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 customersand 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 needsand 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 assumptionsand 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 interfacesin Figma using thoughtful components, interaction patterns,and PadSplit’s design system.

• Build AI-Infused Experiences – Prototypeand design intelligent workflowsand 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 abilitiesand comfort engaging directly with users to uncover pain pointsand 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 Figmaand interaction design across weband mobile, with strong systems thinkingand component reuse.

• Data Orientation – Familiarity with A/B testing, experimentation frameworks,and interpreting both qualand quant insights.

• AI Capability – Demonstrated experience designing AI-powered featuresand leveraging modern AI tools in your design practice.

• Authentic Collaboration – A humble, kind, curious,and mission-driven approach that elevates the teamand the user experience.

Compensation, Benefits,and Perks

• Fully remote position - we swear!

• Competitive compensation package including an equity incentive planand 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 birthand 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.