Senior Product Designer

Designer Jobs; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Paid time off

Parental leave

EAP

Job summary

Housing Connector in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Product Designer to be the first dedicated design hire and lead end-to-end product design across customer-facing products, internal tools, and brand assets. This is a full-time, hybrid role with at least one day per week in the Seattle office.

You will own design from problem framing through release, collaborating with Product and Engineering to ensure shipped experiences match intent.

Qualifications

• Experience owning end-to-end product design for shipped software from problem framing through release.
• Strong product, interaction, and visual design skills with systems thinking.
• Ability to use user research and product data to inform design decisions.
• Experience building or extending a design system or component library.
• Experience collaborating with software engineers throughout development.
• Figma proficiency with components, variants, auto layout and interactive prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product design for customer-facing products, internal tools, and brand assets.
• Build reusable components, interaction patterns, and design standards for consistency.
• Develop deep understanding of users using research, data, and qualitative insights.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to translate priorities into feasible solutions.
• Apply design judgment, accessibility, and systems thinking in decisions.
• Design for varied needs, including language, literacy, device access, and accessibility.

Skills

End-to-end design

Design systems

User research

Figma proficiency

Collaboration with engineers

Accessibility

Tools

Figma

Prototyping

Job description

Housing Connector is looking for a Senior Product Designer to be the first dedicated design hire and lead end-to-end product design across customer-facing products, internal tools, and brand assets. This is a full-time, hybrid role in Seattle, WA, with at least one day per week in the Seattle office. Salary range: USD 125,000 - 150,000 per year.

What you’ll do

You’ll take ownership of design from early problem framing through user flows, interaction and visual design, implementation support, and release, while maintaining a consistent and cohesive experience across the product surface.

• Own end-to-end product design for customer-facing products, including problem framing, user flows, interaction and visual design, implementation, and release.
• Build the design foundation by creating reusable components, interaction patterns, and design standards to improve consistency.
• Develop a deep understanding of users using research, behavioral data, qualitative insights, and close collaboration with teams that work with them.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to turn priority problems into feasible solutions, communicate design reasoning and tradeoffs, and help ensure what ships matches the intended experience.
• Apply design judgment, accessibility, and systems thinking to support evidence-driven decisions.
• Design for varied needs and experiences, including differences in digital literacy, language, device access, and accessibility.

What you bring

• Experience owning end-to-end product design for shipped software, from problem definition through release.
• Strong product, interaction, and visual design skills, with the ability to move between systems thinking and detailed execution.
• Ability to use user research, qualitative insights, and product data to inform design decisions.
• Experience turning ambiguous problems into clear solutions and communicating reasoning and tradeoffs.
• Experience building or substantially extending a design system, component library, or reusable design framework.
• Experience collaborating directly with software engineers throughout the development process.
• Figma proficiency, including components, variants, auto layout, and interactive prototyping.
• A portfolio showing product thinking, interaction and visual design, and meaningful end-to-end ownership.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, dental, vision plans (100% of employee premiums and 50% of partners/dependents).
• Generous Paid Time Off: 22+ days PTO (first year) plus dedicated Community Service Leave.
• Extensive Holiday Schedule: Including a full week off in December.
• Paid Parental Leave for families.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with confidential personal support resources.
• Life Insurance.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA, DCRA) for health and dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) with Employer Match: 6% match.
• Professional Development Reimbursement: Annual reimbursement up to $500.

How success is measured

• Build a strong understanding of users and how experiences help or hinder them.
• Design and ship meaningful improvements that measurably improve engagement and use of customer-facing products.
• Establish a scalable design system with reusable components and patterns for consistency and easier evolution.
• Strengthen Product-Design-Engineering partnership and a more evidence-driven approach to design decisions.

Especially relevant experience

• Design experience with two-sided or multi-sided products, complex workflows, operational platforms, or administrative tools.
• Experience as an early or first designer who helped establish a design practice.
• Experience designing accessible products for people with differing language, literacy, technology access, or accessibility needs.
• Experience in social impact, public sector, healthcare, housing, or environments where product decisions can have meaningful consequences for users.
• No prior housing experience required. You can learn Housing Connector’s housing systems, partner landscape, internal systems, and impact model.