Lead Product Designer

About Landis

Landis is a real estate tech startup on a mission to make homeownership attainable for millions of Americans across the country. We were #16 on Built In's 50 Best Places to Work in New York in 2021.

Landis is seeking a talented Lead Product Designer to join our growing team. Our team values individuals who strive every day to find ways to improve the path to buying a home. This mission requires empathy towards the client at each step on the journey to homeownership. Each future Home Owner is different. The Home Owner's circumstances and backgrounds play a critical role in his or her journey to own a home.

The Landis Engineering, Product, and Design team work very closely together. The Lead Product Designer will have the ability to communicate clearly, iterate on design with colleagues, and focus meticulously on the Client.

About the role

• Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into something useful and valuable for our users.
• Design flows and experiences that simplify complex actions into usable interfaces.
• Design new experiences or layouts that evolve and define visual systems.
• Contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of Landis products.
• Give and solicit feedback from the broader team and outside stakeholders in order to continually improve quality.
• Drive a partnership with product managers, engineers, and operation teams in order to oversee the user experience of a product from conception until launch.

You'll need to have

• 6 years of experience in applied product design.
• Experience building and shipping multiple features that are broad/ambiguous in scope and encompass an end-to-end experience across a variety of platforms.
• Consumer-facing products
• B2B platforms
• Internal tools
• Interaction design experience with knowledge to define how an experience should behave based on understanding people's needs, plus consideration of how this product will scale. Use appropriate prototyping tools to demonstrate how a particular flow or interaction will work.
• Visual design experience with proficiency in typography, desktop/mobile UI, color, layout, iconography, and aesthetic sense and how these elements impact product function.
• Strategic product thinking with experience in developing product goals, identifying opportunities, and making decisions based on the impact on people and the company.
• Willingness to represent work to a broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succinctly articulating the goals and concepts.

We'd love to see

• Undergraduate or Graduate Degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Communication, or any design-related field. A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is a plus.
• Experience in several of the following:
• Designing complex user workflows
• Decision-support systems
• Large dataset visualizations
• Information Architecture
• Graphic/visual design
• Usability research/analysis
• Demonstrated ability to design, conduct and execute user research utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Track record of applying common User-Centered Design practices and tools to solve tough design problems.
• Understanding of workflow systems, software development processes, and command center monitoring tools.
• Experience in project management is a plus.
• Familiarity with Agile and Lean UX methodologies.
• Familiarity with designing across multiple platforms (desktop applications, mobile, web, etc.).
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.

Our Employees Matter: We strongly encourage a collaborative and collegial work environment so that our employees can excel at their jobs and enjoy coming to work every day. We're also excited to offer benefits to our full-time employees that safeguard their physical, mental and financial well-being.

• Unlimited and Flexible PTO
• Comprehensive Health Plans, including one option that covers employees 99%
• 401k, eligible after 3 months of service
• Paid family leave
• Commuter benefits
• Compassionate and mission-oriented team
• Culture focused on learning and personal growth
• Opportunity to have an impact on the lives of our partners and clients

In addition to our benefits, this role offers a base salary of $135-$175k, along with bonus potential that is paid yearly and equity in the company. The base salary varies and is determined by experience and skills that are unique to each candidate. The bonus potential is determined by individual, team, and firm performance. Our existing employees are also eligible for an equity refresh based on individual, team, and company performance.

Note this is a hybrid role, based in our midtown NYC office.

Portfolio

We are interested in reviewing a couple of your design projects for this position. Ideally would like to see artifacts from across the project lifecycle. Your representative projects may include, but should not be limited to research, personas, sketches, site maps, task flows, wireframes, storyboards, etc. We are, however, most interested in seeing detailed wireframes (preferably a deck) illustrating a step-by-step user workflow for complex interfaces.

An ideal project to showcase for us would have an intricate user interface that you can use to explain your detailed design decisions. Please include two (2) projects where you can give us a "deep-dive" into your design process.

Please provide us with a link and include it in your application. If you need some other way of showing us your work (either by emailing it, bringing it in person, or through an online real-time screen-sharing session, please apply for the role and we'll contact you to make arrangements to view it.