Staff / Senior Staff Product Designer
RentSpree
About RentSpree
We are currently seeking a Staff or Senior Staff Product Designer to help strengthen and grow our team. RentSpree is the leading provider of rental software in the U.S. that helps connect renters, real estate agents, and landlords to simplify the entire rental process, from listing to lease. RentSpree is at the forefront of the rental wave and we need your help to build something great.
RentSpree is a place where you will grow alongside the company while collaborating with your team to have a meaningful impact on RentSpree’s future.
Position Overview
As Staff/Senior Staff Product Designer, you will contribute to our product design standards with the rest of the design team, influencing other product team partners, elevating the quality, and using data to inform the direction. Your efforts will ensure our product is seen as a market leader, providing outstanding customer experiences and driving business results. You will be hands-on in leading design initiatives that drive product adoption, and collaborate across teams to achieve business growth.
We need someone with strong design skills, deep product insights, and robust data-driven decision making abilities. Your design and customer thinking and ability to positively influence teams will be crucial in elevating our product design initiatives. If you have a track record of designing and launching scalable, accessible, complex solutions in an agile environment, we want to talk to you. You will report directly to the Chief Experience Officer.
This role is based in Seattle (hybrid, 2x/week in-office). US remote can be considered depending upon experience. Relocation is available.
About the Team
The Product Design/UX department plays an integral part in creating the world-class product that sets our company apart from the others in the market. We gather user insights, conduct interviews, ideate, design, and review user feedback to continuously improve our product, all the while caring about our team members growth.
RentSpree’s Product Design and Research team is looking for a Staff-level or Senior Staff-level Product/UX Designer with a passion for improving customer experience and driving product impact used by millions of people. You will advocate for our customers and evangelize your team’s design solutions to leadership, stakeholders, and team members. Your most important mission is to ensure that we’re doing what’s right for the customer. We work on projects ranging from rapid iterative UX Design on tactical projects, to major strategic efforts that rethink how we think about our product. We work together with internal stakeholders to create user experiences that help, surprise and delight.
You will advocate for our customers and evangelize your team’s findings to senior executives, stakeholders, and team members. We need someone who sees around corners, across the entire suite of customer journeys and past organizational boundaries, leveraging healthy disruption in order to deliver a world class product.
In return, we can offer you a great team to work with. You'll have some very interesting challenges and projects. You'll be able to create solutions that scale. You'll be able to grow in this role, your development path is yours to define, and the only limits are those you set for yourself. You'll have impact - our leadership are passionate about user experience, and they want to hear from you about best practice and recommendations.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate and work cross-functionally with design, product, and engineering teams from design concept to design solution, setting UX guidelines, influencing a team creating assets, and ensure highest quality all the way to market
- Create the vision for developing, communicating, and implementing the user experience and associated UI framework, patterns, and assets on a range of products; follow through with the processes and tactics to fulfill the vision
- Use various inputs to identify and define exciting new concepts, opportunities, and customer problems
- Work strategically with other executives and team members across the organization
Minimum Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience as a product designer / user experience designer; experience in human computer interaction
- A strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience and deliverables
- Bachelor’s Degree in digital design, graphic design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience
- Must be able to work quickly and efficiently in Figma
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience shipping large-scale products
- Experience working across teams to synthesize feedback and input from product management, engineering, and marketing
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and analytical skills; the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization
- Experience with working in a fast-paced software development environment
- Desire for innovation, balanced with business needs, and customer expectations
- Commitment to learning and expanding professional and technical knowledge
We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can sometimes get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.
Location
- This role is based in Seattle (hybrid, 2x/week in-office). US remote can be considered depending upon experience. Relocation is available.
Benefits
- Compensation:
- Staff: $180k-$200k base salary + equity
- Senior Staff: $200k-$220k base salary + equity
- Stock options
- Learning & development opportunities
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA)
- Retirement with company match
- Flexible vacation policy
- Free weekly lunch
- Business expense allowance
- Parental leave + fertility support
RentSpree is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. RentSpree makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.