HousingWire is seeking a UI/UX Designer who can bridge product thinking, user empathy, and high-quality visual execution. The role involves designing user-centered experiences across various products and collaborating closely with product managers and engineers to improve user interactions and drive business growth.
Responsibilities:
- Design intuitive, user-centered experiences across web and product surfaces
- Evaluate and improve the user experience across our portfolio of brands, identifying opportunities to unify experiences and create flywheel effects between products
- Translate complex data and workflows into simple, usable interfaces
- Create wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs
- Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders
- Contribute to and evolve our design system and UI standards
- Conduct lightweight user research and usability testing to inform decisions
- Use data and user behavior to iterate and improve performance
- Ensure consistency across experiences while adapting to different use cases
- Support cross-functional initiatives where UX impacts growth, engagement, or retention
Requirements:
- 3–6+ years of experience in UI/UX, product design, or interaction design
- Strong portfolio demonstrating both UX thinking and polished UI execution
- Experience designing for web-based products, SaaS platforms, or data tools
- Ability to simplify complex problems into clear, usable solutions
- Comfort working cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business teams
- Proficiency in tools like Figma (or similar) for design and prototyping
- Strong communication skills — you can explain why, not just what
- You are a problem solver first, designer second
- You don't just take requirements — you challenge and improve them
- You are comfortable working in a fast-moving, evolving environment
- Experience in media, data, real estate, or financial services
- Experience using Mixpanel and Sanity to elevate user behavior and inform UX improvements
- Experience contributing to or building design systems
- Exposure to AI-powered product experiences