Lead Product Designer - Rentals

This posting will be open until October 31, 2026. Applications received after this date may not be considered. 

Redfin and Rocket are rebuilding the rental experience from the ground up. Rentals is one of the largest, most fragmented corners of real estate — millions of renters every month navigating a search-to-lease journey that is slow, opaque, and disconnected from everything that comes next. We have the audience, the data, and the distribution to fix it. What we don't have yet is the product.

As Lead Product Designer for Rentals, you’ll be the founding design voice on a business we’re rebuilding from zero to one, serving renters (B2C) and the property managers and landlords who list to them (B2B). We’re building the B2B side from the ground up, so you’ll have real say in what it becomes. You’ll partner directly with the Director of Product, Rentals, and a small, senior engineering team to define what we build, prove it fast, and ship it to a real audience at real scale. This is a true greenfield mandate with the backing of a company that already reaches 50M+ monthly visitors.

We're looking for someone who works fast and modern. The designers doing the best work right now are using AI to compress the distance between an idea and something real — generating and pressure-testing concepts in hours, building working prototypes instead of static flows, and spending the time they save on judgment and craft. We want someone who already works this way and will raise the ceiling for how the rest of the team does, too.

About the role

• Own end-to-end design for the Rentals experience for both renters and property managers — from the first search to a signed lease.
• Set the product vision for a business that doesn't exist yet: define the bets worth making, make them concrete enough to argue about, and sequence the path from first shippable thing to category-defining product.
• Move from idea to evidence fast. Use AI and prototyping tools to put real, testable artifacts in front of users and stakeholders in days rather than weeks, and let what you learn reshape the plan.
• Partner with the Director of Product, Rentals as a true peer — co-owning strategy, scope, and tradeoffs rather than receiving requirements.
• Design the B2B experience from scratch, including the tools property managers use to list, manage, and connect with renters.
• Ground decisions in both numbers and people. Run lightweight research, read the funnel, and know which signal to trust when they disagree.
• Build on our design system where it serves renters, and make the case for departing from it where it doesn't.

About you

• 8+ years as a product designer, with a portfolio of shipped products you can speak to in depth — what you decided, what you got wrong, and what the work actually did for users and the business.
• You've done zero-to-one work before and know how it differs from optimizing something mature. You're comfortable making decisions on incomplete information and changing your mind when the data arrives.
• AI-native in practice, not in theory. You use AI tools daily in your design process and can show us how. You have a point of view on where they help, where they don't, and how designers should be working two years from now.
• A systems thinker who can hold a multi-sided marketplace in your head — renters, property managers, listings, and the rest of the Redfin and Rocket ecosystem.
• Exceptional craft. You care about the details that make a product feel trustworthy, and you can defend why they matter to people who'd rather ship without them.
• A compelling communicator who can make a vision legible to engineers, executives, and skeptics — and move a room with it.
• Scrappy and self-directed. You'd rather build the thing than write the deck about the thing.
• Genuinely interested in renters. The people using this product are often at their most stressed and least served. That should feel like an opportunity to you.
• Experience with marketplaces or B2B products is a plus. You can hold a multi-sided system in your head: renters, property managers, listings, and the rest of the Redfin and Rocket ecosystem.

What you’ll get 

Our team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too! We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life. We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind. Simply put: We’ve got your back. Check out our full list of Benefits and Perks.

About us

Redfin is a technology-driven real estate company with the country's most-visited real estate brokerage website. As part of Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT), Redfin is creating an integrated homeownership platform from search to close to make the dream of homeownership more affordable and accessible for everyone. Redfin’s clients can see homes first with on-demand tours, easily apply for a home loan with Rocket Mortgage, and save thousands in fees while working with a top local agent. 

The compensation information below is provided in compliance with all applicable job posting disclosure requirements. The compensation for this position is $180,700.00-$244,500.00. The position may also be eligible for an annual bonus, incentives, and other employment-related benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K retirement plan, and paid-time off. More information regarding these benefits and others can be found here. The information regarding compensation and other benefits included in this paragraph is the company’s current, good faith estimate at the time of posting. [Compensation and benefits are subject to modification from time to time as the Company, in its sole and exclusive discretion, deems appropriate.] The Company may determine during its future reviews of the proposed compensation and benefits provided for this position, that the compensation and benefits for such position should be reduced. In no event will the Company reduce the compensation for the position to a level below the applicable jurisdictional minimum wage rate for the position. Los Angeles County and San Francisco Candidates only: qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment per the Fair Chance Ordinance and the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.