Lead Product Designer

Home From College

Sacramento (CA)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Equity Option Award Compensation

401(k) Plan

Unlimited PTO

Laptop and WFH setup reimbursement

Hybrid office environment in SantaMoni

Job summary

Home From College is seeking a Lead Product Designer to own the end-to-end user experience across our desktop and mobile platforms. You’ll design flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups while shaping a scalable design system and visual language.

You’ll partner with engineers and product marketing to ship intuitive, impactful experiences. You will conduct user research with students and brands, iterate on features, and contribute to marketing assets and brand polish as needed.

Qualifications

7+ years in product design, ideally with early-stage startups.
Experience designing consumer apps, marketplaces, or consumer software.
Strong fluency with design tools and rapid prototyping.
Experience building or contributing to a design system.
End-to-end product thinking with shipped outcomes.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end user experience across desktop and mobile apps.
Design flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mocks.
Develop and maintain design system and visual language.
Collaborate with engineers and product marketing through the lifecycle.
Run user research and iterate based on insights.
Contribute to marketing assets and brand polish as needed.
Advocate for user needs and elevate design quality.

Skills

Product design

Design systems

UX research

Cross-functional collaboration

AI-assisted design

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Adobe XD

InVision

Job description

Company Overview

Home From College (H\\FC) is a marketplace that connects college students with brands offering paid gigs, internships, and early-career opportunities. For students, we're often the first real bridge between college and the working world. For brands, we're how they reach a generation that's hard to reach anywhere else. We're in full growth mode, focused on getting the H\\FC App into the hands of every college student in the country and turning first-time users into repeat GIG completers. We're at the stage where every shipped feature reaches real users quickly. The product and design decisions made now will define our trajectory, and we're building out the product team with A players.

The Role

We're hiring a Lead Product Designer to own the end-to-end user experience across H\\FC. You'll work across the full product lifecycle: understanding user needs, designing new features and workflows, partnering closely with engineering through implementation, and measuring adoption, usability, and user feedback after launch. You'll use those insights to continuously refine and improve the product over time. You'll also work with Product Marketing to ensure new features and functionality are clearly communicated and effectively showcased to users. Design at H\\FC isn't just about execution. You'll play an active role in shaping product decisions and helping ensure we build experiences that are intuitive, useful, and impactful.

What You'll Do

Own H\\FC's product UX end-to-end across desktop and mobile app.
Design features start to finish: flows, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity mocks
Build and maintain H\\FC's design system, UX patterns, and visual language
Partner with the team to shape and design features from problem framing through shipped experience
Work directly with engineering throughout the build - catch edge cases, make calls the spec didn't cover, ship with quality
Partner with marketing on launches, landing pages, and how features show up to users
Run research with students and brands to test assumptions and refine flows
Contribute to design beyond the core product when needed - marketing assets, landing pages, brand polish
Be a strong voice for the user and raise the bar for design quality across everything H\\FC ships

What We're Looking For

7+ years of product design experience, ideally including time at an early-stage startup
Background designing consumer apps, consumer software, or marketplace products
Strong design tool fluency - you can move from sketch to high-fidelity quickly
Comfort with design toolsfor product spec designing
Comfort using AI tools in your design process, or experience designing AI-native features
Experience building or contributing to a design system
End-to-end product thinking - your portfolio shows problem framing, tradeoffs, and shipped outcomes, not just polished screens
Sharp product judgment - you advocate for UX without becoming a blocker, and you know when to push and when to ship
Self-directed - comfortable owning ambiguity without management overhead
Clear communicator with engineers, leadership, and non-designers alike

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