Sr. User Experience Designer
Description
AppFolio is more than a company. We're a community of dreamers, big thinkers, problem solvers, active listeners, and multipliers. At every opportunity, we set the pace while delivering innovation built to carry real estate into the future. One in which every experience feels effortless, yet meaningful. Where customers are empowered to take on any opportunity. We show up as one team, connected by our values to be a force for good. Because together, we have the power to create extraordinary outcomes for our customers, our communities, and ourselves.
The Senior User Experience Designer will join AppFolio's Maintenance team to design how property managers, residents, vendors, and owners experience maintenance. You will own design for a set of Maintenance Performer initiatives that are early, strategic, and still have open questions. This is a high impact design role for a designer who can act as a strategic partner to both product management and engineering while turning ambiguity into a path forward.
Your Impact
End-to-end ownership: Own design for new Maintenance Performer capabilities from early problem framing through shipped experiences, including voice AI
Strategic partnership: Frame problems with product management and engineering, propose options, prototype to learn, and help the team choose a direction
Designing with AI agents: Define what the agent handles and where people stay in control, and make what it did visible, trustworthy, and correctable
Vendor network: Design how a partner vendor network fits into maintenance coordination
Voice AI: Help shape voice AI for the Maintenance Performer, including how conversations are designed and how call outcomes show up for the property manager
Adoption and fit: Make new Performer capabilities self-serve, and build them on the workflows and system of record customers already use
Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with product management, engineering, and external partners to drive design decisions, facilitate critique, and surface cross-team dependencies early
Research and discovery: Facilitate user research to validate design decisions, and lead discovery work when direction is still open
Design system and mentorship: Contribute to and evolve AppFolio's design system, and mentor other designers
Qualifications
Have led design on ambiguous, early stage initiatives and carried them through to shipped work
Have breadth and flexibility: you can move between projects with different skill needs, often more than one at a time
Design for several user types within one system and make deliberate tradeoffs between their needs
Have designed systems where an AI agent or automation acts on a user's behalf, with human-in-the-loop controls
Are an effective communicator and collaborator with experience driving design decisions across engineering, product management, and external partners
Have experience measuring the impact of design work and using product analytics to inform ongoing improvements
Have a strong UX writing sensibility, the language in notifications, follow ups, and agent messages
Bring a systems thinking mindset, seeing how a change in one workflow affects the others
Use AI assisted tools in your day-to-day design work
Must Have
Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in user experience or product design, with meaningful time on complex workflows or operations products
Portfolio: A portfolio demonstrating design process, judgment, and impact on work that started with open questions, including how you narrowed the problem and what shipped
Multi-user workflows: Experience designing for more than one user type within a single product or service
Strategic partnership: Experience partnering directly with product management and engineering to shape roadmap and strategy, not only to execute on it
Nice to Have
Experience designing AI driven, conversational, or voice experiences
Experience with PropTech, real estate operations, or enterprise products
Location
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Compensation & Benefits
The compensation that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $125,600 - $157,000 (base salary). The actual compensation for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate's skills, education, experience, and internal equity.
Please note that compensation is just one aspect of a comprehensive Total Rewards package. The compensation range listed here does not include additional benefits or any discretionary bonuses you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.
Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits.
About AppFolio
AppFolio is the technology leader powering the future of the real estate industry. Our innovative platform and trusted partnership enable our customers to connect communities, increase operational efficiency, and grow their business. For more information about AppFolio, visit appfolio.com.
Why AppFolio
Grow | We enable a culture of high performance, where delivering results is recognized by opportunities for growth and compelling total rewards. Our challenging and meaningful work drive the growth of our business, and ourselves.
Learn | We partner with you to realize your potential by investing in you from the start. We're cultivating a team of big thinkers through coaching and mentorship with our best-in-class leaders, and giving you the time and tools to develop your skills.
Impact | We are creating a world where living in, investing in, managing, and supporting communities feels magical and effortless, freeing people to thrive. We do this by innovating with purpose while cultivating a culture of impact. We learn as much from each other as we do our customers and our communities.
Connect | We excel at hybrid work by fostering an environment that feels flexible, personal and connected, no matter where we are. We create space to fuel innovation and collaboration, and we come together to celebrate, connect, and succeed.
Paddle as One.
Learn more at appfolio.com/company/careers
Statement of Equal Opportunity
At AppFolio, we value diversity in backgrounds and perspectives and depend on it to drive our innovative culture. That’s why we’re a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, and we believe that our products, our teams, and our business are stronger because of it. This means that no matter what race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, age, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, or veteran status, you’re always welcome at AppFolio.