Senior Product Designer

Housing Connector is looking for a Senior Product Designer to be the first dedicated design hire and lead end-to-end product design across customer-facing products, internal tools, and brand assets. This is a full-time, hybrid role in Seattle, WA , with at least one day per week in the Seattle office. Salary range: USD 125,000 - 150,000 per year.

What you’ll do

You’ll take ownership of design from early problem framing through user flows, interaction and visual design, implementation support, and release, while maintaining a consistent and cohesive experience across the product surface.

• Own end-to-end product design for customer-facing products, including problem framing, user flows, interaction and visual design, implementation, and release.
• Build the design foundation by creating reusable components , interaction patterns, and design standards to improve consistency.
• Develop a deep understanding of users using research, behavioral data, qualitative insights , and close collaboration with teams that work with them.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to turn priority problems into feasible solutions, communicate design reasoning and tradeoffs, and help ensure what ships matches the intended experience.
• Apply design judgment , accessibility , and systems thinking to support evidence-driven decisions.
• Design for varied needs and experiences, including differences in digital literacy , language , device access , and accessibility .

What you bring

• Experience owning end-to-end product design for shipped software, from problem definition through release.
• Strong product, interaction, and visual design skills, with the ability to move between systems thinking and detailed execution.
• Ability to use user research , qualitative insights, and product data to inform design decisions.
• Experience turning ambiguous problems into clear solutions and communicating reasoning and tradeoffs.
• Experience building or substantially extending a design system , component library, or reusable design framework.
• Experience collaborating directly with software engineers throughout the development process.
• Figma proficiency, including components, variants, auto layout, and interactive prototyping.
• A portfolio showing product thinking, interaction and visual design, and meaningful end-to-end ownership.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, dental, vision plans (100% of employee premiums and 50% of partners/dependents).
• Generous Paid Time Off: 22+ days PTO (first year) plus dedicated Community Service Leave.
• Extensive Holiday Schedule: Including a full week off in December.
• Paid Parental Leave for families.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with confidential personal support resources.
• Life Insurance.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA, DCRA) for health and dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) with Employer Match: 6% match.
• Professional Development Reimbursement: Annual reimbursement up to $500 .

How success is measured

• Build a strong understanding of users and how experiences help or hinder them.
• Design and ship meaningful improvements that measurably improve engagement and use of customer-facing products.
• Establish a scalable design system with reusable components and patterns for consistency and easier evolution.
• Strengthen Product-Design-Engineering partnership and a more evidence-driven approach to design decisions.

Especially relevant experience

• Design experience with two-sided or multi-sided products, complex workflows, operational platforms, or administrative tools.
• Experience as an early or first designer who helped establish a design practice.
• Experience designing accessible products for people with differing language, literacy, technology access, or accessibility needs.
• Experience in social impact, public sector, healthcare, housing, or environments where product decisions can have meaningful consequences for users.
• No prior housing experience required. You can learn Housing Connector’s housing systems, partner landscape, internal systems, and impact model.