The Design Manager will lead end-to-end product design while managing a small team, ensuring high-quality design outcomes and team development through coaching and feedback.
Luxury Presence is the leading digital platform revolutionizing the real estate industry for agents, teams, and brokerages. Our award-winning websites, cutting-edge marketing solutions, and AI-powered mobile platform empower real estate professionals to grow their business, operate more efficiently, and deliver exceptional service to their clients. Trusted by over 80,000 real estate professionals, including 31 of the nation’s 100 top-performing agents as published in the Wall Street Journal, Luxury Presence continues to set the standard for innovation and excellence in real estate technology.
The Design Opportunity
Design at Luxury Presence is core to our mission: to empower real estate entrepreneurs with elegant, user-centered tools. We believe great design starts with understanding — of the customer, the problem, and the context. Our best work is driven by curiosity about how people think, what they need, and where their current tools fall short.
We value usability not as a feature, but as a baseline expectation. At the same time, we hold a high bar for visual quality, celebrating simplicity, consistency, and purposeful design.
The Design Manager role is a new position for our team — a player-coach who balances hands-on product design with people leadership. This is ideal for a senior-level designer who wants to continue shaping product experiences while also guiding and developing a small team of designers.
About the Role
As a Design Manager, you’ll blend hands-on design with people leadership. You’ll own product experiences end-to-end in a defined area while also guiding a small group of designers to do their best work. Some weeks you’ll be deep in Figma, shaping flows and collaborating with PMs and engineers; other weeks, your focus will lean toward coaching, feedback, and team development.
In this role, you’ll ensure both impactful design outcomes and a thriving design team. You’ll provide clarity, feedback, and growth opportunities for your reports, while continuing to set a high bar for usability, craft, and product thinking through your own design contributions.
What You’ll Be Doing
Design Leadership (player role):
- Lead end-to-end design work: framing problems, exploring solutions, and delivering polished, dev-ready experiences.
- Stay deeply connected to users through research, testing, and discovery.
- Translate insights into clear, usable, and delightful designs that account for multiple states, edge cases, and accessibility.
- Collaborate closely with PM and Engineering partners to define problems and identify the right solutions.
- Contribute to our design system and help evolve shared patterns and standards.
People Leadership (coach role):
- Manage and support a small group of product designers, providing regular feedback, coaching, and career development.
- Run effective 1:1s, set growth goals, and help designers stretch their craft and impact.
- Create an environment of trust, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Facilitate critique sessions and ensure high-quality design outcomes across the team.
- Partner with Design leadership to shape hiring, onboarding, and team culture.
What We’re Looking For
- 8+ years of experience in product design, with at least 1–2 years of mentoring or team leadership.
- A portfolio that demonstrates strong UX thinking, high-quality craft, and real user impact.
- Experience designing and shipping digital products in cross-functional teams.
- Clear, confident communication of design decisions, user needs, and tradeoffs.
- Comfort balancing hands-on design work with people leadership responsibilities.
- Curiosity, empathy, and a drive to improve user outcomes through design.
- Proficiency in Figma and fluency with modern design system practices.
Join us in shaping the future of real estate
The real estate industry is in the midst of a seismic shift, and the future belongs to those who break new ground. As one of the fastest-growing companies in the proptech and marketing sectors, Luxury Presence challenges the status quo of what technology can do for real estate agents, leaders, and brokerages.
We’re a team of agile and tenacious innovators working collaboratively to drive the industry forward. Together, we build game-changing products that empower modern real estate entrepreneurs to dominate their markets. From award-winning web design to agile SEO solutions to cutting-edge AI tools, we deliver tech that anticipates market shifts and keeps our clients ahead of their competition.
Founded in 2016 by Stanford Business School alum Malte Kramer, Luxury Presence has grown to a global team ranked on the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies list three years in a row. We’re backed by world-class investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Toba Capital, and Switch Ventures, and have raised $52.6 million to date.
More than 15,000 real estate businesses rely on our platform, including 31 of the RealTrends top 100 agents featured in The Wall Street Journal. Additionally, many of the industry’s most powerful brokerages — including Compass, Coldwell Banker, and Sotheby’s International Realty — rely on Luxury Presence as a trusted business partner.
Every year since 2020, Luxury Presence has ranked on BuiltIn’s Best Place to Work lists. HousingWire named our founder and CEO a 2024 Tech Trendsetter, we’ve received several Tech100 Awards, and our lead nurturing tool just scored an Inman Innovation Award for Best AI-Powered Platform.
Luxury Presence is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
Top Skills
Design Systems
Figma
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