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Senior Product Designer, Foundations (Hybrid)

Homebase · San Francisco, CA · Today
HybridArt & CreativeFull-time

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer, Foundations who thrives at the intersection of systems thinking and product craft. You'll be a design partner for our foundations team—shaping foundational experiences that every user touches, but few teams own: authentication, billing, permissions, compliance, and more—across iOS, Android, and web.

Responsibilities

  • Work alongside our Principal Designer (Design Systems) and UX Engineer to contribute components, patterns, and documentation—helping the system scale with quality as our product suite grows.
  • Use AI tools to accelerate design exploration, iteration, and quality—while applying strong judgment to ensure output meets a high craft bar.
  • Tackle platform experiences end-to-end: Design for critical horizontal surfaces—auth flows, billing & subscriptions, account settings, permissions, team management, and compliance touchpoints—with a strong emphasis on native mobile experiences (iOS and Android), ensuring patterns feel intuitive, polished, and platform-appropriate.
  • Partner with PMs across these areas to ship work that matters.
  • Turn "necessary" into "delightful": Transform utilitarian platform experiences into moments that reinforce trust and reflect our brand.
  • Lead with mobile craft: Bring a high bar for interaction design and visual polish on native platforms, ensuring experiences feel intentional—not generic or pattern-default.
  • Bridge design and engineering: Partner closely with platform engineers and our UX Engineer, using prototypes and specs to validate decisions and ensure implementation matches intent.
  • Work across product teams to ensure platform experiences feel cohesive across all surfaces and that your design system contributions serve real needs—not hypothetical ones.
  • Flex where the team needs you: Platform work is varied by nature. You'll shift between beautiful UI design, systems contributions, and product work based on what's highest impact, embracing the breadth rather than resisting it.
  • Grow your craft and influence: This role offers real opportunity to deepen your skills in both systematic design thinking and end-to-end product ownership, with mentorship from senior design leadership.

Requirements

  • 4–7 years designing digital products, with demonstrated strength in visual/interaction design and growing systems thinking.
  • You're building toward mastery of both.
  • Exposure to design systems: You've contributed to design systems—building components, using tokens, writing documentation, or collaborating closely with a systems team. You understand the tradeoffs between flexibility and consistency.
  • Platform or infrastructure design experience (a plus): You've designed for auth, billing, settings, admin tools, or other "horizontal" product areas—or you're excited to dive into this space.
  • Technical curiosity: You can collaborate effectively with engineers. Whether that means understanding constraints, prototyping with real interactions in Figma, or reviewing implementations—you bridge the gap.
  • Exceptional craft: Your work demonstrates a high level of polish—strong typography, spacing, hierarchy, and interaction design. You care deeply about the details that make products feel great.
  • Comfort with range and context-switching: You enjoy moving between different types of problems—system work, product design, and UI refinement—and can maintain quality across all of them.
  • Clear communication: You can articulate design rationale, give and receive feedback gracefully, and document your decisions for teammates present and future.
  • Cross-platform design chops: Your portfolio includes iOS, Android, and web work. You know when to honor platform conventions and when to unify for brand consistency.
  • Strong native mobile experience. Your portfolio includes high-quality work on iOS and/or Android. You understand platform conventions and design interactions that feel polished, intuitive, and intentional.
  • AI fluency: You actively use AI tools in your design workflow (e.g., for exploration, iteration, or production). You’re curious, experimental, and energized by how AI can improve speed and quality.

Qualifications

  • Experience at high-growth startups where you've worn multiple hats.
  • Background in fintech, HR tech, or B2B SaaS with complex permissioning.
  • Familiarity with accessibility standards and inclusive design practices.
  • Experience designing for compliance contexts (SOC 2, GDPR, etc.).
  • Comfort with or curiosity about front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).

Skills

  • Strong native mobile experience.
  • AI fluency.
  • Exceptional craft.
  • Clear communication.
  • Cross-platform design chops.
  • Technical curiosity.
  • Comfort with range and context-switching.
  • Experience at high-growth startups.
  • Background in fintech, HR tech, or B2B SaaS.
  • Familiarity with accessibility standards and inclusive design practices.
  • Experience designing for compliance contexts.
  • Comfort with or curiosity about front-end technologies.

Benefits

Ownership & Financial Security: Stock options + 401(k) with 4% match
Comprehensive Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision coverage + FSA options
Flexible Time: Unlimited PTO (salaried) + company holidays
AI Access, For Real: We invest in builders and believe that curiosity shouldn't have a paywall. That means you'll have access to paid AI tools with minimal restrictions, so you can build, experiment, and level up your craft.
Family Support: Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave (after 6 months of service)
Protection Plans: Life insurance + short/long-term disability coverage
Workspace Perks: Meals provided, commuter benefits, team offsites, and Customer Days
Our Hybrid Rhythm: We believe collaboration drives impact. That’s why Tuesdays and Wednesdays are our required in-office days—a time to move faster as a team, build deeper connections, make better decisions, and build together.

Pay

Competitive salary and equity compensation package.

Schedule

Full-time, salaried position.

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