Company Overview
Home From College (H\FC) is a marketplace that connects college students with brands offering paid gigs, internships, and early-career opportunities. For students, were often the first real bridge between college and the working world. For brands, were how they reach a generation thats hard to reach anywhere else.
Were in full growth mode, focused on getting the H\FC App into the hands of every college student in the country and turning first-time users into repeat GIG completers. Were at the stage where every shipped feature reaches real users quickly. The product and design decisions made now will define our trajectory, and were building out the product team with A players.
The Role
Were hiring a Lead Product Designer to own the end-to-end user experience across H\FC.
Youll work across the full product lifecycle: understanding user needs, designing new features and workflows, partnering closely with engineering through implementation, and measuring adoption, usability, and user feedback after launch. Youll use those insights to continuously refine and improve the product over time.
Youll also work with Product Marketing to ensure new features and functionality are clearly communicated and effectively showcased to users.
Design at H\FC isnt just about execution. Youll play an active role in shaping product decisions and helping ensure we build experiences that are intuitive, useful, and impactful.
What Youll Do
Own H\FCs product UX end-to-end across desktop and mobile app.
Design features start to finish: flows, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity mocks
Build and maintain H\FCs design system, UX patterns, and visual language
Partner with the team to shape and design features from problem framing through shipped experience
Work directly with engineering throughout the build - catch edge cases, make calls the spec didnt cover, ship with quality
Partner with marketing on launches, landing pages, and how features show up to users
Run research with students and brands to test assumptions and refine flows
Contribute to design beyond the core product when needed - marketing assets, landing pages, brand polish
Be a strong voice for the user and raise the bar for design quality across everything H\FC ships
What Were Looking For
7+ years of product design experience, ideally including time at an early-stage startup
Background designing consumer apps, consumer software, or marketplace products
Strong design tool fluency - you can move from sketch to high-fidelity quickly
Comfort with design tools for product spec designing
Comfort using AI tools in your design process, or experience designing AI-native features
Experience building or contributing to a design system
End-to-end product thinking - your portfolio shows problem framing, tradeoffs, and shipped outcomes, not just polished screens
Sharp product judgment - you advocate for UX without becoming a blocker, and you know when to push and when to ship
Self-directed - comfortable owning ambiguity without management overhead
Clear communicator with engineers, leadership, and non-designers alike
Bonus Points
Two-sided marketplace experience
Familiarity with college students, Gen Z, or early-career audiences
"First designer" or "founding designer" experience at a previous startup
What We Offer