Homebound is hiring a
Senior Designer

Summary

Homebound is a residential construction startup that uses technology to improve the homebuilding process. They are looking for a Senior Product Designer with Service Design experience to join their team and help transform the collaborations between various teams involved in building homes. The role involves understanding the challenges of the homebuilding process, leading discovery efforts, collaborating with stakeholders, contributing to the product design team, fostering a collaborative culture, and bringing a minimum of 6 years of product design experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or equivalent professional experience
• Minimum 6 years of product design experience
• A passionate interest in service design experience
• Experience with early-stage high-growth startups
• Experience building digital services that improve real-world operations
• Experience working with multiple design systems across companies
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality digital products
• Positive and proactive work ethic
• Self-directed with a collaborative mindset
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Humble, approachable, insights-driven, and receptive to others
• Strong leadership in design thinking methods and principles
• Experience in guiding teams through Service Design methodologies
• Ability to conduct and lead design research
• Excellent design component and prototyping skills in Figma
• Ability to understand and simplify complex systems
• Ability to influence stakeholders and build alignment across teams
• Ability to define and improve success metrics and measured impact

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep compassionate understanding of the many ways finance, architecture, design, construction, and procurement work together to build for homeowners
• Lead discovery efforts to map out our understanding of the current challenges of the homebuilding process, distill insights, and imagine better ways of doing things that you can prototype and iterate on with stakeholders
• Collaborate with Product, Eng and Stakeholders to deliver both the high level strategy and an incremental roadmap of improvements that get us there
• Make sure initiatives are solving the right problems, improve our success metrics, make sure our MVPs are scoped appropriately, lean into early learnings, and champion our user-centric commitment to follow through on v1 and v2
• Contribute as a valuable member of the product design team, participating in design critiques, mentoring others, running workshops, and developing our design system
• Foster a friendly collaborative culture with efficient communications across the many squads of our business to ensure seamless integration of work areas

Benefits

• We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce
• Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location
• Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training
• Your recruiter will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process