Director of Product Design, VTS
$220-270k
+ Equity
4+ days a week in office
Commercial real estate technology solution
Open for applications
Commercial real estate technology solution
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$220-270k
+ Equity
4+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unify owners, operators, brokers, and tenants to capitalize on opportunities revealed in every square foot of their properties.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years in product design with at least 3 years in a leadership role
- Proven success leading design teams in SaaS or B2B/B2B2C environments
- Strong portfolio showcasing end‑to‑end product design and design systems
- Experience running usability tests, experiments, design sprints, and data‑driven design iterations
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills; ability to influence at all levels
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and driving clarity in complex problem spaces
What the job involves
- The Director of Product Design will lead our design function across all product lines — Leasing, Market, Data, Activate, and Multifamily
- This is a high‑visibility role reporting to the SVP of Product and working closely with Engineering, Product, and Executive Leadership. You’ll shape the vision for design at VTS, grow and mentor a team of designers, and establish design as a strategic differentiator in our market
- Lead, grow, and inspire a small but mighty team of product designers, setting clear goals and fostering career growth
- Drive the vision and strategy for design across the entire VTS product suite
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to deliver elegant, scalable, and user‑centered solutions
- Maintain a consistent discovery process — including generative research, usability testing, and design experiments — to validate decisions and measure impact
- Present design rationale to stakeholders and influence product and business decisions
- Foster a collaborative design culture that thrives in ambiguity and fast‑changing environments
- Explore AI and agentic design opportunities; collaborate with data and engineering teams to integrate intelligence into workflows
- Establish a design vision and strategy aligned with company objectives
- Deliver measurable improvements to usability, time‑to‑value, and customer satisfaction across products
- Launch updates to the design system that increase speed and consistency of delivery
- Build credibility as a trusted partner with Product, Engineering, and Executive stakeholders
Our take
Commercial real estate is a difficult business sector to plan for, especially for the largest firms managing huge portfolios of prime office space. Marketing, leasing, data analytics and retention efforts have traditionally required an array of different solutions, often poorly integrated with one another (if at all), and decision-making is often stymied by inaccurate reporting and inflexible, clunky tools.
VTS, a leading player in the commercial real estate tech sector, seeks to change this by unifying every real estate asset and function in a single platform. Combining marketing, asset management and reporting functions into a single interface, it also delivers data insights for decision makers to inform their investment and asset strategies.
VTS's user base has grown to over 45,000 commercial real estate firms including Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, and LaSalle Investment Management, and about 60% of the US's top quality office space is managed through its platform. Having raised a significant amount of funding it is investing heavily in research and development, sourcing strategic acquisitions and hiring additional talent.
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Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2022
$125m
SERIES E
May 2019
$90m
SERIES D
Total funding: $304.6m
Company benefits
- Parental Leave: 16 weeks 100% paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 6 weeks 100% paid leave for the secondary.
- Wellness: Dedicated monthly wellness events to promote physical and mental well-being.
- Exec coaching & mentorship: Extensive leadership coaching and mentorship offered through the year.
- Own a piece of VTS: Be an owner of the company you’re building with our equity packages.
- Never stop learning: VTS regularly hosts informal education sessions and provides an allowance for external courses.
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Nick Romito
(Co-Founder & CEO)Started his career in commercial real estate over a decade ago as a tenant rep and landlord broker at New York City’s Murray Hill Properties. Then went on to AM Properties before becoming the founder and CEO of Titan Advisors in 2009. Founded VTS in 2010.
Ryan Masiello
(Co-Founder)Started his career at Cushman & Wakefield, before getting recruited by JLL to help lead the firm’s business development efforts in New York, eventually becoming Senior Vice President.
Niall Smart
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously co-founder and CTO at Hightower, and earlier was co-founder of Echodio, a Y-Combinator backed digital media startup that was acquired by RealNetworks in 2009.
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