Design System Leadership

• Translate brand strategy into a modern, scalable design system (tokens, color, type, iconography, illustration, motion, accessibility) that powers both product and marketing.
• Lead the end-to-end refresh of Opendoor
  
  s design system; establish governance, documentation, versioning, and adoption plans.
• Build clear, modular guidelines and templates for internal teams and external partners to move fast with quality.

Product x Marketing Integration

• Partner with Product Design and Growth PMs to infuse brand personality into in-product moments (onboarding, confirmations, animations, empty states, education).
• Design and optimize growth surfaces: website, landing pages, offer flows, onboarding, email/CRM, and paid media destinations.
• Champion an end-to-end customer journey
  
  ensuring visual and emotional consistency from first impression to closed deal.

Creative, Content, and Performance

• Concept and deliver integrated campaigns and content that connect seamlessly to the product experience.
• Create tooling and repeatable systems for performance creative across channels (CRM, web, social, programmatic, video, OOH, retail signage).
• Infuse motion and storytelling to bring warmth, confidence, and humanity to the brand while driving measurable lift.

Leadership, Operations, and Collaboration

• Serve as a connector across Marketing, Product Design, Comms, Data, and Media
  
  aligning what we promise with what we deliver.
• Establish design quality bars, review rituals, accessibility standards, and localization guidance.
• Manage agency/vendor relationships; coach and uplevel designers and cross-functional creators. Opportunity to build a small, high-impact team over time.

We

re Looking For

• 8
  
  12+ years in brand, visual, or hybrid product/marketing design roles; tech, fintech, or consumer marketplace experience preferred.
• A portfolio that demonstrates both storytelling and systems thinking
  
  brand expressed across UI, campaigns, and content with measurable impact.
• Proven track record building and scaling design systems used by product and marketing; fluency in tokens, components, documentation, and governance.
• Strong cross-functional chops
  
  comfortable partnering with Growth, Product, Data Science, Media, and Engineering.
• Mastery of Figma and modern design workflows; familiarity with motion design, illustration, and component libraries is a plus.
• Bias for clarity, simplicity, and trust; exceptional craft and a knack for translating strategy into shipped work.
• Player-coach mindset: you can zoom out to set direction and zoom in to execute with excellence.
• AI Fluency: Demonstrated mastery of AI-powered design tools (e.g., Midjourney, Magnific, Runway, etc.) for ideation, asset creation, and production.
• Scalable Systems: Experience building and using scalable design systems, including AI prompt libraries and component kits to accelerate team-wide output.
• High-Velocity Execution: A portfolio that showcases an ability to produce high-quality work in rapid, iterative cycles, with examples of projects that went from concept to launch in days, not weeks.
• Pragmatic Craft: Proven ability to make smart trade-offs between speed and polish, delivering excellent results within a fast-paced, evolving environment.