Principal Product Designer

About Us
At Homebase, our mission is to make hourly work easier for local businesses and hourly workers. Homebase currently serves more than 100,000 small (but mighty) businesses with everything they need to manage their hourly teams: employee scheduling, time clocks, payroll, team communication, hiring, onboarding, and compliance. 

We’re currently hiring (hybrid, remote, and in-office) in Houston, TX, Denver, CO, and Toronto, CA. 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Homebase At Homebase, we take pride in fostering a welcoming space where every Homie of every gender, age, orientation, culture, and walk of life can be their full selves. Diverse perspectives empower us to build the best-in-class platform for small businesses and hourly shift workers. We recognize that experience comes in many forms, so if you think you’re close to what we’re looking for (even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications), we encourage you to apply!

You
We are looking for skilled and mission-driven Product Designers who want to make a difference in the lives of the small business owners and employees we serve. You’ll report to our Senior Director of Product Design, and be an integral part of growing our design culture and practice at Homebase. In your day-to-day, you’ll embed with a cross-functional team alongside Engineering, Product, and Data to shape the Homebase roadmap and deliver meaningful outcomes for our customers.

As a Principal Product Designer, you will spearhead the design vision for all of Homebase’s offerings, in partnership with the Sr. Director, while also going deep in your own focus area. You’ll look proactively across our different product areas to define how our offerings work together. You’ll take a leadership role in design critique, and help shape the long-term vision for the Homebase Design Team as well as your focus area, influencing your colleagues through qualitative and quantitative data.

Qualifications:

• You’ve owned design projects from concept to implementation through sound research, discovery, collaboration, iteration, and partnering with Engineers during execution.
• You’ve shipped not just individual features, but entire end-to-end experiences across web and mobile that start from understanding user needs and contexts.
• You can not only articulate your target UX metrics but also define and build to test them.
• You have a wide range of early-stage UX practices in your toolkit. Examples could include (but are not limited to) task flows, wire-framing, low-fidelity prototyping, workshop facilitation, design research, and final visual polish.
• You’re able to articulate your design choices with peers and stakeholders clearly and are skilled at giving and receiving design feedback.
• You have foundational UI skills and understand the principles of typography, color, layout, and visual rhythm.
• You’ve demonstrated that you can balance speed and quality, always keeping our customers’ needs central to your work.
• You demonstrate a sense of ownership and accountability for the team’s work and outcomes — the good and the bad.
• Have a learning mindset. You are intellectually curious with a desire to learn and develop continuously.
• You demonstrate humility, knowing that our work isn’t about us; it’s about building in service to our customers. You share credit with team members, and welcome collaboration, ideas, and feedback.

Desired Qualifications: 

• 7+ years of experience in UX-focused product design experience
• Significant experience leading customer discovery and user research efforts
• Formal education in user experience design (boot camps count!)
• Are well-versed in Figma best practices

What We Offer

Great Culture - We are a diverse, vibrant, and fun team that sticks to our values:

• In Service: We are here to make life better for local businesses, managers, and hourly workers. Everything we do is to serve them.
• No Day Wasted: Our mission is big, so we act urgently in everything we do. We find creative ways to test ideas and learn today so that we focus on the right things tomorrow.
• Purple Standard: We don’t choose between doing it quickly and doing it right. We believe in craftsmanship and signing our names to work that we are proud of.

Great Team - Our founders, John and Rushi started Homebase in San Francisco in 2014 with our time clocks and scheduling software. Since then, we’ve grown our diverse workforce to over 250 employees Worldwide and scaled our products to serve over 100k businesses and 1+ Million of their employees. Homebase was named Best