Senior Product Designer

Buildout; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

2 medical plans

Dental & vision premiums covered

HSA seed

STD, LTD, life insurance

Telemedicine

Wellness stipend

Flexible PTO

Paid holidays

Parental leave

401(k) with 4% match

Remote work reimbursement

Annual in-person kickoff

Growth and development

Unique culture

Job summary

Buildout is seeking a Senior Product Designer to craft thoughtful user experiences for complex CRE workflows. You will shape product vision, run self-managed UX research, and collaborate with PMs to validate impact.

You’ll maintain a shared, high-fidelity prototype using Figma and AI tooling to accelerate delivery, while mentoring a small UX/Product team and advocating for customers. The role is fully remote across the United States with annual company gatherings and salary targeting

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional UX/UI design experience with a strong portfolio.
• Experience with a SaaS product portfolio and new product introduction.
• Working knowledge of web technologies and their constraints.
• Comfortable building interactive prototypes with AI-assisted tools.
• Experience leading and assisting in user research activities and workshops.
• Expertise in UX/UI standards for responsive and mobile design.
• Startup experience is a plus; CRE experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design thoughtful user experiences that simplify broker workflows.
• Help bring new products to market and shape the CRE industry.
• Define product vision with Product Managers and conduct UX research.
• Be the voice of the customer and communicate design decisions clearly.
• Create diagrams, sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs.
• Partner with a designer to maintain a high-fidelity prototype for validation.
• Sync with the design partner to keep patterns and components coherent.
• Build personas and use research to refine outcomes.
• Support weekly UX meetings and mentor junior designers.

Skills

UX/UI design

Product design

Figma

Prototyping

User research

AI-assisted design tools

Prototype collaboration

Tools

Figma

Claude Code

Job description

About Buildout

Buildout is the AI deal engine for CRE brokerages, automating every step from first contact to commission. While brokers focus on relationships and winning listings, Buildout handles the workflows behind the scenes, turning manual processes into intelligent, scalable systems. Trusted by over 50,000 brokers, Buildout powers more profitable deals from lead to close. Learn more at www.buildout.com.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer who has a proven track record of shipping thoughtful workflows and experiences curated through rapid user research (qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic) and is able to build trust amongst the team, lead with a vision, drive quality, foster a collaborative environment, and iterate quickly on taking ideas to reality. If you love what you do and want to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment that will challenge you to do your best, then we’d love to meet you. Your contributions will have a direct impact on the growth of Buildout and you can bring your passion for great products to the table everyday.

How You’ll Contribute

• Design thoughtful user experiences that make the complexities of broker and brokerage operations easy to navigate and understand

• Help bring new products to market and shape the commercial real estate industry

• Work closely with Product Managers to help define product vision and strategy and conduct self-managed UX research to discover or validate the impact of a feature you are working on for our customers

• Be the voice-of-the-customer within your product focus, and clearly communicate your design decisions to stakeholders to help build user empathy throughout the organization

• Craft useful and usable experiences through diagrams, sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs that allow stakeholders to see the user journey through new product features & solutions, then handoff to our software developers and validate that the implementation matches your vision

• Partner with another designer to co-maintain a high-fidelity interactive prototype that acts as the team's shared source of truth for customer validation, stakeholder alignment, and sales demos. Using Figma alongside AI tooling like Claude Code, you'll turn designed frames into working screens far faster than static prototyping allows. The prototype communicates the experience, not production code.

• Sync regularly with your design partner to keep the prototype coherent as it grows, aligning on patterns, components, and conventions so it reads as one product with a shared design language.

• Help us build and maintain relevant personas for your product(s) and leverage research to review them periodically

• Build confidence for your design vision based on an understanding of the personas and intended outcomes

• Participate in weekly UX meetings to share ideas and exchange feedback

• Mentor a small team of UX and Product Designers

• Take the work, but not yourself, seriously

What Makes a Great Candidate

• 5+ years of professional experience in UX/UI as a user experience designer or product designer with a strong portfolio of design projects including detailed descriptions of your design process

• Experience with a SaaS product portfolio and new product introduction

• Working knowledge of web technologies and their constraints, and a passion for creating complex systems and keeping them well maintained

• Comfortable building interactive prototypes with AI-assisted tools, or eager to learn. No software development background required.

• Comfortable leading and assisting in user research activities, design sprints, and workshops

• Expertise in Figma, and be knowledgeable of UX/UI standards, protocols, and methodologies for both responsive and mobile app design to take incomplete requirements and produce consistent, usable wireframes and high fidelity mockups

• Comfortable embracing uncertainty and challenging the team with new ideas

• Experience working in a startup is a plus, but not required

• Commercial Real Estate experience is a plus, but not required

We know there are great candidates who won’t check all of these boxes, and we also know you might bring important skills that we haven’t considered. If that’s you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.

Location: This is a fully remote role open across most of the US.

Travel: Interviewing, onboarding, and day-to-day work is done remotely, but we do bring the company together annually for an all-company kickoff where travel is expected.

Compensation: The targeted salary range for this position is $125,000 - $150,000.

Reporting To: George Mountis, our SVP, Product

Perks & Benefits

This program includes:

• Impactful insurance and benefit options, including 2 medical plans to choose from, 100% coverage of employee dental and vision insurance premiums, HSA seed, company-paid STD, LTD, life insurance, and telemedicine, and a wellness benefit of $400/year.

• Policies that support a healthy work/life harmony, including Flexible PTO, 14 paid company holidays, paid parental leave, and give back days

• 401(k) with 4% company match and immediate vesting

• A fully remote work culture with a monthly remote work reimbursement ($600/year) to support our distributed team and an annual, in-person company kickoff

• Challenging problems to solve with a committed and supportive team who are invested in your growth and development

• A wonderfully quirky culture where you’re encouraged to bring your whole self to work

Buildout is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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