Product Designer

About the Role

We are looking for a creative and motivated Product Designer to spearhead design projects for Daft.ie, focusing on simplifying the property buying and selling experience for users nationwide. With a monthly audience exceeding one million visitors, this role offers a chance to significantly influence the home buying and selling journey for many.

You will become part of a contemporary, product-led team where design impacts strategic directions as much as execution. Collaborating closely with Product and Engineering teams, you'll identify critical user challenges, rapidly develop solutions, and deliver experiences that balance user expectations with business objectives.

Our design environment integrates AI tools to boost discovery and iterative development while emphasizing human insight, craftsmanship, and a user-centered approach to create superior outcomes. You will be entrusted with preserving design excellence, fostering innovation, and crafting outstanding user experiences that set us apart in the market.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver superior design quality that ensures seamless, intuitive product experiences and explore fresh innovative design paths.
• Perform detailed design reviews to maintain design consistency and excellence, promoting a culture valuing high-standard work.
• Identify user problems and opportunities in partnership with Product teams to build lean, innovative design solutions grounded in user needs, data, and technical feasibility.
• Advocate usability testing and research by employing qualitative insights, behavior analytics, and tools like Google Analytics, Hotjar, and Convert for informed decision-making, solution validation, and impact measurement post-launch.
• Leverage AI-driven workflows to enhance discovery, ideation, content exploration, and prototyping, contributing to AI-powered product features while evolving design practices.
• Support development of scalable design systems and patterns that assure consistency, adaptability, and personalized or AI-assisted experiences, maintaining craft quality under rapid pace.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and diverse team culture within the design and product teams, contributing constructive perspectives.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of four years' experience in product design, UX, or UI roles with a record of crafting elegant user experiences.
• A compelling portfolio demonstrating problem-solving skills and highlighting the impact of design on user metrics.
• Ability to align design initiatives strategically with business goals to produce meaningful outcomes.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, design thinking methodologies, design systems, and research techniques focused on enhancing user experience and key product metrics.
• Proficiency with design tools such as Figma, Miro, Adobe Creative Suite, and AI-powered design tools to support early-stage exploration and execution.
• Excellent communication skills to clearly present design ideas and rationale to cross-functional teams, promoting effective collaboration.
• Experience working within Agile development settings, emphasizing iterative design and rapid prototyping with regular feedback.
• Knowledge of front-end development at a high level to inform design decisions and support engineering collaboration.
• A proactive mindset toward product design ownership, embracing innovation, testing assumptions, and exploring new insights.

Employee Benefits

• A workplace culture designed for enjoyment and engagement, whether working from the central Dublin office or remotely.
• A supportive environment where your voice is heard, work is trusted, and you have opportunities for fun, learning, and professional growth.
• Confidence that this role supports your career, well-being, and future, with focus on health and personal care.
• Comprehensive benefits including life insurance, fully-paid healthcare, and a company pension contribution of 5%.

Company Values and Inclusion

Our core values include a growth mindset, simplification, decisive action, cross-team collaboration, and passion for our work. These guide our leadership, daily choices, and define our culture through shared behaviors: creating impact, fulfilling roles responsibly, and thriving together.

We embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunity regardless of gender, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race, or Traveller community membership.