LendingHome supports real estate investors by offering the opportunity to build successful businesses through a simplified loan process. Our competitive product, innovative technology, and experienced team are changing the way real estate investors receive funding for their fix-and-flip and rental properties, transforming the experience from end to end.

The Team

With our built-from-scratch technology that covers every stage of the loan process, LendingHome has opened access and simplified a way for real estate investors—both novice and experienced—to get financing, generate wealth, and build businesses. Since founded in 2013, we have funded over $5 billion dollars worth of loans across 23,000+ projects becoming the nation's largest hard money lender. Combining the best technology and the most knowledgeable people, LendingHome has raised $215MM in venture capital, has grown to a team of over 300, and has been featured on the Forbes Fintech 50 list for two years running. LendingHome is uniquely positioned to become the next great financial services brand powered by the most advanced mortgage platform in the world.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced, strategically-minded product designer to help us build an easy-to use, delightful mortgage workflow, and customer oriented products in the real estate domain.

As a valuable member of the Design org, your role will be to develop and promote user experience as a core practice within our product lifecycle. You will be brought problems to solve, and will have the autonomy to ideate on solutions, in close collaboration with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and other partners.

You will understand the goals, motivations, and behaviors of our customers and relentlessly advocate on their behalf. Applying that knowledge to our shared vision of the future, you will work collaboratively with partners across the organization to build a UX vision, including visually-refined mockups and prototypes, to conceptualize and implement new product initiatives.

The perfect candidate will be a passionate simplifier, steeped in observation and listening skills, with a mix of interaction and visual design skills born from understanding of user behavior, best practices, research experience, and empathy.

Responsibilities:

• Use all of the tools in your UX toolkit to effectively conceptualize new product initiatives. These could include (but are not limited to) personas, journey maps, wireframes, design patterns, mockups, and prototypes.
• Create designs that bring together simple workflows, data, customer feedback, user research, and technical considerations.
• Simplify and distill complex processes into intuitive experiences.
• Partner in all phases of the product development lifecycle, including product ideation and definition, user research, identifying deliverables, estimating effort, design, usability testing, post-launch evaluation, and stakeholder communication.
• Communicate interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels in the organization.
• Actively participate in frequent design reviews; give and receive effective, thoughtful critique; and know when and how to incorporate feedback into your own designs.
• Conduct qualitative user research to understand customer behavior.
• Stay on top of digital trends, industry benchmarks and innovation in design practices.
• Partner with our Director of Design to mentor and guide existing design team's career growth.
• Contribute to initiatives to improve design frameworks, tools and processes.
• Contribute to setting goals and priorities for the department.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of on-the-job experience, showing progressive growth in project scope.
• Degree in Interaction Design, HCI, or related field of study, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with a broad range of design methodologies, and how to integrate this into the software development lifecycle.
• Proficiency in tools common to modern UX Design work, such as Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Invision/Balsamiq/Axure, Zeplin, etc.
• Portfolio demonstrating a track record of crafting and delivering digital products that align customer needs and business goals. Ideally, your portfolio will showcase your contributions to complex, workflow-driven web applications.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and effectively deliver in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Excellent and communication and written skills. Respectful when challenging assumptions, and experience giving and receiving feedback with grace.
• You are reliable. You estimate work, commit and deliver on deadlines, and are vocal when risk arises.

LendingHome in the News

• Forbes: The Future Of Real Estate: Fintech 50 2019
• Mortgage Professional America: LendingHome surpasses $5 billion in loans in five years
• San Francisco Business Times: S.F. fintech aggressively expands into lending for rental houses
• Curbed: How Wall Street, Silicon Valley Institutionalized Home Flipping
• Officelovin’: A Tour of LendingHome's New San Francisco Headquarters

 Benefits and Perks 

• Career Growth: We foster an environment that encourages opportunities to use your voice, make an impact, and move towards your long-term goals.
• Lunch & Snacks: Hungry? We have you covered! Enjoy catered lunches and Bagel Wednesdays—and don't forget to take your pick of healthy snacks and drinks daily from our fully stocked kitchen.
• Work-life Balance: With our flexible time off policy, you can enjoy a well-rounded lifestyle while easily balancing work, travel, loved ones, and passions.
• Family Matters: We know your role here might not be the only one you have. Enjoy your job as a parent and welcoming your new bundle of joy with our competitive parental leave policy.
• Commuter Benefits: Travel from A to B without the stress. We help you save money on your commute to work with pre-tax deductions and a monthly stipend.
• Product Ownership: We recognize your hand in making our business great. With offered equity, you can claim your stake in our growth.
• Health Insurance: Your well-being is important to us. Our comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans ensure that your mind and body are in good keeping.

If you'd like to see more about what LendingHome has to offer or explore additional opportunities, visit us at LendingHome.com/Careers. LendingHome is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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