Product Designer

Landlord Studio is the world’s best property management and financial tracking solution for “do-it-yourself” landlords. We have customers across 60+ countries and have been tried and trusted by 80,000+ landlords.

Our customers are our top priority, and we believe that a seamless and memorable customer experience is driven by the employee experience that our people have within Landlord Studio. We live and breath our values, including ‘Bring your whole self to work’. We celebrate the things that make us individual at Landlord Studio and believe that better decisions are made and better products are created when people can be themselves.

We’re not your average tech company. We’re a high growth and agile software company that draws experience from both the real estate and financial services sector. We’ve been backed by prominent VC investors, including Australia’s own Blackbird Ventures. We hire people who make the most of their time at Landlord Studio and are able to balance their personal and professional priorities well. We truly look after our people, so at Landlord Studio you can expect a competitive remuneration and a great work culture.

What you’ll do

As a product designer, you’ll need to take complex industry needs and simplify them with elegant designs and interactions. We’re looking for an intermediate – senior level product designer with a love for designing beautiful and engaging experiences to continue taking our property management and financial tracking software to the next level.

We need someone with deep empathy for our customers and a desire to help them be successful. You’ll have impressive design skills, excellent taste, and always be on the lookout for how we can better serve and delight our users.

You will be working closely with our product owner and developers in an agile environment to help craft improvements and additions to the Landlord Studio product that delivers real benefits to our customers and their clients.

Responsibilities

• Design compelling user experiences end-to-end for the Landlord Studio platform
• Collaborate with product owners to understand and define the specific user problems/needs
• Talk to and visit our customers to better understand their experiences and the environments in which your designs will be used
• Create prototypes to test assumptions and quickly demonstrate your ideas
• Craft beautiful interfaces in collaboration with our developers, always striving for that sweet spot of beautifully designed, easy to use, and feasible to implement
• Promote and encourage user testing of in-progress work
• Advocate for the best outcome for our users
• Give and receive feedback from other product team members
• Collaborate with other team members to ensure a consistent experience is delivered across the Landlord Studio platform

Requirements

• Has experience designing for SaaS products across native mobile applications and web
• Can solve complex problems with elegant design flows and interactions
• Able to produce low-fidelity prototypes to start conversations
• Expertise in a visual design tool – Sketch or equivalent
• Self-motivated and pragmatic – you love working in a fast-paced environment and understand how to balance competing priorities
• Excellent communication skills – you will be able to clearly present your ideas and rationale from a remote work setting
• Empathy for our customers – you will be able to deeply understand our users, their environment, the issues they face, and how Landlord Studio can help them be more successful

Benefits

• This is a permanent, full-time position based in Auckland (we are looking at new office space so come help kit it out!)
• Share options, our success is your success.
• We provide all the shiny new equipment you’ll need
• Start date ASAP
• You must be legally entitled to work in NZ
• Applications close when we find the right person!

If you’ve made it this far, we want to hear from you! Apply now by emailing us your CV and a brief cover letter.