Senior Product Designer - First Design Leader, Social Impact

The Talent Mine; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Coverage

Paid Time Off

Holiday Schedule

Parental Leave

EAP

Life Insurance

FSAs

401k Match

Professional Development

Job summary

Housing Connector is seeking a Senior Product Designer to become our first dedicated design hire and shape the next stage of our product and design practice. You will lead product design across our platform, including customer-facing surfaces, internal tools, and brand assets, with meaningful influence over both what our product experience becomes and how design is practiced at Housing Connector.

We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on designer who thrives in ambiguity, brings strong product

Qualifications

• Proven experience owning end-to-end product design for shipped software.
• Strong product, interaction, and visual design skills; move between systems thinking and execution.
• Experience using user research, qualitative insights, and product data to inform decisions.
• Ability to turn ambiguous problems into thoughtful solutions and communicate reasoning.
• Experience building or extending a design system, component library, or reusable framework.
• Experience collaborating with software engineers throughout the product development process.
• Strong proficiency in Figma and an portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product design across customer-facing products.
• Build design foundation with reusable components and patterns.
• Understand users through research and data in partnership with teams.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to translate problems into solutions.
• Apply accessibility and systems thinking to product decisions.
• Design for diverse users with varied needs and experiences.

Skills

End-to-end design

Product design

Interaction design

Visual design

User research

Design systems

Collaboration

Portfolio

Tools

Figma

Job description

Housing Connector is seeking a Senior Product Designer to become our first dedicated design hire and shape the next stage of our product and design practice. You will lead product design across our platform, including customer-facing surfaces, internal tools, and brand assets, with meaningful influence over both what our product experience becomes and how design is practiced at Housing Connector.

We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on designer who thrives in ambiguity, brings strong product