Senior Product Designer

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Job description

Rabbet is looking for a talented Mid-Senior level Product Designer to join our Austin, Texas-based team in building intelligent software that simplifies construction lending. We are in need of an enthusiastic self-starter that is capable of designing pragmatic solutions to user problems.

As a startup, we pride ourselves on our pragmatism. We try to focus on directly answering user problems and focusing on building solutions that deliver the most value to a user rather than trying to make features that need to be "perfect".

We are on an ongoing journey of building out more robust user research processes, and a designer with experience in running user research would be a definite plus.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

* Empathetically understand our users and drive empathy throughout our product team by acting as the voice of our users.
* Push to gain a deeper understanding of why we're building what we're building.

* Build mockups and design solutions that take into mind a pragmatic understanding of

* user empathy
* user value / priorities
* difficulty / effort to build
* consistency & scalability with our design system

* Communicate and collaborate around designs through critique, brainstorming or other team discovery methods.
* Communicate, collaborate and support designs through development and QA. Working with the dev and QA team to not only build the solution but to understand what and why they're building it.

Requirements

* Portfolio demonstrating an ability to understand complex user problems and build scalable solutions
* The ability to think pragmatically about a problem and design solutions that maximize user value & minimize the effort to build
* Ability to give and receive critique and have nuanced conversations around technical and complex functionality.

BONUS SKILLS (NOT NECESSARY TO APPLY)

* Experience running user research exercises.
* Experience working on a b2b product especially in finance or construction.
* Experience working at a startup

Benefits

We offer competitive pay and benefits, plus equity. Despite being a startup, we do value work/life balance.

Rabbet is an equal opportunity employer

About Rabbet:

Through our core values of Relationships and Transparency, Rabbet strives to create an inclusive workplace where we welcome persons of all backgrounds. Rabbet is an equal opportunity employer regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or age. Despite being a startup, we do value work/life balance and we offer competitive pay, benefits, and equity.

At Rabbet, we aim to connect people and data to streamline construction finances. Lenders and real estate developers use Rabbet to manage their construction finance for projects from $500,000 to over $500 million. A rabbet is a joint in woodworking and as rabbets strengthen connections in woodworking, Rabbet works to strengthen connections in construction lending.

Rabbet is backed by a leading FinTech VC (QED), a leading real estate tech VC (Camber Creek), a large strategic investor (Goldman Sachs), and Y Combinator. Youll be joining a company that values efficiency, guidance, transparency, and relationships. Were a small team (~20 employees), so theres plenty of opportunity to have a big impact.

We commit to our customers - and the construction lending industry as a whole - to walk side-by-side through the continual evolution of the construction financing process. We combine deep domain expertise and technology to bring forward innovation in construction finance.