Principal UX Designer

About the Role

As a Principal UX Designer, you’ll play a pivotal role in defining the end-to-end experience across Opendoor’s products and services. You’ll be a craft leader and thought partner to product, engineering, research, and business stakeholders—pushing the boundaries of design to deliver experiences that are both delightful and impactful. This role requires vision, systems-level thinking, and the ability to inspire teams to execute at a high bar of design excellence.

What You'll Do

• Elevate the quality of design thinking, craft, and execution across the team by owning and driving operating mechanisms like design reviews and customer experience reviews
• Mentor and coach more junior designers and help them develop and grow as they progress in their career
• Provide input and support to the VP of Design on recruiting and hiring, talent development, and team culture

• Lead design vision and strategy for complex, high-impact initiatives across Opendoor’s customer and partner experiences.

• Drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces and simplify complexity into elegant solutions.

• Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and data scientists to align business goals with user needs.

• Set a high standard for craft, usability, and accessibility across the design team.

• Mentor and coach designers, providing feedback and guidance that raises the bar across the org.

• Influence product strategy with user-centered insights, advocating for design thinking at the leadership level.

• Contribute to the evolution of Opendoor’s design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across products.

• Represent design in executive-level forums, driving alignment around customer experience outcomes.

What You’ll Need

• 10+ years of experience in UX/product design, with a strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design leadership.

• Experience shaping strategy and executing across multiple platforms (web, mobile, responsive).

• Proven ability to tackle ambiguous problems and deliver impactful, customer-facing experiences at scale.

• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills—you inspire teams and leaders alike.

• A systems thinker who can zoom between strategy, architecture, and interaction-level details.

• Experience working in fast-paced, cross-functional teams, ideally within consumer technology or marketplaces.

• A passion for Opendoor’s mission and a drive to make complex processes simple and delightful.

Compensation

The base pay range for this position is $238,400-$298,000 annually, plus RSUs and bonuses. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on your qualifications, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. We also offer a comprehensive package of benefits including unlimited PTO, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees.

About us…. Powering life’s progress, one move at a time

Since 2014, we’ve been reinventing life’s most important transaction with a new, simple way to buy and sell a home. The traditional real estate process is broken, and our mission is clear: build a digital, end-to-end experience that makes buying and selling a home simple and certain. 

We’re a team of problem solvers, innovators, and operators building the largest, most trusted platform for residential real estate. Whether it’s starting a family, taking a new job, or making a life change, we help people move forward with confidence. 

This work isn’t easy, and it’s not for everyone. But if you want to be part of a team that’s tilting the world in favor of people who want to sell, buy, or own a home then you’ll find purpose here. 

Opendoor Values Openness

We believe that being open about who we are and what we do allows us to be better. Individuals seeking employment at Opendoor are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or other protected status under all applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. We collect, use, and disclose applicant personal information as described in our personnel privacy policies. To learn more, you can find the policy details for California residents here and for Canada residents here.

We are committed to assisting members of the military community in utilizing their skills at Opendoor. U.S. candidates are able to review your military job classification at MyNextMove.org and apply for positions that align with your expertise.

At Opendoor, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, religious beliefs, or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you require assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at TAops-accomodations@opendoor.com.