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Lead Designer

Foundation · San Francisco · On-site

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About Foundation

The Foundation buyer experience platform helps homebuilders sell more homes, more efficiently, to happier customers. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.

About the role

You’ll play a central role in driving Foundation’s next stages of growth — working at the intersection of design, AI, and real estate transformation.

What they're looking for

  • You have 7-10+ years of experience as a designer at high-growth, venture-backed technology companies
  • You are a full-stack designer — from research through exploration, product launches, and continuous improvement. Bonus points if you obsess about everything from product strategy and feature-level pixels to the fine details of marketing campaigns
  • You’re highly collaborative, and do your best work by engaging deeply with cross-functional groups of customers, engineers, PMs, and operators
  • You love getting to know new customers and new markets
More about this role

Foundation is hiring a lead designer to accelerate our core business, modernize homebuilding, and transform the experience of buying, selling, and owning homes.

Backed by $6.8M in funding from leading VCs (including Y Combinator), Foundation is an ex-Opendoor team transforming residential real estate.

Foundation’s first product is the native customer experience platform for homebuilders — think “Shopify for Homebuilders.” We work with enterprise-scale homebuilders to deliver a modern digital customer experience, dramatically improving both their customer happiness and the productivity of their teams. In two years, we’ve demonstrated clear product-market fit and rapid growth — all with just contract design support.

We’re still in the first of three overlapping phases of growth and company-building:

Transformative, AI-driven vertical SaaS for homebuilding — a public-scale opportunity in its own right.

The enterprise ecosystem for real estate . Homebuilders are the economic engine that starts this flywheel, unlocking an order-of-magnitude larger opportunity. This ecosystem fosters collaboration between (and network effects with) adjacent trillion-dollar industries — lending, title,...

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