Senior Product Designer (Seattle)

Housing Connector • Seattle, WA

59d • $125,000 - $150,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Housing Connector is seeking its first dedicated designer to shape the next stage of its product and design practice. The Senior Product Designer will lead product design across the platform, including customer-facing products, internal tools, and brand assets. The platform serves renters navigating barriers to housing, community organizations helping people find and maintain housing, and property partners seeking to fill available homes. The role involves addressing complex and sometimes competing needs where product experience can directly affect whether someone finds housing.

This is a hands-on opportunity to build rather than inherit. The designer will influence both the product experience and how design is practiced at Housing Connector, bringing strong product and design judgment to ambiguous problems with measurable real-world impact. The role is full-time and hybrid, based in Seattle, with at least one day per week working from the Seattle office. Applicants should include a link to their product design portfolio; a cover letter is not required.

Housing Connector is a tech-for-good nonprofit that partners with property owners and managers to reduce barriers to housing, and brings together community organizations, government, philanthropy, and technology to create scalable pathways to housing. It began in Seattle in 2019 and has expanded to multiple markets.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience owning end-to-end product design for shipped software, from problem definition through release.
• Strong product, interaction, and visual design skills, with the ability to move between systems thinking and detailed execution.
• Experience using user research, qualitative insights, and product data to understand problems and inform design decisions.
• Experience turning ambiguous problems into thoughtful solutions and clearly communicating reasoning and tradeoffs.
• Experience building or substantially extending a design system, component library, or reusable design framework.
• Experience working directly and collaboratively with software engineers throughout the product development process.
• Strong proficiency in Figma, including components, variants, auto layout, and interactive prototyping.
• A portfolio demonstrating product thinking, interaction and visual design, and meaningful end-to-end ownership.
• Applicants must include a link to a product design portfolio with their application; the link may be on the resume or in the Cover Letter field.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing two-sided or multi-sided products, complex workflows, operational platforms, or administrative tools.
• Experience as an early or first designer who helped establish a design practice.
• Experience designing accessible products for people with differing language, literacy, technology access, or accessibility needs.
• Experience in social impact, public sector, healthcare, housing, or another environment where product decisions can have meaningful consequences for users.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product design across customer-facing products, from problem framing and user flows through interaction and visual design, implementation, and release, ensuring a consistent and cohesive experience.
• Build the design foundation by establishing reusable components, interaction patterns, and standards across products.
• Develop a deep understanding of users through research, behavioral data, qualitative insights, and close partnership with teams who work with them.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to turn priority problems into thoughtful, feasible solutions; communicate design reasoning and tradeoffs; and ensure shipped work reflects the intended experience.
• Apply design judgment, accessibility, and systems thinking to product decisions and help the team make more evidence-driven decisions about what to build and improve.
• Design for people with varied needs and experiences, including differences in digital literacy, language, device access, and accessibility.
• Establish a scalable design system with reusable components and patterns that make products more consistent and easier to evolve.
• Build a strong Product-Design-Engineering partnership and a more evidence-driven approach to design decisions.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans; the employer pays 100% of employees’ premiums and 50% of partners’ and dependents’ premiums.
• 22+ days of PTO in the first year and dedicated Community Service Leave.
• Extensive holiday schedule, including a full week off in December.
• Paid parental leave.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Life insurance.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA and DCRA).
• 401(k) with a 6% employer match.
• Annual professional development reimbursement up to $500.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed