community of teammates doing the best work of their lives, pushing one another to transform a complicated process into a simple one. So where do you fit in? Whether you’re passionate about real estate, people, numbers, words, code, or strategy -- we have a place for you. For more information, please visit www.opendoor.com Keep up with latest Opendoor news and reports: https://linktr.ee/opendoorhq
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