Senior Product Designer, Consumer

Realtor.com; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive and Competitive medical coverage

Flexible Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement program

Free snacks and refreshments in office

Job summary

A leading real estate platform in Austin is seeking a Senior Product Designer to lead design projects and collaborate with cross-functional teams on user experience solutions. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of design experience, including work in product-led organizations, and a strong design portfolio. This role involves articulating design decisions, facilitating workshops, and leading design processes from conception to completion, all while working in a collaborative and innovative environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years working in design industry, with at least 3 years in a product-led organization.
• Portfolio which examples a strong design point of view and depth of experience.
• Experience delivering multiple projects with cross-disciplined team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a diverse group of stakeholders on complex problems.
• Independently lead all aspects of the design process from conception to completion.
• Deliver innovative solutions which significantly improve user experience.

Skills

User-centered design methodologies

Strong communication skills

Design thinking principles

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Prototyping tools

Design software

Job description

Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.

Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.

Are you a Design expert? Are you looking to work closely with product and engineering to create and execute on a bold vision? If you want to expand your professional goals at Realtor.com®, this is the role for you. Join us as our newest Senior Product Designer and continue to Love Your Career at Realtor.com®.

We are looking for a talented designer who will work closely with cross‑functional partners in Product and Engineering to create and execute on our bold vision for transforming the real estate industry. Your responsibility will be to understand, scope and ship polished experiences for our 75M monthly active users across web and native apps. You will be a design leader within the team, providing thoughtful feedback to elevate our craft and showing what great collaboration looks like in action.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in consumer‑facing real‑estate or retail products and experiences.

This role reports to the Senior Manager of Design.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with a diverse group of stakeholders—including researchers, product leaders, engineers, product marketing, brand, and other designers—on complex problems.
• Articulate the value of design as well as the reasons for your design decisions clearly, in non‑designer‑speak, to Product and Engineering teammates as well as other important stakeholders.
• Facilitate workshops, design sprints, and other collaborative sessions for your team.
• Be the voice of the user, and explore multiple ideas while also knowing when to bring the work to an executable deliverable.
• Deliver innovative solutions which significantly improve user experience across products for your team.
• Independently lead all aspects of the design process from conception to completion.
• Actively contribute to the evolution and strengthening of our design system, including crafting components, auditing libraries, and ensuring quality in application of the system.
• Receive design feedback with professionalism and patience, and give clear and usable design feedback to design peers.
• Uphold a high standard for design excellence, and contribute to raising the bar for design at the company.

What you’ll bring:

• 8+ years working in design industry, with at least 3 years in a product‑led organization.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Portfolio which examples a strong design point of view and depth of experience, including user‑centered design methodologies, interaction flows, prototyping, high‑fidelity screens, and shipped products.
• Experience delivering multiple projects with cross‑disciplined team.
• Strong and clear communication skills.
• Informed and strong opinions, loosely held.
• A practitioner of user‑centric processes and design thinking principles.
• Mastery of design thinking practices and craft.
• A “We, Not Me” mindset: collaborative, team‑oriented, and invested in shared success.

How We Work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in‑person collaboration. Our employees work three days in our Austin headquarters, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in‑person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

How we Reward you:

Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and well‑being of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:

• Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
• Family forming benefits
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Time Off
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non‑degreed programs
• 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®.

Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading‑edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.