Senior UX Designer at Buildout

ABOUT BUILDOUT Buildout is the AI deal engine for CRE brokerages, automating every step from first contact to commission. While brokers focus on relationships and winning listings, Buildout handles the workflows behind the scenes, turning manual processes into intelligent, scalable systems. Trusted by over 50,000 brokers, Buildout powers more profitable deals from lead to close. Learn more at www.buildout.com [Upgrade to PRO to see link] THE OPPORTUNITY We’re looking for a Senior UX Designer who has a proven track record of shipping thoughtful workflows and experiences curated through rapid user research (qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic) and is able to build trust amongst the team, lead with a vision, drive quality, foster a collaborative environment, and iterate quickly on taking ideas to reality. If you love what you do and want to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment that will challenge you to do your best, then we’d love to meet you! Your contributions will have a direct impact on the growth of the department and the company and you can bring your passion for great products to the table everyday. HOW YOU’LL CONTRIBUTE - Design thoughtful user experiences that make the complexities of broker and brokerage operations easy to navigate and understand - Help bring new products to market and shape the commercial real estate industry - Leverage AI-native design and prototyping tools (e.g., Cursor, Figma Make, Claude, Lovable) to go from concept to working prototype in hours rather than weeks — using your design expertise to direct AI and multiply your output, not replace your craft. - Design and ship agentic AI experiences across our products, defining the patterns brokers will use to work alongside intelligent systems - Work closely with Product Managers, Developers, Stakeholders, and Customers to craft the ultimate experience — defining product vision and strategy together, and conducting self-managed UX research to discover or validate the impact of what you're building - Be the voice-of-the-customer within your product focus, and clearly communicate your design decisions to stakeholder to help build user empathy throughout the organization - Craft useful and usable experiences through diagrams, sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs that allow stakeholders to see the user journey through new product features & solutions, then handoff to our software developers and validate that the implementation matches your vision - Help us build and maintain relevant personas for your product(s) and leverage research to review them periodically - Build confidence for your design vision based on an understanding of the personas and intended outcomes - Participate in weekly UX meetings to share ideas and exchange feedback - Mentor a small team of UX and Product Designers — including how they can integrate AI into their own design practice - Take the work, but not yourself, seriously WHAT MAKES A GREAT CANDIDATE - 5+ years of professional experience in UX/UI as a user experience designer or product designer with a strong portfolio of design projects including detailed descriptions of your design process - A demonstrated track record of using AI-native tools (Claude, Cursor, v0, Figma Make, Lovable, or similar) to prototype, explore, and validate ideas at 5x the speed of traditional workflows — and examples in your portfolio where this changed the outcome - Have experience designing and shipping agentic AI experiences that solve real customer problems — bringing a point of view on how brokers should interact with intelligent systems, where to surface automation, and how to build trust in AI-driven workflows - Experience with a SaaS product portfolio and new product introduction - Strong knowledge of web technologies, platforms, and frameworks (and their constraints) and are passionate about creating complex systems and keeping them well maintained - Comfortable leading and assisting in user research activities, design sprints, and workshops - Fluent in Figma and comfortable moving fluidly between sketching ideas on paper, whiteboarding with your team, and crafting them into working prototypes with tools like Claude, Cursor, and Figma Make — you care more about the quality of the thinking than the tool that produced it, and you know UX/UI standards, protocols, and methodologies well enough to take incomplete requirements and produce consistent, usable experiences across responsive web and mobile - Genuinely enjoys talking to customers — you pick up the phone, join the sales call, sit in on the support ticket review, and treat every conversation as a chance to sharpen your design instincts. Deeply collaborative by default: you'd rather co-create with PMs, engineers, and customers than disappear and return with a finished mockup - Comfortable embracing uncertainty and challenging the team with new ideas - Experience working in a startup is a plus, but not required - Commercial Real Estate experience is a plus, but not required When applying, please share a link to a portfolio that showcases your recent work! We know there are great candidates who won’t check all of these boxes, and we also know you might bring important skills that we haven’t considered. If that’s you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself. Location: This is a fully remote role open across most of the US. Travel: Interviewing, onboarding, and day-to-day work is done remotely, but we do bring the company together annually for an all-company kickoff where travel is expected. Compensation: The targeted salary range for this position is $110,000 - $150,000 Reporting To: George Mountis, our SVP, Product PERKS & BENEFITS  This program includes: - Impactful insurance and benefit options, including 2 medical plans to choose from, 100% coverage of employee dental and vision insurance premiums, HSA seed, company-paid STD, LTD, life insurance, and telemedicine, and a wellness benefit of $400/year. - Policies that support a healthy work/life harmony, including Flexible PTO, 14 paid company holidays, paid parental leave, and give back days - 401(k) with 4% company match and immediate vesting - A fully remote work culture with a monthly remote work reimbursement ($600/year) to support our distributed team and an annual, in-person company kickoff - Challenging problems to solve with a committed and supportive team who are invested in your growth and development - A wonderfully quirky culture where you’re encouraged to bring your whole self to work Buildout is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.  If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at [Upgrade to PRO to see contact] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information and we will consider your request.  Below, you will be asked to complete identity information for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). It is required by law that we ask these questions using the format provided by the EEOC. 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