At Side, we believe everyone should own their path. Side partners with top-producing real estate professionals to help them own and operate their own boutique real estate companies, without the legal, regulatory, or operational complexity of running a traditional brokerage. As a pioneer in the Brokerage-as-a-Service model, Side provides a proprietary platform that increases efficiency, strengthens client relationships, and enables entrepreneurs to focus on what they do best — selling real estate and growing their businesses. Headquartered in San Francisco and backed by more than $300 million from top-tier venture capital firms, Side is recognized as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing companies in real estate. At Side, you’ll work alongside experienced industry leaders and world-class engineers to help shape the future of real estate and empower exceptional professionals to thrive as business owners. About the Role

Side is looking for a Senior Product Designer who can take ownership of complex product problems and drive design from discovery through launch. This role requires someone who understands when to operate independently and when to partner closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to shape the right solutions.

You will lead design efforts across initiatives, using customer research, product data, and strong product intuition to guide decisions. The right candidate is comfortable running research, synthesizing insights, and translating them into practical product improvements.

We’re looking for someone who is both strategic and hands-on: a designer who uses design thinking and data to inform their process and can produce high-quality UI.

This role also requires curiosity and continuous learning. We want someone who actively explores new tools, technologies, and methods—including thoughtful use of AI—to improve how problems are understood and solved.

This is a hybrid role based in our San Francisco headquarters. To foster collaboration and maintain our fast-paced culture, we require 2 days per week in the office.

What You’ll Be Doing

Own design projects end-to-end, from discovery through final implementation

Partner closely with product managers and engineers to define problems, shape product strategy, and deliver solutions

Use data, analytics, and customer insights to inform design decisions

Plan and run user research, including interviews, usability testing, and concept validation

Design intuitive, high-quality product experiences across complex workflows

Contribute to and evolve the design system, leveraging existing components and proposing new variants when needed

Facilitate workshops or collaborative sessions when alignment or ideation is needed

Advocate for user-centered thinking throughout the product development process

What Would Make You a Strong Fit

4+ years of product design experience shipping digital products

Comfortable owning ambiguous problems and driving work independently

Strong collaboration skills with product managers, engineers, and other partners

Experience using product data and user insights to guide design decisions

Experience planning and conducting user research studies

Strong UI craft; able to work within established components and expand them thoughtfully

Experience designing complex workflows and systems-level experiences

Clear communicator who can explain design decisions and tradeoffs

Experience working in fast-moving startup or high-ownership environments

Curiosity and growth mindset; actively learning new tools, methods, and technologies

Thoughtful use of AI tools to support research, analysis, or problem framing (not as a replacement for design thinking)

Highly proficient with modern design tools (Figma or similar)

Side is dedicated to working with the highest skilled people from the most inclusive talent pool feasible. We maintain that diversity in all aspects leads to positive change, solutions and innovation for our customers and career fulfillment for our employees. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply!

Side uses the E-Verify employment verification program.

Our stewardship of the data of many of our customers means that a background and DRE license check is required to join Side. We will, nonetheless, consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accord with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Senior Product Designer

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