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.
- 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 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.
