Hiring: Director of Product Design, Avail Company: Realtor.com Location: Austin, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 10:41:46 Target Skills & Keywords : Accessibility, Confluence, Design System, Figma, Financial Planning, Jira, LLM, Project Management, User Experience, a11y About the job Experience: •10+ years of experience working in the design industry •3+ years of working in a product-led organization •5+ years of providing design direction and mentoring to colleagues in a leadership role •5+ years leading a design systems and product design team Required Skills: •Own the Avail design system. Define and evolve the components, patterns, and tokens powering Avail's Renter, Landlord, and Public surfaces, and drive their adoption across the design team. •Raise the bar on product and feature design. Set the quality standard for end-to-end product design across Avail. You’ll be reviewing and guiding feature work so the experience stays cohesive as the product grows. •Make accessibility the default. Build accessible patterns and tokens into the system itself, and grow the team's fluency so a11y is designed in from the start rather than retrofitted. •Keep design and code in lockstep. Partner with your engineering counterpart to align components across design and code, and advance a connected toolchain between Figma and the codebase. •Document so the system scales. Maintain clear, accessible documentation and contribution processes for every component, so designers and engineers can move without you in the room. •Make the case for the system. Translate the value of design systems and accessibility into language Product, Engineering, and executive partners care about, grounded in business and quality metrics. •Plan a roadmap that ships. Sequence systems and accessibility work into a prioritized roadmap that maps to engineering's release pipeline and Avail's product timelines. •Extend the system to the brand. Partner with Brand and Marketing on consistency across external-facing assets, and maintain the icon and illustration libraries. Compensation: •Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3 Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!