Senior Product Designer

Realtor.com’s Avail team is hiring a Senior Product Designer in Austin, Texas to partner closely with a Product Manager and engineers and guide the majority of the design work for a cross-functional product squad. This embedded role focuses on shaping the full design journey from early exploration and just enough research through polished interfaces shipped to landlords and renters.

Role Overview

As the primary designer on your squad, you will contribute design thinking and execution from conception to completion. You will work directly with your Product Manager and engineers, supporting initial research and understanding of user problems, scoping efforts, creation of user journeys, and delivery of polished pixels shipped to landlords and renters who use Avail every day.

This role supports a product-led, end-to-end design expectation. You will be comfortable handling most responsibilities across the full design process for the product or feature your squad is shipping, with oversight and assistance from senior design leaders when needed. Senior design mentors will be assigned to help you grow, collaborate, and strengthen your craft.

Responsibilities

• Partner with your Product Manager and engineers to represent the user perspective, exploring multiple ideas while knowing when to transition to executable deliverables
• Collaborate with stakeholders including researchers, product leaders, engineers, product marketing, brand, and other designers to address complex problems
• Work with cross-functional partners to develop solutions that materially improve the user experience across the products your squad supports
• Lead most aspects of the design process from start to finish, with support from senior design leaders
• Explain the value of design and the rationale behind design decisions to design leaders, peers, and the product squad
• Seek and incorporate design feedback with professionalism and patience, demonstrating improvement based on input
• Use the design system and ensure accurate, high-quality component application, while identifying needs for new patterns

Requirements

• 8+ years working in the design industry
• 3+ years working in a product-led organization
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Portfolio demonstrating a growing design point of view, including examples of interaction flows, prototyping, and high-fidelity work
• Familiarity with user-centric processes and design thinking principles
• Experience collaborating on cross-disciplined teams
• Clear communication skills
• Informed and strong opinions, held loosely
• Demonstrates a We, Not Me attitude

About Avail

Avail is a SaaS platform for independent landlords managing 1 to 10 units and their renters. The product suite supports listings, tenant screening, leasing, rent collection, and maintenance, with additional products serving the renter side of the marketplace.

Design work supports both sides of the landlord-renter relationship, balancing distinct needs within a connected experience.

The Squad

• Embedded within a cross-functional product squad alongside engineers and a Product Manager
• Operates as peers, not a support function
• Brings a design perspective to squad rituals, planning, and problem-solving from day one, rather than executing specs independently
• Squad discovers, defines, and delivers solutions together, with ownership of design direction for your area of the product

Work Style

Avail balances creativity and innovation with in-person collaboration. For most roles, employees work four or more days in the office to collaborate in-person and strengthen team connection and culture.

Benefits

• 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 a 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