Boom

Product Designer

Austin Texas. Posted 2 months ago

The role

You will own design for key parts of BoomScreen, including tenant screening and applicant verification products. You will work with product managers and engineers to turn user and business needs into intuitive experiences across web and mobile.

What you will do

  • Design intuitive experiences across BoomScreen's web and mobile products
  • Turn ambiguous problems into user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes in Figma
  • Partner closely with engineers from early concepts through implementation
  • Incorporate feedback from product, engineering, and other stakeholders into design revisions
  • Work within and help evolve Boom's design system
  • Take ownership of assigned design work, surface problems, and propose solutions
  • Share work early and often for feedback from the team

Required qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience in product/UX design, ideally on digital products with both web and mobile surfaces
  • Strong proficiency with Figma
  • Solid grounding in user flows, wireframing, prototyping, and usability feedback
  • Experience working directly with engineers to take designs from concept to shipped product
  • Understanding of design systems and how to design within (and extend) a component library
  • Strong communication skills, including explaining design decisions and taking feedback from stakeholders
  • Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-moving startup environment
  • A portfolio link with your application

Nice to have

  • Experience at an early-stage startup
  • Experience designing for fintech, proptech, or other regulated products
  • Basic technical fluency - comfortable discussing APIs and frontend/backend constraints with engineers
  • Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system
  • Familiarity with tools like Jira and PostHog

Benefits

  • Competitive salary with stock options
  • Full healthcare coverage (health, dental, vision) including 50% coverage for dependents
  • 15 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year
  • 5 sick days
  • All US federal holidays (11 in total)
  • Company-issued laptop/MacBook
  • Company-sponsored training & development
  • Regular off-sites, retreats, and other company-sponsored events and travel opportunities

About the company

Boom is building a suite of rental financial services for renters and property managers. It is led by second-time founder Rob Whiting and is backed by investors such as Starting Line, Clocktower Ventures, and Gilgamesh Ventures.

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