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Principal Product Designer

TomoOnsite

Who we are


Tomo is a digital mortgage company on a mission to eliminate the greed and complexity in lending, helping homebuyers save thousands of dollars. Our AI-driven customer experience makes the lending process faster, less frustrating, and more affordable. By passing these savings directly to homebuyers, we eliminate excessive fees and inflated rates that cost Americans billions each year. Backed by top-tier venture investors, including Ribbit, DST, and NFX, Tomo is poised to become one of the most valuable fintech startups of our generation.

The mission of Tomo Design team


Tomo considers design to be essential to our customer experience and to our brand. We are looking for an exceptional designer to raise the bar on our design efforts.  The principal product designer’s mission is to help Tomo create an easy, empowering, and best-in-class home shopping experience for its customers by working with a team of designers in collaboration with partners in product, engineering, sales, and operations. This team strives to intimately understand the needs of customers, envisioning an experience meeting and exceeding those needs, and delivering them incrementally so Tomo’s offering gets better every day.

What the principal product designer would do


The principal product designer’s core ongoing responsibilities: 

  • Lead work in undefined problem spaces using the following methods: user research, user experience, and visual & interaction design
  • Design flows and experiences that simplify and distill down complex actions into usable interfaces
  • Define and own the visual and UI standards across multiple products on desktop and mobile web 
  • Collaborate with other product designers in crafting our customer experience
  • Present to stakeholders a vision for the product through a visual narrative
  • Give and solicit feedback from designers and our cross-functional partners in order to continually improve the end customer experience 
  • Identify opportunities and define strategies for user research that impacts our understanding of the customer and our product roadmap

Who the principal product designer is


If the following attributes sound familiar, we’d be very excited to talk!

  • 8+ years of design experience at tech companies, with start-up, consumer, and fintech experience especially prized
  • 2+ experience planning and executing user research efforts using a variety of techniques
  • Passion for modernizing the homebuying experience and bringing it into the digital age
  • Experience building consumer experiences
  • A need for speed and a preference for shipping incrementally to pull learnings forward
  • Deep knowledge of systems, patterns, interactions, and prototyping
  • Exceptional visual execution (eg. color, typography, iconography, and layout)
  • Highly collaborative, strong communication skills, able to pivot quickly, high on candor but also tact, and receptive to feedback 
  • Portfolio of work samples showcasing your problem-solving skills
  • Experience coaching and mentoring designers, with a focus on feedback/bar raising (valued but not required)   
  • Degree in design (valued but not required)

Location


This role would be located in Seattle, working from our office on Capitol Hill Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and wherever they choose on Thursday and Friday.The expected annual compensation for this position will be between $170,000 - $180,000USD

Life at Tomo

Tomo is a fintech startup that improves the homebuying experience. Tomo will provide what we want and deserve: the efficiency of a tech-enabled real estate transaction and the intimacy of having a team of elite professionals on our side. Tomo was created by Greg Schwartz and Carey Armstrong and in October 2020 announced a $40 million seed round. Tomo's team is dedicated to the philosophy of Omotenashi -- anticipating the customer's needs and meeting them before the customer is even aware they exist.
Thrive Here & What We Value1. Advantage the homebuyer2. Compensation Transparency3. Hybrid + remote workforce model4. Best in class teammate experience5. Diversity and inclusion commitment6. Proactive business process support7. WorldClass Customer Experience8. Continuous Improvement9. Embracing Process and Policy Changes10. Lower cost for homebuyers
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