Senior Product Designer, Consumer

Realtor.com Careers•Austin, TX

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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