Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.
Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.
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We are looking for a talented designer to help shape world-class experiences that empower people to find and enjoy a home of their own. It's more than just a search-it's about discovery, possibility, and the excitement of finding a place where life unfolds.
In this role, you'll work closely with cross-functional partners in Product and Engineering to create and execute towards our bold vision and strategy. You will become a subject matter expert in the homeowner experience, equipping them with the data and tools to maintain and enhance their home's value while guiding them through their options when they're ready to sell. Your responsibility will be to understand, scope, and ship polished experiences for our 75M monthly active users across web and native apps. You'll demonstrate design leadership within the team, providing thoughtful feedback to elevate our craft and showing what great collaboration looks like in action.
The ideal candidate has a strong background in consumer-facing products and experiences.
This role reports to the Senior Manager of Design.
Responsibilities Collaboration
- Collaborate with a diverse group of stakeholders on complex problems, including researchers, product leaders, engineers, product marketing, brand, and other designers
- Articulate the value of design as well as the reasons for your design decisions clearly, in non-designer-speak, to cross-functional peers and leadership
- Facilitate workshops, design sprints, and other collaborative sessions for your team
- Be the voice of the user, and explore multiple ideas while also knowing when to bring the work to an executable deliverable
- Deliver innovative solutions which significantly improve user experience across products for your team
- Independently lead all aspects of the design process from conception to completion
- Actively contribute to the evolution and strengthening of our design system by ensuring quality and consistency in its application, while collaborating to introduce new or updated patterns and components when needed
- Receive design feedback with professionalism and patience, and give clear and usable design feedback to design peers
- Uphold a high standard for design excellence, and contribute to raising the bar for design at the company
- 8+ years working in design industry, with at least 3 years in a product-led organization
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Portfolio which examples a strong design point of view and depth of experience, including user-centered design methodologies, interaction flows, prototyping, high-fidelity screens, and shipped products
- Experience delivering multiple projects with cross-disciplined team
- Strong and clear communication skills
- Informed and strong opinions, loosely held
- A practitioner of user-centric processes and design thinking principles
- Mastery of design thinking practices and craft
- A "We, Not Me" mindset: collaborative, team-oriented, and invested in shared success
- Experience designing dashboards, or tools that help consumers monitor value changes over time - as the "My Home" product grows, it will be important for this designer to lead with a point of view on how to best scale and focus attention on the right information in a way that's appropriate for consumer audiences.
- Delivering features across web and native platforms - driving where experiences should align vs. be differentiated.
How we Reward you:
Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:
- Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
- Family forming benefits
- 13 Paid Holidays
- Flexible Time Off
- 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
- Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
- Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
- 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
- Free snacks and refreshments in each office location
Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®
Here, you'll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you'll find your way home too. People are our foundation-the core that drives us passionately forward. At Realtor.com®, you'll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we'll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.
Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.