Staff Design Technologist / Creative Technologist

About RentSpree

RentSpree is the nation's leading home rental software. Our award-winning product suite simplifies the entire rental journey—from applications and screening to payments and lease management. Our mission is to bring transparency, efficiency, and trust to agents, landlords, and renters alike.

With over 3 million users, partnerships with 300+ leading real estate companies and MLS platforms, and nine years of consistent growth, RentSpree is at the forefront of proptech innovation. Our award-winning solutions deliver automation and real-time insights that make renting faster, easier, and more secure for our customers.

RentSpree is a proud Forbes' Best Startup Employer and we were also ranked one of BuiltIn Seattle’s Best Places to Work. As one of the fastest-growing property tech startups in the U.S., we’re looking for talented problem-solvers to contribute meaningful impact as we scale. 

Staff Design Technologist / Creative Technologist - Seattle, WA (Hybrid)

Join the Product Experience Design (PXD) department at RentSpree as a Staff Design Technologist! You will play a pivotal role in transforming how we approach design systems, AI integration, customer facing experiences, and design productivity tools. This role will be instrumental in delivering department goals through self-serve tools, design and research productivity enhancements, and cutting-edge AI integrations with our front-end.

This position offers a unique opportunity to lead a small but mighty team (1 design technologist and 1 visual designer) while pioneering the future of AI-assisted design workflows, and customer experience. You'll work at the forefront of design systems evolution, creating adaptive experience systems that learn, optimize, and evolve. If you're excited about building the bridge between design and technology—and you're passionate about applying AI research to revolutionize CX, and creative workflows, we want you! Bring your innovative mindset and technical expertise to shape the future of product experiences at RentSpree.

This role is based in Seattle with at least 2 days per week in-office.

What You'll Do

• AI-Driven Design System Leadership: Lead the evolution of our design system from static component libraries to adaptive, AI-powered experience systems. Transform our design tokens with semantic naming systems that enable LLMs and RAG systems to better understand, assemble, and optimize UI patterns.
• Team Leadership & Development: Manage and mentor a focused team of design professionals (1 design technologist, 1 visual designer), fostering innovation while maintaining high standards for design system implementation and tool development.
• Design Systems Architecture: Own the design system roadmap, developing component libraries, design tokens, pattern documentation, and self-serve tools that scales across Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success teams. Make systems "AI-readable" through metadata, tokens, and semantic tagging.
• AI Integration & Automation: Pioneer AI adoption in design workflows, establishing frameworks that provide design inspection, usability audits, friction logs, and automated improvement suggestions.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work autonomously on high-impact projects while collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Data teams where dependencies exist. Bridge technical and creative domains to accelerate product innovation.
• Productivity Tool Development: Create self-serve design tools and templates that enable non-designers across the organization to maintain brand consistency and design quality.
• Future-Forward Innovation: Drive research and implementation of behavior-driven UI that adapts based on user context, personalization layers, and agentic orchestration—moving from fixed variants to dynamic, intelligent experiences.
• Quality Assurance & Standards: Establish design quality metrics, automated testing protocols, and continuous improvement processes that reduce rework and increase design velocity.

Our job descriptions evolve with our business needs and priorities. In addition to the description above, your role may include additional tasks, projects and team support as needed.

Skills You Bring

Education & Experience: