Senior Product Designer

Block Renovation Senior Product Designer

Block is a renovation platform transforming the $450 billion renovation industry. Block democratizes access to high-end design, while combining design, construction, and materials into a streamlined experience. Block simplifies a complex and convoluted process and gives homeowners certainty on outcomes, quality, price, and time. 

Our mission is to give homeowners a better way to improve the spaces they live in, and to give contractors a better way to work. We are building an ambitious, tenacious, and creative team who is unafraid of tackling new challenges. The founders are former leaders at Casper, HuffPost, and Rent the Runway. Investors include Softbank, New Enterprise Associates, Lerer Hippeau, Giant Ventures, Obvious Ventures, MorningSide Ventures and more.

Employees come to Block for the opportunity to work in a rapidly scaling tech start-up that remains steadfastly dedicated to its employees, its culture, and constant iteration and improvement.

Role & Responsibilities

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to craft user-centric experiences across the renovation ecosystem. Renovations are a high stakes experience for homeowners, and a highly detailed process for design and construction professionals. You will partner with product, engineering, and the cross-functional team to create elegant solutions that balance systematic design, product goals, and customer delight. Your work will balance simplicity and flexibility in designing an ecosystem for the multi-faceted workflows that support the lifecycle of a renovation. 

Once here, you will:

• Drive the concepting, prototyping, validation, and visual execution across the Block ecosystem.
• Develop strategic partnership with product and engineering to deliver on mission and identify opportunities for roadmap.
• Help maintain and evolve a digital design system with holistic consideration across platforms.
• Identify tradeoffs and recommend design solutions based on qualitative and quantitative research.
• Organize user research from beginning to end including concepting, socializing insights, and incorporating feedback into designs.
• Develop relationships with the cross-functional team to design elegant, outcome-based solutions.
• Self-start and take ownership over the details from beginning to end.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of digital product design experience, along with a portfolio that demonstrates problem solving across web and mobile. Experience mentoring other designers is a plus.
• Passion for creating great end-user experiences, and a balance between pragmatic intuition and innovation
• Strong understanding of information architecture, multi-step, and cross-platform flows.
• Strong understanding of layout, typography and visual hierarchy.
• Familiarity with user research best practices and methods across different phases of the development process.
• Communication skills to articulate the “why” behind design and partner cross-functionally.
• Comfort with design tools for sketching, wireframing, interface design tools (Figma), production HTML/CSS for the Web, and native prototyping tools (Framer, Principle).

BENEFITS

• Earn equity in an early stage high-growth company
• 100% subsidized health insurance, dental coverage, vision coverage
• 12 weeks universal fully paid family leave
• PTO and company holidays
• 3 weeks a year where you can work anywhere  
• 401k retirement savings plan with matching employer contribution
• Employee discount on renovation services
• Budgeted learning and development stipends
• Working alongside an ambitious, kind, no-drama team

COMPANY VALUES

• Force simplicity
• Problems are our fuel
• Collaborate with tenacity and humility
• Save money where we should
• Speed is our advantage

Block is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, and we encourage our employees to participate as their authentic selves in our work environment. We strive to build better for all, towards a more open, inclusive space. Come as you are.