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.
The Interview Process:
- NO BOTS HERE: your resume will be reviewed by live humans from PeopleOps and the hiring manager.
- If we’re interested, the next step would be a video screen with a member of the PeopleOps team for about thirty (30) minutes.
- If warranted, the next steps would be a project review with the hiring manager (1) hour.
- If warranted, the next step would be a design case study with key Design stakeholders at PadSplit for one (1) hour.
- If warranted, the final step would be a design craft exercise with key stakeholders at PadSplit for one-and-a-half (1.5) hours.
- If warranted, then we move to offer!
Skills Required
- 4+ years of experience designing digital products
- Strong user research skills and experience engaging directly with users
- Ability to connect design decisions to metrics, revenue, and business outcomes
- Experience designing multi-step processes, complex service environments, and edge-case-heavy workflows
- Expertise in Figma and interaction design across web and mobile
- Strong systems thinking and experience with component reuse
- Familiarity with A/B testing, experimentation frameworks, and qualitative and quantitative insights
- Demonstrated experience designing AI-powered features and using modern AI tools
- Experience with complex acquisition funnels or marketplace environments
- Collaborative, humble, curious, and mission-driven approach
What We Do
At PadSplit we’re disrupting the affordable housing industry by creating safe, attractive, and respectable co-living environments. Our mission is to solve our affordable housing crisis one room at a time while leveraging housing as a vehicle for financial independence. If you’re motivated by the conviction that working people should have a decent place to live, and want to do something about it, come join us!
