Senior Product Designer

REA Group; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and flexible working

Flexible leave options (birthday leave

Flexible parental leave for carers

Because We Care volunteering leave and

Hackdays

Job summary

REA Group in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Product Designer to lead end-to-end design for seller-lead experiences, partnering with Product and Engineering to deliver valuable experiences for agents, agencies and property owners.

You will mentor teammates, contribute to squad strategy, and use data and research to validate designs. This fixed-term role runs until July 2027 within REA’s Sell & Rent design team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing digital products.
• Strong experience designing native apps and web.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end design across complex initiatives.
• Strong product thinking aligning with business goals.
• Comfort with research, data and experimentation.
• Experience designing complex customer workflows (B2B2C).
• Systems thinking and design systems discipline.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Collaborative mindset with mentoring ability.
• Able to work in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• SaaS, property or adjacent industry experience is advantageous.
• Curiosity about improving design workflows and AI integration.

Responsibilities

• Understand business context, user needs, and competitive landscape to inform design decisions and squad strategy.
• Identify design opportunities within your squad and surface problems worth solving.
• Use data, research and experimentation to validate design decisions and measure impact.
• Deliver high-quality, consistent experiences using design systems and visual identity.
• Present work and participate in critiques to ensure quality across the team.
• Track and analyze product performance and iterate based on insights.

Skills

Experience designing digital products

Native apps and web design

End-to-end design leadership

Product thinking

Research and data-driven design

Complex workflows (B2B2C)

Systems thinking

Communication and influencing

Mentoring and collaboration

Agile environment

SaaS/Property experience advantageous

Curiosity about AI in design

Job description

• Join a collaborative team focused on improving REA’s seller-lead experiences, helping agents and agencies capture, manage and convert high-intent leads
• Fixed term position until July 2027 based in Melbourne

We're REA

With bold and ambitious goals, REA Group is changing the way the world experiences property. No matter where you're at on your property journey, we're here to help with every step - whether that's finding or financing your next home. Our people are the key to our success. At the heart of everything we do, is a thriving culture centred around high performance and care. We are purpose driven and collaborative, which drives innovation and our ability to make a real impact. As such, we’re proud to have been named one of Australia’s Best Workplaces four times since 2021 — including third place in 2025 — plus Best Workplace for Women in 2023 and Best Workplace in Technology in 2024 and 2025. These listings are testament to every person who helps make REA a great place to work.

Where the team fits in

You’ll join REA’s Sell & Rent design team, partnering with the Grow Leads squad. Together with your squad, you’ll build experiences that help agents, sellers and property owners get more value from their property journey — from generating and managing appraisal requests to helping owners make informed decisions and take their next step. Working closely with Product and Engineering, the team turns customer needs into simple, useful and commercially meaningful experiences across REA’s digital products. It’s a collaborative, outcome-focused environment where designers are involved from discovery through delivery and have the opportunity to shape products used by millions of people.

What The Role Is All About

As the Senior Product Designer, you will lead design work end-to-end with a high degree of autonomy, contribute to squad strategy, and actively raise the bar for those around you through mentoring and craft leadership. You are a trusted partner to Product and Engineering and bring both depth and breadth to everything you ship.

• Understand the business context, user needs, and competitive landscape for your area, using that knowledge to inform design decisions and contribute to squad strategy.
• Proactively identify design opportunities within your squad by surfacing problems worth solving, not just executing on the brief you're given.
• Use data, research, and experimentation to validate design decisions and measure the impact of your work on user and business outcomes.
• Deliver high-quality, consistent experiences using systems thinking, leveraging and raising the bar on the design system and visual identity.
• Present work and participate in design critiques, providing thoughtful feedback that ensures consistency and quality across the team.
• Track and analyse the performance of products and features, using data and user insight to iterate and improve outcomes over time.

Who We’re Looking For

• 5+ years’ experience designing digital products using industry-standard tools and best-practice design processes.
• Strong experience designing for both native apps and web.
• A proven ability to lead end-to-end design across complex initiatives — from discovery and research through to prototyping, delivery and iteration.
• Strong product thinking, with the ability to understand business context, user needs and competitive landscapes, and contribute to squad strategy and roadmaps.
• Confidence using research, data and experimentation to validate design decisions and measure impact.
• Experience designing for complex customer and consumer workflows, ideally in a two-sided marketplace or B2B2C environment.
• Strong systems thinking and a commitment to delivering high-quality, consistent experiences through design systems.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to clearly explain design rationale and build shared ownership with stakeholders.
• A collaborative mindset, with the confidence to mentor others, contribute to critiques and help raise the standard of design practice.
• A solutions-focused approach and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Experience in SaaS, property or another adjacent industry would be advantageous.
• Curiosity about improving design workflows, and how AI can meaningfully contribute your process

The REA Experience

The physical, mental, emotional and financial health of our people is something we’ll never stop caring about. This is a place to learn and grow.

Some of our Perks & Benefits

• A hybrid and flexible approach to working
• Flexible leave options including, birthday leave and purchase additional leave
• Flexible parental leave offering for primary and secondary carers
• Our Because We Care program offers employees volunteering leave, community grants, matched payroll giving and our Community Café donates 100% of revenue to charity
• Hackdays so you can bring your big ideas to life

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe teams with diverse ideas and experiences are more creative, more effective and fuel disruptive thinking. If you've got the skills, dedication and enthusiasm to learn but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch.

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