Product Designer

Role Overview

As a Product Designer at RealPage, you collaborate with Product Management and a Development Lead to build value for both landlords and renters. You represent Design across the product lifecycle—from product strategy and discovery through design, development, pilot, and general availability.

Responsibilities

• Tell the product problem and solution using personas and narrative.
• Extract and define requirements from customer pain points.
• Lead user, customer, and SME interviews and synthesize findings.
• Document knowledge, existing workflows, and pain points from discovery.
• Narrow and prioritize discovery into actionable scope.
• Solve product/user problems using user-centered design thinking.
• Produce workflow documentation and functional specifications to support Engineering.
• Propose solution ranges and sequence releases to establish product timelines.
• Define, track, and monitor success metrics for proposed work.
• Drive design momentum across the lifecycle, including pilot planning and GA readiness for go-to-market.
• Partner with the PM on design alignment and assist discovery (e.g., discussion guides, SME interviews).
• Coordinate with Engineering and QA to communicate designed functionality for ticketing and quality testing.
• Use and contribute to the Design Standards system and support its evolution.
• Work with UX Researchers on continuous discovery and solution validation.
• Participate in the Product Design Center of Excellence curriculum and be mentored by senior product designers.

Requirements

• UX coursework completion (degrees, certificates, bootcamps, or online courses accepted).
• Portfolio requirements:
  • Human-centered stories and ability to define/assess user problems
  • Evidence of problem-solving
  • Communication of solutions via low-fidelity wireframes and high-fidelity clickable prototypes
  • Metrics demonstrating success for user outcomes
  • Ability to assemble a release strategy for product enhancements
• Minimum 4+ years of experience in UX, design, architecture, or a similar field.
• Strong ability to empathize with users.
• Experience with Agile design/development practices and user-centered design thinking.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Facilitation skills to align product and development teams through strategy, discovery, and design.
• Ability to synthesize discovery into actionable items.
• Comfort with iterative design and sharing work throughout the process.
• Ability to communicate clearly with executives and represent the Design POV.
• Curiosity and comfort leading experiments.

Nice to Have / Additional Signals

• Comfort communicating with executives.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills and strong documentation of problem-solving.