UI/UX Designer

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