Our mission

Boom is on a mission to level the playing field for the 110+ million renters in the US by making housing more flexible, affordable, and rewarding. Boom is building a suite of rental financial services for renters and property managers, including tenant screening, rent payment reporting, rent reporting-as-a-service, and a number of integrations with the largest property management systems (PMS). Boom serves renters through the Boom App and property managers via the Boom Platform. Now serving thousands of renters, Boom is led by second-time founders Rob Whiting (ex-BCG, Rubicon) and Kirill Moizik (Eco, Technion, Grubhub). It's backed by investors such as Starting Line, Clocktower Ventures, Mischief VC (CEO of Plaid Zach Perret's fund), Gilgamesh Ventures (Petal co-founders), and angels such as William Hockey CEO of Column, founder/former CTO of Plaid) and Harry Stebbings. Boom has been profiled by Inman, Business Insider, HousingWire, and more.

Opportunity

As a UX Designer at Boom, you will directly shape the user experience of our core products used by thousands of renters and real estate operators. You’ll create design that will be put into production instantly, and not just tweaks of buttons but rather full fledged products on both the consumer (renter) and business (property manager) side.

You will report into the Product organization and partner day-to-day with product managers, engineers, QA, and company leadership (CEO, CTO, CPO). This role requires someone who can move fluidly between high-level UX thinking (flows, information architecture, interaction models) and detailed execution (wireframes, prototypes, specs).

This role is a great fit for someone who moves fast but thoughtfully, and is obsessive about the details with an almost unreasonably high bar for quality. This is not a great fit for someone who has worked mainly tweaking minor design elements at a Fortune 100 company or who is focused primarily on branding, marketing sites, or conceptual-only design. Over time and with performance, there is opportunity for management. Given the seniority and collaboration requirements, this role is based in Austin, TX, working closely with our product and leadership teams.

What you'll do

• Design end-to-end user experiences across Boom’s products, from early concept through production
• Partner closely with product managers and front-end engineers to translate requirements into thoughtful UX flows, wireframes, and prototypes
• Own UX for key product areas, ensuring consistency, usability, and scalability as the platform grows
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure designs are implemented accurately
• Participate in product discovery and user research to inform design decisions
• Maintain and evolve design systems, patterns, and documentation
  
• Support QA and product teams in validating design quality during implementation and release
• Advocate for user-centered design while balancing business goals and technical constraints

What you'll need

• 5+ years of professional UX/product design experience, preferably on complex web-based SaaS products
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX work (flows, systems thinking, shipped features)
• Deep experience with Figma (components, auto-layout, design systems, prototyping)
• Experience collaborating closely with product managers and engineers
• Strong understanding of usability, accessibility, and interaction design best practices
• Ability to work through ambiguity and turn rough ideas into clear, actionable designs
• Excellent communication skills - able to explain design decisions clearly to teammates
• Extraordinary attention to detail with a strong bias toward execution and shipping
• Comfort working in a fast-moving, early-stage environment

Benefits of working at Boom

• Competitive salary with stock options
• US employees: Full healthcare coverage (health, dental, vision) including 50% coverage for dependents
• 15 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year + 3 sick days + all US federal holidays (11 in total) (note: we think unlimited PTO is BS and causes some employees to feel guilty when they take it)
• Company-issued laptop/MacBook
• Company-sponsored training & development
• Regular off-sites and other company-sponsored travel opportunities

How to apply

Apply on Wellfound and include a quick paragraph addressed to Rob as to why you're interested / qualified.