Senior Product Designer

Our Values

THE GOLDEN RULE

Whether we’re dealing with colleagues or customers, we follow The Golden Rule, treating others the way we want to be treated. It’s a simple rule, but it’s also significant: we don’t prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.

CALM FOCUS

We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. So it’s important that  we focus on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next. If something is out of scope, we say “No.” If something feels rushed, we pump the brakes. This calm focus helps us create solutions our customers love.

ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM

Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers’ experience holistically, and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams. This approach extends to cooperation among our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title — and produces  a more integrated homebuying experience.

About the opportunity

We're seeking a Senior Product Designer to help us build a simpler, more customer-centric home buying and selling experience in partnership with real estate agents.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

In this role, you will

• Make a big impact building Homeward’s digital product experience
• Work with your team to manage feature roll-outs end-to-end. Conduct research interviews, create wireframes and mockups for engineering, and help test, release, and continually improve the final experience.
• Support 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 coordinate launch efforts with stakeholders in every segment of the organization – from Operations to Customer Service to Finance
• Analyze what competitors are doing in the space to differentiate and distinguish our experience

What you'll bring

• 5+ years product design experience, ideally in a high-performance startup or technology company
• Analytic rigor to business problems combined with a deep empathy for users
• Experience designing, launching, and iterating on multiple responsive web apps and features, and a portfolio to share with our team
• Demonstrable mockup and prototype skills using industry standard tools such as Figma
• Experience in UX research – including planning and facilitating user interviews and workshops, designing surveys, and analyzing and sharing results 
• 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
• Ability 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 and rapidly iterate on them. 
• Interest 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.

Pay and benefits

• Compensation range: $124,000 - $140,000
• 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

Go here to learn about how Homeward takes care of our team by providing a generous package of benefits.

About Homeward

Buying a home should be an exciting milestone. But all too often, it’s stressful, especially in a competitive market or when you’re buying and selling at the same time. So we’re redesigning the home-buying experience. We’re a fast-paced real estate startup that empowers agents to help homebuyers buy with cash. We buy homes on behalf of our partners’ clients with our cash, then the client buys the home back from us. 

Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, a 10-year industry veteran and owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018. In fact, he bought our first customer’s home with his own life savings. Today we offer two services — Buy with cash and Buy before you sell.

We’ve raised more than $160MM in equity capital from top-tier venture investors, including Norwest, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, Adams Street, Javelin, and LiveOak. Our leadership team includes experts from the real estate, mortgage, and technology industries.