Lead Product Designer Job at Home From College, California

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  • Home From College
  • California

Job Description

Company Overview

Home From College (H\FC) is a marketplace that connects college students with brands offering paid gigs, internships, and early-career opportunities. For students, we're often the first real bridge between college and the working world. For brands, we're how they reach a generation that's hard to reach anywhere else.

We're in full growth mode, focused on getting the H\FC App into the hands of every college student in the country and turning first-time users into repeat GIG completers. We're at the stage where every shipped feature reaches real users quickly.  The product and design decisions made now will define our trajectory, and we're building out the product team with A players. 

The Role

We're hiring a Lead Product Designer to own the end-to-end user experience across H\FC.

You'll work across the full product lifecycle: understanding user needs, designing new features and workflows, partnering closely with engineering through implementation, and measuring adoption, usability, and user feedback after launch. You'll use those insights to continuously refine and improve the product over time.

You'll also work with Product Marketing to ensure new features and functionality are clearly communicated and effectively showcased to users.

Design at H\FC isn't just about execution. You'll play an active role in shaping product decisions and helping ensure we build experiences that are intuitive, useful, and impactful.

What You'll Do

  • Own H\FC's product UX end-to-end across desktop and mobile app.

  • Design features start to finish: flows, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity mocks

  • Build and maintain H\FC's design system, UX patterns, and visual language

  • Partner with the team to shape and design features from problem framing through shipped experience

  • Work directly with engineering throughout the build — catch edge cases, make calls the spec didn't cover, ship with quality

  • Partner with marketing on launches, landing pages, and how features show up to users

  • Run research with students and brands to test assumptions and refine flows

  • Contribute to design beyond the core product when needed — marketing assets, landing pages, brand polish

  • Be a strong voice for the user and raise the bar for design quality across everything H\FC ships

What We're Looking For

  • 7+ years of product design experience, ideally including time at an early-stage startup

  • Background designing consumer apps, consumer software, or marketplace products

  • Strong design tool fluency — you can move from sketch to high-fidelity quickly

  • Comfort with design tools for product spec designing

  • Comfort using AI tools in your design process, or experience designing AI-native features

  • Experience building or contributing to a design system

  • End-to-end product thinking — your portfolio shows problem framing, tradeoffs, and shipped outcomes, not just polished screens

  • Sharp product judgment — you advocate for UX without becoming a blocker, and you know when to push and when to ship

  • Self-directed — comfortable owning ambiguity without management overhead

  • Clear communicator with engineers, leadership, and non-designers alike

Bonus Points

  • Two-sided marketplace experience

  • Familiarity with college students, Gen Z, or early-career audiences

  • "First designer" or "founding designer" experience at a previous startup

What We Offer 

  • Competitive annual base compensation
  • Equity Option Award Compensation 
  • Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Plan
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Laptop and WFH setup reimbursement
  • Hybrid office environment in Santa Monica

Job Tags

Work at office, Work from home

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