Lead Product Designer
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Job Location:
Brooklyn, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Us
Block is a renovation platform transforming the $500 billion renovation industry. Our mission is to enable millions of homeowners to create spaces they love and thousands of contractors to build thriving businesses. Were well on our way serving customers from coast to coast with our technology platform and contractor network.
Overview
This is the most senior designer on our product team. You wont be executing someone elses vision youll be shaping what Blocks product becomes. From the first moment a homeowner imagines their renovation to the day their contractor finishes the job youll own how that experience looks works and feels.
Block is looking for a Lead Product Designer who will be responsible for shaping the customer-facing product experience for homeowners navigating one of the most complex purchases of their lives. Youll use AI tools to turn design ideas into working prototypes contribute to production through pull requests and build the design systems that make our product feel cohesive and intentional at every touchpoint.
At Block designers use prototypes to explore and validate ideasnot just communicate them. Your ability to use AI tools like Claude Code Cursor and Loveable to go from initial concept to working prototype sets you apart. Theyre not a curiositytheyre core to how we design build and ship. If youve already been working this way we want to talk to you.
This position reports to the SVP of Product & Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end design of customer-facing experiencesfrom early concept through shipped code
- Prototype in code using tools like Claude Code and Cursor. Youll go from rough idea to working prototype in hours not days. Figma is part of your toolkit but your instinct is to build something real before creating something static
- Collaborate closely with engineers in the codebaseiterating on designs pushing pull requests and working as a peer rather than a handoff partner
- Build and maintain our design system within our codebase not just using Figma libraries
- Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering to shape squad goals scope work and deliver against our ambitious roadmap
- Advocate for the customer in every conversation grounding design decisions in real user needs not assumptions
- Contribute to design crits and product reviews maintaining a high bar for quality and consistency
Qualifications
- 8 years of product design experience with meaningful time spent shipping code not just handing off designs for engineers to build
- Comfort with modern frontend developmentReact or React Native. You dont need to be a senior engineer but you can read write and push code with confidence
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted prototypingyou can take a design idea and produce a working prototype in a single sitting. Well ask you to show us during the interview process
- Systems thinking and surface-level craft. You about building scalable maintainable design patterns and achieving pixel perfection on a single screen
- Strong product instincts and comfort working across engineering product and design to solve complex problems
- Experience building or contributing to design systems in code (component libraries tokens documentation)
- Comfort with ambiguityyoull sometimes need to define the problem before you solve it
Nice to have:
- Experience in a startup or growth-stage environment where you wore multiple hats
- Familiarity with home renovation real estate or construction
- A portfolio that shows code artifacts alongside design artifactsGitHub contributions shipped products or projects built with AI tools
- Experience with accessibility standards and inclusive design practices
- Familiarity with our current stack ( TypeScript React Feathers )
How Well Evaluate You
Our interview process includes a live exercise where youll build something using AI tools. We want to see how you think how you work with these tools and how you make design decisions in real time. Were not testing whether you can memorize syntaxwere watching for taste speed and judgment.
Compensation & Benefits
Block wants all employees to be supported in their personal and professional development so we take a comprehensive approach to compensation and benefits.
- Earn equity in an early-stage high-growth company
- Subsidized health insurance dental and vision coverage
- Flexible work environment with a hybrid schedule and work from anywhere time
- PTO and company holidays
- 12 weeks universal fully paid family leave
- 401k retirement savings plan with matching employer contribution
- HSA with employer contribution & FSA plan
- Budgeted learning and development stipend
- The tools you need to do your best work (including AI tool subscriptions)
- Working alongside an ambitious kind no-drama team
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- InVision
- Interaction Design
- Ux
- Usability
- Visual Design
- Design Thinking
- Zeplin
- User Research
- UI
- IOS
- Figma
- Sketch
About Company
Streamline your renovation with Block's vetted contractor network, digital tools, and range of optional support packages. Get an estimate today.
