
Senior Product Designer II
Compass · New York, NY
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- $155,000 / year
- New York, NY
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Senior Product Designer II
Compass · New York, NY
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Job highlights
- Design AI-powered CRM for real estate agents.
- Improve contact management and lead nurturing.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data.
- Focus on user needs and technical constraints.
- Create intuitive, trustworthy AI interactions.
About the role
About Compass
Compass's mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012, Compass is revolutionizing the real estate industry with an end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients. Compass is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape the CRM experience of the Home Platform, our enterprise-scale real estate operating system. In this role, you will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data, AI, and Operations teams to design scalable workflows and systems that help real estate agents manage relationships, automate tasks, and grow their businesses more effectively. You will be instrumental in designing the next generation of our AI-powered features, ensuring they are intuitive, trustworthy, and seamlessly integrated into agent workflows. This role focuses on improving CRM experiences including contact management, lead nurturing, communications, workflow automations, and CRM reporting. It requires a systems-minded designer who can simplify complex workflows into intuitive experiences while balancing business goals, user needs, and technical constraints. The ideal candidate is highly collaborative, comfortable operating in ambiguity, and experienced in designing workflow-heavy SaaS, enterprise workflow, or CRM products across web and mobile platforms, with a demonstrated ability to design for AI-driven features.Responsibilities
- Interaction & Visualizations: Drive alignment and decision-making with visual artifacts like customer journeys, user flows, wireframes, and prototypes to illustrate the vision and shape impactful CRM and AI experiences.
- Prototyping & Research: Support usability testing and research efforts by creating prototypes (including multimodal and voice) and facilitating research sessions. Analyze feedback and iterate on designs to ensure our solutions deliver high-trust, low-friction AI interactions.
- AI-Enhanced Workflows: Design and develop AI-based conversational and multimodal experiences. Participate in discovery work to better understand agent behaviors, operational pain points, and workflow inefficiencies. Translate qualitative and quantitative insights into actionable product opportunities for AI.
- Documentation & Requirements: Deliver effective design documentation (e.g., sample dialogs, conversational flow diagrams, and multimodal flows) to communicate experience requirements for complex initiatives like Onboarding Automation and AI Self-Service Knowledge to Engineering and Product partners.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build strong relationships with Product, Engineering, and stakeholders to understand priorities and collaborate on solutions.
- Strategic Balance: Balance user needs, technical constraints (e.g., LLM capabilities), and Product objectives to solve problems effectively. Craft best-in-class multimodal user experiences that are desirable, technically feasible, and viable for the business.
- Product Strategy: Contribute to scalable product and design solutions by thinking beyond individual screens and considering how workflows, data, and user actions connect across the broader Home Platform ecosystem.
- Design Systems & Consistency: Contribute to and work within established design systems to ensure consistency, usability, and scalability across the Home Platform.
What You Bring
- 7+ years of product design experience, ideally within CRM, SaaS, workflow, or enterprise software products.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating systems thinking, end-to-end product design, and complex workflow problem-solving across web and mobile applications. Experience designing for AI-driven products or features is highly desirable.
- Ability to gather and synthesize product requirements from multiple stakeholders and translate them into intuitive user experiences.
- Strong understanding of interaction design, information architecture, usability principles, and scalable UX patterns.
- Experience collaborating closely with Product and Engineering teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Comfortable working in ambiguous environments and balancing user needs, business priorities, and technical feasibility.
- Familiarity with data-informed design decision-making, usability testing, and iterative product development.
- Proficiency with Figma and prototyping tools.
- Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Nice to Have
- Demonstrated experience designing AI-assisted CRM workflows, productivity tools, or automation features.
- Familiarity with conversational UX, notification systems, or agent-assist tooling.
- A basic understanding of ML/NLP fundamentals and experience designing for Generative AI.
- Experience designing internal workflows, support platforms, or back-office automation tools.
- Experience within real estate, transactions, operations, or marketplace platforms.
- Understanding of CRM metrics, lead funnel management, and customer engagement workflows.
Compensation
The base pay range for this position is $147,400-$163,800; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits. Base pay is based on market location. Minimum wage for the position will always be met.Perks That You Need To Know About
- Participation in incentive programs (cash, equity, or commissions).
- Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, recharge leave).
- Comprehensive benefits (medical, tele-health, dental, vision).
- 401(k) plan and flexible spending accounts (FSAs).
- Commuter program.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Maven (new parent support system).
- Carrot (fertility benefits).
- UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network).
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Pet insurance.
Key skills/competency
- Product Design
- CRM
- SaaS
- Workflow Automation
- AI Features
- User Experience (UX)
- Interaction Design
- Figma
- Prototyping
- Systems Thinking
Skills & topics
- Product Design
- UX Design
- UI Design
- CRM
- SaaS
- Workflow Automation
- AI Design
- Figma
- Prototyping
- Enterprise Software
- Real Estate Tech
How to get hired
- Customize your resume: Highlight experience in CRM, SaaS, workflow design, and AI features. Quantify achievements.
- Showcase your portfolio: Emphasize systems thinking and complex workflow problem-solving across web/mobile. Include AI design examples.
- Tailor your application: Clearly articulate how your skills and experience align with Compass's mission and the Senior Product Designer role.
- Prepare for interviews: Be ready to discuss your design process, collaboration style, and experience with ambiguity and AI.
Technical preparation
Master Figma and advanced prototyping techniques.,Develop case studies on complex workflow designs.,Practice designing AI-driven conversational interfaces.,Study CRM systems and real estate workflows.
Behavioral questions
Describe a time you designed for ambiguity.,How do you balance user needs and business goals?,Explain your approach to cross-functional collaboration.,How do you ensure AI designs are trustworthy?
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Frequently asked questions
- What is the primary focus of the Senior Product Designer role at Compass?
- The Senior Product Designer role at Compass primarily focuses on shaping and improving the CRM experience within the Home Platform, our enterprise-scale real estate operating system. This involves designing scalable workflows and systems to help real estate agents manage relationships, automate tasks, and grow their businesses, with a significant emphasis on integrating next-generation AI-powered features.
- What are the key responsibilities for a Senior Product Designer at Compass?
- Key responsibilities include driving design through visual artifacts like user flows and prototypes, supporting usability testing and research by creating prototypes (including multimodal and voice), designing AI-based conversational and multimodal experiences, delivering design documentation, collaborating with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering), balancing user needs with technical constraints, contributing to product strategy, and ensuring consistency within design systems.
- What type of experience is ideal for this Senior Product Designer position?
- The ideal candidate has 7+ years of product design experience, particularly in CRM, SaaS, workflow, or enterprise software products. A strong portfolio demonstrating systems thinking, end-to-end product design, and complex workflow problem-solving across web and mobile is essential. Experience designing for AI-driven products or features is highly desirable, as is proficiency in Figma and prototyping tools.
- How does Compass approach AI in its product design?
- Compass is actively integrating AI into its product design, aiming to create intuitive, trustworthy, and seamlessly integrated AI-powered features. This includes designing AI-enhanced workflows, conversational and multimodal experiences, and leveraging AI for tasks like automation and self-service knowledge. Designers are expected to translate insights into actionable product opportunities for AI and understand technical constraints related to AI capabilities.
- What is the compensation and benefits package for this role?
- The base pay range for this Senior Product Designer position is $147,400-$163,800, with actual pay depending on experience. The compensation package may also include bonuses and restricted stock units, along with a full range of benefits such as paid time off, medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and various other perks like fertility benefits and pet insurance.
- What does Compass value in its employees and culture?
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