The Role We Need
PadSplit is hiring a Senior Product Designer to shape and improve experiences across our two-sided housing marketplace. Working on a growth-focused product team, you’ll tackle meaningful, complex problems for members and hosts, helping make it easier to find, access,and provide affordable housing. You’ll play a central role in designing intuitive, human,and scalable experiences that create measurable impact for our customers and business.
The Person We Are Looking For
We’re looking for a senior-level designer who blends strong product intuition, systems thinking, deep empathy for users,and growth-minded experimentation. You thrive in complex problem spaces, move fluidly between big-picture strategy and pixel-level detail,and can clearly connect design decisions to customer needs and business outcomes. Above all, you are authentic, collaborative,and energized by solving meaningful problems with cross-functional teams.
Here’s What You’ll Be Doing Day-to-Day
- Own End-to-End Product Design – Lead design from early problem definition and exploration through prototyping, launch,and iteration across PadSplit’s marketplace.
Simplify Complex Experiences – Turn complicated workflows, rules,and marketplace dynamics into experiences that feel clear,intuitive,and approachable.
Conduct User Research – Interview, observe,and gather insights from members and hosts to deeply understand their needs and translate them into stronger products.
Drive Product Strategy – Partner with PMs to identify opportunities, shape solutions,and connect customer needs with measurable business outcomes.
Experiment & Iterate – Use data, customer feedback, prototypes,and experiments to test assumptions and continuously improve experiences.
Collaborate Cross-Functionally – Work closely with PMs, engineers, marketers, operations,and data partners to develop and deliver cohesive solutions.
Craft High-Quality UI – Build responsive, polished interfaces in Figma using thoughtful components, interaction patterns,and PadSplit’s design system.
Build AI-Infused Experiences – Prototype and design intelligent workflows and AI-powered features alongside our engineering, ML,and AI teams.
Here’s What You’ll Need to Be Successful
Proven Experience – 4+ years designing digital products, ideally with complex acquisition funnels or marketplace environments.
Deep UX Skills – Strong research abilities and comfort engaging directly with users to uncover pain points and opportunities.
Business Fluency – Ability to connect design decisions to metrics, revenue,and real estate economics like rent, ROI,and occupancy.
Workflow Mastery – Experience designing multi-step processes, complex service environments,and edge-case-heavy workflows.
UI Excellence – Expertise in Figma and interaction design across web and mobile, with strong systems thinking and component reuse.
Data Orientation – Familiarity with A/B testing, experimentation frameworks,and interpreting both qual and quant insights.
AI Capability – Demonstrated experience designing AI-powered features and leveraging modern AI tools in your design practice.
Authentic Collaboration – A humble, kind, curious,and mission-driven approach that elevates the team and the user experience.
Compensation, Benefits,and Perks
Fully remote position - we swear!
Competitive compensation package including an equity incentive plan and company-wide bonus opportunity
National medical, dental,and vision healthcare plans
Company provided life insurance policy
Optional accidental insurances, FSA,and DCFSA benefits
Unlimited paid-time (PTO) policy with eleven (11) company-observed holidays
401(k) plan
Twelve (12) weeks of paid time off for both birth and non-birth parents
The opportunity to do what you love at a company that is at the forefront of solving the affordable housing crisis
$120,000 - $130,000 a year
Compensation is based on the role’s scope, national market benchmarks,the person’s expertise and experience,and the impact of their contributions to our business goals.
