Principal Product Designer

At Evolve we’re a hardworking team serious about hospitality. Our teams work every day to make vacation rental easy for everyone — from our owners who trust Evolve to build their business to our guests who rest easy with every stay to our Evolvers who make this difference a reality. Our values anchor our daily decisions and interactions with our customers, communities, and each other. Join our inclusive culture in one of the most rapidly-growing segments in travel. Find your home at Evolve.

Why this role

As Evolve continues to grow its network of vacation rental properties, we are leaning more heavily on our customer-facing experiences to serve the growing customer base of homeowners, network partners, and travelers. These product experiences need to live up to our brand mission to make vacation rental easy for everyone.

As a Principal Product Designer, you will operate at the Design Systems level yet be able to turn designs into smaller iterations. You will be responsible for creating and improving the user-experience across the entire Evolve portfolio. You will own design direction, drive innovation and creativity, and inspire product & engineering teams in building user centric products in an agile development organization. The experiences you design will exceed our customer expectations, meet stakeholder requirements, and drive business results.

What you’ll do

• Provide design mentorship to designers on your pillar and on the team
• Develop, own and execute quarterly roadmaps aligned with product priorities
• Provide pillar leadership and design oversight to others designers including assistance with scoping, work review, feedback, uplevelling skills
• Partner with department leadership to define processes and strategies for the design team to better integrate into project teams
• As a subject matter expert, provide leadership in creating a user-centric design culture by bringing processes and frameworks that increase the quality of user experience across all products
• Translate user problems and business concepts into user flows, wireframes, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences
• Accountable for design delivery across your pillar
• Lead the scope, prioritization, and allocation of designers for pillar design work
• Create, prototype, user test, iterate and deliver detailed designs to product and engineering teams that are optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
• Build and enforce systems and practices that keep experiences consistent across our React and Salesforce Community products 

What makes you a great fit

• 8+ years of relevant work experience with UX, with well-rounded expertise in visual and interaction design and a deep understanding of front end development
• 1+ year of experience mentoring and coaching designers preferred 
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and an understanding of responsive design
• Experience gathering user feedback and conducting research through surveys, user testing, a/b testing, rapid prototyping
• Ability to translate requirements and research and generate multiple solutions to a given problem
• Proven track record in building consumer experiences on web and mobile that are designed for conversion

Location 

Evolve has a flexible working environment so teammates can work remotely anywhere in the state of Colorado, in our beautiful downtown Denver office, remotely or a hybrid of both! 

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Compensation

For this role our salary range is $157,000 - $181,000, depending on relevant experience.  This role will also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on both company and individual performance.

Additional compensation details: 

Equity: 75% of salary equivalent RSUs

Variable comp: 15% of salary target

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How we reward Evolvers

Evolvers have access to highly competitive benefits and rewards that support their whole well-being so they can focus on bringing their best selves to work. 

Financial

• Industry competitive pay, including equity in the company for all Evolvers
• 401(k) with a 4% match that vests immediately

Family

• 6 weeks of paid parental leave for birth and non-birth parents
• Infertility coverage
• Child care discounts and locator support 
• Pet insurance to cover your furry children

Well-being