Product Designer

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, 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.

The Role

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.

What You'll Do

• 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

What We're Looking For

• 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

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 

• Competitive annual base compensation
• Equity Option Award Compensation 
• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) Plan
• Unlimited PTO
• Laptop and WFH setup reimbursement
• Hybrid office environment in Santa Monica