Senior Product Designer, Partner Marketplace

Design

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 join a cross functional product team in creating world-class experiences that help people find and enjoy a home of their own? If you want to pursue your professional goals as you help grow an innovative real estate tech company, this work is for you. Join us as our newest Senior Product Designer and help change the world of real estate, one home at a time.

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer, Partner Marketplace to play an integral role in the performance and operation of a high-functioning product team. This role is expected to partner with the Product Manager and Engineering Lead from start to finish, from initial research and understanding of user problems, through scoping and the creation of user flows, all the way to polished pixels, shipped to the hands of our 100 million unique consumers and real estate professionals.

To be successful in this role, you will need to confidently partner with your cross-functional team throughout the full product lifecycle with a high degree of comfort in all interaction & visual design activities, including contributing to the design system for our professional web & mobile apps. We fully expect that you will have stronger skills in some areas than others (i.e., stronger visual chops than research prowess), and that you are thirsty to continue learning and improving your skills. You will join a supportive team of product designers crafting tools and services for Agent and Broker customers to help grow their businesses and better support their clients throughout the buying and selling journey. This role requires strong visual design skills, as you will be creating experiences that connect our consumer and client-facing platforms.

This role reports to the Sr. Manager of Product 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
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
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
Actively contribute to the evolution and strengthening of our design system, including crafting components, auditing libraries, and ensuring quality in application of the system
Facilitate workshops, design sprints, and other collaborative sessions for your team
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
3+ years of working 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
Proven ability to execute on diverse priorities, seamlessly navigating the context of both consumer and client-facing platforms
Experience delivering multiple projects with cross-disciplined teams
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
Exemplifies a We, Not Me attitude

How We Work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices, 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 wellbeing 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.