Principal Product Designer

We're seeking a Principal Product Designer to join us in delivering on our mission of building a simpler, more streamlined and customer-centric home buying and selling experience. 

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

• Report to our Chief Product Officer and work closely with senior leadership to define and execute on the product and user experience vision.
• Make a big impact on a small team building Homeward’s digital product experience.
• Manage feature roll-outs end-to-end. Conduct research interviews and create wireframes and mockups for engineering then help test, release, and continually improve the final experience.
• Support re-building our design system that includes fonts, colors, and components, to ensure a consistent user experience across our apps
• Collaborate daily with Product Managers and Engineers to translate user stories to compelling, pixel-perfect mockups.
• Seek feedback and coordinated launch efforts with every segment of the organization from Sales to Operations to Finance
• Analyze what competitors are doing in the space to differentiate and distinguish our experience.

• You have 6+ years product design experience, ideally in a high-performance startup or technology company. 
• You apply analytical rigor to business problems combined with a deep empathy for users
• You’ve designed, launched and iterated on multiple responsive web apps and features, and have a portfolio to share with our team.
• Demonstrable mockup and prototype skills using industry standard tools such as Figma
• Experience conducting user interviews, user experience tests, and survey research
• Strong qualitative and quantitative analysis skills
• A strong outcomes-focused mentality and drive
• Great organizational skill
• Enthusiasm about helping beyond the bounds of your day-to-day role
• A high degree of flexibility and coachability
• You’re able to ship quickly and adjust your process to fit the needs of an early stage startup. You create high-quality designs in short cycle times. You value shipping a good solution now over a great solution several weeks from now. At this stage of our company, we need to get our designs in front of customers so we can rapidly iterate on it. 
• You’re interested in improving the complex, emotional process of buying and selling a home and making it the exciting milestone in people’s lives that it deserves to be.

• You’ve shipped products in compliance-heavy industries like consumer lending, insurance, or finance.
• Prior real estate, proptech, or fintech experience.

• Compensation range: $145,000 - $160,000 Base Salary
• Remote-first environment (our Headquarters are in Austin, TX, come visit!)
• Company-wide bonus 
• Exciting stock option grant for every full-time employee 
• 401(k) employer contribution match 
• Health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Twenty days of vacation, five sick days, twelve company holidays, and two floating holidays each year
• Generous paid parental leave of up to 14 weeks

See more about how Homeward takes care of our team by providing a generous package of benefits here.