Senior Product Designer

Job Description

Job Description

About Ruxlo

Real Estate is the largest asset class in the United States — over $85 trillion in total value, with more than $2 trillion changing hands every year and roughly $100 billion paid in commissions to 1.5 million licensed agents across 100,000+ brokerage firms — and yet it remains one of the least modernized. We're building the property data, analysis, and deal-flow platform for the people who move fastest in this market: investors, who face transaction friction weekly rather than once a decade. Our platform spans 175 million properties across every asset class, and we're rebuilding a brokerage model that hasn't fundamentally changed in half a century.

The Role

As a Senior Product Designer, you own the craft of Ruxlo's product experience across mobile and web. You take PRDs and turn them into interfaces investors trust with real money — whether they're running comps on a phone in the field or building a full deal model on desktop. You lead end-to-end design for complex, data-dense workflows, contribute to and help maintain our cross-platform design system, run the usability research that validates our assumptions, and partner closely with Product and Engineering inside our SDLC.

This is a senior individual-contributor role reporting to the Head of Product. You won't have direct reports, but you'll set the standard for design craft, mentor other designers, and be the person the team looks to when a workflow has to be right. It's a hands-on seat — you'll live in the pixels while owning the thinking behind them.

What You'll Do

Own product design across mobile and web. Lead the end-to-end user experience on both platforms — information architecture, interaction design, and visual design for complex, data-dense workflows (property search, deal analysis, comps, financial modeling) that must work as well on a phone in the field as on a desktop at the office. Decide what's mobile-first vs. desktop-first per workflow and own responsive and native interaction patterns.

Turn ideas into elegant, feasible designs. Translate user needs and business goals into intuitive, user-friendly solutions. Develop wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs in Claude Design and illustrate design thinking with storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps. Work closely with front-end engineers to ensure designs are implemented as intended and are technically feasible.

Contribute to the cross-platform design system. Help build and maintain a single source of truth in Claude Design — tokens, components, states, and usage documentation — that scales cleanly across mobile and web breakpoints, so engineering ships consistent, accessible UI without re-litigating patterns every sprint. Enforce WCAG 2.1 AA as a baseline (including mobile touch targets and gestures), not an afterthought.

Partner on the PRD and support the SDLC design stage. Contribute to the PRD process using the Ruxlo SDLC Playbook; produce the flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs — for both mobile and web — that make acceptance criteria unambiguous; participate in design reviews during Pass 1 Refinement; and generate developer handoff specs (including responsive behavior and platform-specific states) so engineering owns the how without guessing the what.

Run usability research. Personally run usability tests and design-validation interviews with real estate investors, lenders, and agents on a recurring cadence, across both mobile and desktop contexts. Build personas, user journeys, and workflows; analyze feedback, session recordings, and usage data; and synthesize what you observe into design decisions that actually change the product.

Measure and act on design quality. Track UX signals — task completion, time-to-insight, funnel drop-off, feature adoption — segmented by platform using Mixpanel alongside qualitative findings and use them to prioritize design debt and interface improvements on mobile and web.

Use AI to raise your velocity and quality. Leverage Claude across your workflow — stress-testing flows for edge cases, breakpoints, and accessibility gaps before code is written; drafting component documentation; synthesizing usability notes; and generating handoff specs — and help shape how AI is embedded across the design function.

Keep improving the craft. Stay current with design trends, UI/UX tooling, and SaaS best practices, and continually identify opportunities to improve the platform's usability, performance, and overall experience.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5–8 years of product design experience spanning both mobile and web, with a proven track record designing software interfaces — ideally for SaaS or B2B applications.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating shipped, data-dense product work — dashboards, complex tables, financial or analytical tooling — that shows your process and a user-centered approach to solving complex problems with simple, intuitive designs. Not just marketing pages or simple consumer flows.
• Expert-level Claude Design fluency — components, variants, tokens, auto-layout, responsive design, and handoff — and comfort walking through a recent file.
• Experience contributing to and helping maintain a cross-platform design system and defending design decisions to product and engineering partners.
• Fluency in platform conventions for both web (responsive/breakpoints) and mobile (iOS/Android patterns, touch, gestures), and a strong grasp of mobile-first design.
• Hands-on usability research experience — personally running tests, synthesizing findings, and changing design decisions because of what you observed.
• Deep fluency in accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) across mobile and web, and the ability to enforce them as a baseline.
• Comfort with product analytics (Mixpanel, Amplitude, or equivalent) to validate design decisions with behavioral data.
• Experience working closely with software development teams to ship scalable, user-friendly products, and a clear understanding of the boundary between design/product (the what) and engineering (the how).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills — you can articulate design rationale to design and non-design stakeholders alike.

Nice to Have

• Proptech, real estate, fintech, geospatial, or SaaS data-product design experience.
• Demonstrated use of LLM/AI tools across documentation, QA, research synthesis, and handoff with measurable velocity and quality outcomes.
• Front-end fluency (HTML/CSS, React, React Native, or Tailwind) sufficient to prototype for web and mobile and speak engineering's language.
• Experience designing regulated or high-trust financial workflows.
• Familiarity with Scrum ceremonies and working inside a defined SDLC.

Who You Are

Customer-obsessed. You live in the customer's world. Every design decision starts with “what does this unlock for the user?” and you're never more than a conversation away from real feedback.

Craft-obsessed. You treat the design system as a first-class artifact. Inconsistent spacing and vague states are bugs, and you hunt them down across every breakpoint before code gets written.

Decisive. You make design calls with incomplete information, own the trade-offs, and don't hide behind consensus. When you're wrong, you adjust fast.

Resilient. Startups are hard. Priorities shift, requirements evolve, and ambiguity is constant. You don't just tolerate this — you operate well within it.

Direct and low ego. You give and receive critique openly. You care more about the right answer than being right, and you respect engineering's call on feasibility without litigating it.

Self-directed. You don't wait to be told what to do. You see problems, propose solutions, and execute.

Massive market, real problem. The U.S. real estate data ecosystem is fragmented and outdated. We're building the infrastructure layer to fix it.

Early-stage impact. Your work will directly shape the product, the roadmap, and the company's trajectory.

Strong foundation. Experienced SaaS founder, proven team, and a clear product vision — not a science experiment.

AI-native from day zero. Not "we're adopting AI" — the company is organized around it, and product is where the leverage compounds.

Competitive compensation. Salary, equity, and benefits commensurate with experience and the stage of the company.

Ruxlo LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

AI disclosure: As part of our recruiting process, Ruxlo may use AI-assisted tools to help screen, review, and organize applications, as well as to support scheduling and communication. These tools assist our team and all final hiring decisions are made by humans. We work to ensure these tools are used fairly and without unlawful bias. If you have questions about how AI is used in your application, would like to request a reasonable accommodation or an alternative review process, please contact us at View phone number on ziprecruiter.com.