Senior Product Designer

BiggerPockets is the leading resource for anyone looking to succeed in real estate investing. We offer content, tools, and social networks for our growing community of over two million members. Our mission at BiggerPockets is to help people achieve financial freedom through real estate investing. Since 2004, we’ve helped investors get their first (or next) deal through a unique combination of immersive education, deal analysis tools, and a supportive community.

BiggerPockets is hiring a Senior Product Designer to help us design and build the world’s largest and most comprehensive real estate investment platform.

The Senior Product Designer is a core member of our product team and is responsible for designing beautiful and intuitive user experiences through collaboration with company leadership, product managers, engineers, and customers. The product design team is responsible for understanding the needs of our users and defining and delivering end-to-end product design.

As a Senior Product Designer, you will care deeply about our customers and can distill complex problems into thoughtful, beautiful, holistic experiences. The ideal candidate is a critical thinker with an exceptional visual and interaction design sense, a strong technical background, and an eye for solving complex problems in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Are you ready to participate in designing the future of real estate investing? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Key role responsibilities:

• Be the voice of the user, champion their needs, and enhance the overall user experience.
• Design holistic customer experiences with big picture strategy and ability to tackle undefined, complex projects from beginning to end.
• Champion efforts to create and maintain UX design standards, personas, journey maps, wireframes, prototypes, navigation, mockups, storyboards, design specifications, guidelines and other design artifacts as required.
• Participate in user experience research to understand consumer needs, opportunities and pain points to continually inform an iterative design and discovery process.
• Collect and synthesize qualitative and quantitative research to inform and validate design decisions.
• Work alongside the product team to solve problems, define customer goals and opportunities, prioritize use cases, and design workflows and interfaces with detailed interactions.
• Facilitate meetings and brainstorming sessions that are organized and productive.
• Create holistic design solutions that balance user needs and business requirements.
• Distill complex problems into simple and elegant user experiences for a range of target users and platforms, including mobile and the web.
• Work collaboratively with partners and stakeholders across the organization.
• Execute designs in an agile manner in a continuous deployment engineering process.

LOCATION: Remote - US based

SALARY: The salary range for this job position is $110,000 - $130,000 based on experience, plus a 10% bonus potential.

BiggerPockets is proud to be an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBTQ+ employer.

We celebrate, support, and encourage being different for the benefit of our team members and community. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, marital status, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, genetic information, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, veteran status or other non-merit factors.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members. All employment offers are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Requirements

Skills & experience for success in this role:

• Extensive experience in designing compelling and quality interfaces
• Expertise in Figma, Sketch, wireframing, and design specs. Familiarity with HTML5 and CSS3.
• Experience with iterative design and working with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative methods for user research.
• Strong proficiency in interaction design for mobile and web applications.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies (e.g. Scrum and Kanban).
• The ability to think about product strategy and vision.
• Willingness to have open, direct, and respectful conversations to ensure we reach the best possible design solutions as a team.
• Strong eye for visual design and a passion for design craft.
• A portfolio featuring examples of both visual and interactive work.
• Familiarity with the real estate investing process is desirable.
• 5+ years of user-centered design in a team-based product design setting.

Benefits

BENEFITS

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Office snacks & beverages
• Tuition reimbursement & career development
• Dog-friendly office
• 401k package
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible Paid time off
• 12 company-paid holidays per year
• Community service & volunteer opportunities
• Amazing team & fun culture with lots of team events
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