Home From College (H\FC) is a marketplace that connects college students with brands offering paid gigs, internships, and early-career opportunities. For students, we're often the first real bridge between college and the working world. For brands, we're how they reach a generation that's hard to reach anywhere else.
We're at the stage where every shipped feature reaches real users the same week. The product is alive, the feedback loop is short, and the design decisions made now will shape what H\FC feels like for years.
We're hiring a Product Designer to own the user experience across H\FC end-to-end. You'll be the person making sure every flow we ship, whether it's a student applying to a gig or a brand reviewing applicants, is intuitive, cohesive, and worth using.
You'll define the experience from the user's side, design the solution, partner with engineering and marketing to ship it, and hold the bar for UX quality across the product. Design at H\FC isn't just downstream of product decisions it actually helps shapes them.
Own H\FC's 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\FC's 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 didn't 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
4+ 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
Two-sided marketplace experience
Familiarity with college students, Gen Z, or early-career audiences
"First designer" or "founding designer" experience at a previous startup