Senior UX Product Designer, Homes.com

CoStar Group; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(K) retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

On-site fitness center

Paid time off

Job summary

CoStar Group is seeking a Senior UX Product Designer for Homes.com to lead design efforts aimed at reimagining the home search experience. This role involves collaborating with diverse teams to deliver user-centric design solutions and contributing to the development of design systems.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of product design experience and a Bachelor's degree, with proficiency in design tools like Sketch and InVision. Located in Arlington, VA, this position offers a chance to join a fast-growing company with a focus on innovation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product design, usability, and interface design.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead design efforts including strategy, user flows, and visual design.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and marketing teams.
• Understand customer needs through various research techniques.

Skills

User experience design

Prototyping

Visual design

Agile environment experience

Human-computer interaction

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Sketch

InVision

Job description

Senior UX Product Designer, Homes.com

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

Homes.com is reimagining the home search experience for consumers and agents alike. We are empowering people to discover homes, share insights and make connections on their terms – disrupting a multi-billion industry.

Already one of the fastest growing real estate portals in the industry, we are driven to be #1. Just ask Brad Bellflower, Chief Change Officer at Apartments.com. After its acquisition in 2014, Apartments.com quickly turned into the most popular place to find a place. Proven success at the highest level – and we’re doing it again with the new Homes.com.

Homes.com is growing quickly and we’re looking for a powerhouse UX Designer, based in Arlington, VA to accelerate our growth.

We ask that you lead a design effort including strategy, user flows, prototyping and visual design, collaborate with product leads, researchers, engineers, marketing leads, other designers, understand customer needs using surveys, interviews, observations, and data analysis, set a high design standard balancing usability and aesthetic appeal, deliver design solutions with wireframes, flows, mockups and prototypes, contribute to our emerging design system, and elevate team practices in user testing, research and interaction design.

Responsibilities

• Lead a design effort including strategy, user flows, prototyping and visual design
• Collaborate with a diverse group of colleagues including product leads, researchers, engineers, marketing leads, and other designers
• Understand customer needs using different research techniques (surveys, interviews, observations, data analysis)
• Set the design standard high, striking the balance between strong usability and aesthetic appeal
• Collaborate with the product team to deliver design solutions using wireframes, flows, mockups, prototypes, etc.
• Contribute to our emerging design system with flexible solutions and drive the evolution of our design practices
• Help elevate the team practices in user testing, research, and interaction design

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not-for-profit, in person University or College
• An excellent design eye and can take a design from ‘good’ to ‘great’
• 5+ years of experience with product design, human–computer interaction, usability and user interface design, and/or visual design
• Strong abilities in sketching, prototyping, and evaluating interaction design
• Proficiency in design tools & prototyping tools such as Sketch and InVision
• Knowledge of the best practices for interaction design for cross‑platform devices and applications
• Strong problem‑solving and critical‑thinking skills
• Experience working in an agile environment
• A track record of commitment to prior employers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing a Design System
• Experience in establishing product metrics
• Enjoy working with data, information and presentation concepts and working with other smart, data‑driven people
• An interest in real estate is a plus

NOTE: This position requires that you present a portfolio of past projects as part of your application.

What’s in it for you?

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance‑based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, and tuition reimbursement.

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in‑person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On‑site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Peloton, personal training, group exercise classes
• Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

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We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full‑time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug‑free workplace and perform pre‑employment substance abuse testing.