Product Designer (Hybrid)

Hi, Future Homie!

At Homebase, you’ll join a team that’s bold, fast-moving, and obsessed with helping small businesses thrive. We build with empathy, act with urgency, and take big swings that drive real-world impact. Here, every Homie shows up to raise the bar, support one another, and celebrate wins as a team.

We’re not just building an app—we’re building unstoppable teams. So what do you say, are you in?

 📍Your Impact Starts Here

We're looking for a Product Designer with a strong eye for craft and a builder's mindset. You care about visual polish and interaction details — and you bring ideas, energy, and curiosity to the work, not just execution.

You'll design experiences for our Hiring product that help owners trust AI-powered candidate matching, simplify job creation, and make the review process feel fast and confident — not like a guessing game. You'll partner closely with Product and Engineering to ship, iterate, and improve — supported by a Senior Design Manager and Senior Designers who are invested in helping you level up. You'll get real ownership early if you're ready for it.

This is a hands-on role for someone who'd rather share rough work and get feedback than perfect it alone. You show up with multiple directions. You notice friction before someone points it out. You're proactive, scrappy, and hungry to grow.

You're also already working with AI tools — not just open to them. Whether you've used Claude, Figma Make, v0, or something newer to explore ideas, speed up iteration, or build something of your own, you're comfortable making AI a part of how you design and think.

These are the key ways you’ll contribute and create impact in this role:

• In your first quarter, you might redesign how owners review candidates, improve screener completion rates, or prototype new Hiring product experiences.

• Explore multiple directions before converging, and bring that thinking to reviews clearly

• Push your work to a high bar — sweating the details that make experiences feel polished, not just done

• Partner with Product and Engineering to shape solutions and ship work that matches intent

• Talk directly with customers, run quick tests, and use what you learn to adjust direction. Treat research as a velocity tool, not a gate.

• Use AI tools to expand exploration, accelerate execution, and raise your own quality bar

• Share work early and often — rough drafts, prototypes, not just finished screens

🚀 The Foundation for Success - These are the experiences and strengths that will set you up for success in this role:

• 2–3 years of product design experience with a portfolio showing strong visual and interaction craft

• A clear eye for quality — typography, hierarchy, spacing, interaction polish — and work that shows it

• Experience taking ambiguous problems through to shipped solutions

• Proactive and independent — you drive your work forward without waiting to be pointed at it

• Active use of AI tools in your design workflow — not "interested in," actually doing it

• Can form and communicate clear design opinions, including on tradeoffs

Bonus points if you have:

• Built something — a side project, experiment, or tool — that shows curiosity and initiative

• Strong prototyping skills to bring interactions to life beyond static screens

• Experience in 0→1 or early-stage product areas

• Ability to think in systems — patterns, reuse, scalability — not just individual screens

• Experience designing AI-powered or automation-driven experiences

🤝  The Homie Way - These principles guide everything we do—from how we work and make decisions to how we show up for each other.

• 💡 Be Customer Obsessed – Solve problems with empathy and creativity.

• ⚡ Move Fast, Learn Fast – Experiment, take action, and grow every day.

• 🎯 Own Your Impact – Think big, focus on what matters, and make decisions you stand behind.

• 🏆 Master Your Craft – Excellence fuels impact—show up, step up, and make your mark.

• 🏅 Win Together – Put goals over roles, lead with trust, and connect to our mission and each other.

What We Offer

• 💰 Ownership & Financial Security: Stock options + 401(k) with 4% match

• 🏥 Comprehensive Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision coverage + FSA options

• ⏰ Paid Time Off: Flexible PTO + company holidays + designated focus periods

• 🤖 AI access, for real: We invest in builders and believe that curiosity shouldn't have a paywall. That means you'll have access to paid AI tools with minimal restrictions, so you can build, experiment, and level up your craft.

• 👶 Family Support: Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave (after 6 months of service)

• 🛡️ Protection Plans: Life insurance + short/long-term disability coverage

• 🌟 Work Your Way: Work From Anywhere Month + meeting-free weeks yearly

• 🍽️ Workspace Perks: Meals provided, commuter benefits, team offsites, and Customer Days

• 💼 Our Hybrid Rhythm: We believe collaboration drives impact. That’s why Tuesday and Wednesday are our required in-office days—a time to move faster as a team, build deeper connections, make better decisions, and build together.

What to Expect During the Interview Process

• Meet the Talent Acquisition team, Mavel W.

• Meet the Hiring Manager, Cindy L.

• Participate in a Panel interview with Cross-functional Partners

• Meet the Head of Product Design, Jan S.

• Background Check + Offer Stage

• Welcome to the team, Homie 🎉

💜 Belonging at Homebase - We're committed to fostering a welcoming space where every Homie can be their full self. Experience comes in many forms—so if you're excited about this role, even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply! 

Homebase will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

👋 Hey, We’re Homebase

Homebase is the everything app for hourly teams—built to simplify the day-to-day and superpower local businesses. With tools for scheduling, time clocks, payroll, communication, HR, and more, we help teams stay connected and in control. Today, over 150,000 small (but mighty) businesses rely on us to make work radically easier. Together, we’ve tracked over a billion hours for 2M+ workers—and we’re just getting started.

At Homebase, we celebrate diversity and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all candidates and do not discriminate based on any legally protected status. If you need accommodations during the hiring process, please let us know—we’re committed to ensuring fair and equitable access for all.