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# Senior Product Designer at HappyCo

- **Company:** HappyCo
- **Location:** Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-01-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/happyco/cae68d58-cc05-4d2e-8828-19ccaebfb201

## Job description

HappyCo is a company where people can grow their careers and work with like minded people, with no egos or politics. HappyCo is values driven and offers a flexible, supportive culture. Join HappyCo and Make Work Happy!

## About the Role

You'll own product experiences end-to-end. From problem framing through delivery and iteration, embedded in a product triad with a PM and Engineering Lead. This is a high-autonomy role for designers who operate independently, think in systems, and are already building with AI – not just aware of it. We're hiring across multiple problem spaces. Placement will be based on your strengths and business needs. ___________________________________

Problem Spaces You May Work In

Depending on product priorities and your strengths, you may work in one or more of the following areas:

Procurement & Sourcing Designing workflows for vendor discovery, pricing comparison, purchasing, approvals, and supplier performance across large multifamily portfolios.

Asset & Portfolio Performance Designing dashboards, analytics, and scenario-modeling tools that help operators understand property performance, identify risks and opportunities, and improve returns.

These products are information-dense, highly interconnected, and used by multiple roles across an organization. Increasingly, they also incorporate AI-powered interfaces that allow users to proactively query their data, surface insights, and receive recommendations through agentic, conversational, and voice-enabled interactions. Designing clarity, trust, and usability into these systems, across both traditional interfaces and AI-assisted experiences, is core to the role.

## What You’ll Do

- Own a product area fully: discovery, design, delivery, analysis, iteration
- Work backwards from real customer problems and translate complexity into clear, scalable solutions
- Make data-dense, information-rich interfaces easy to use. Dashboards, workflows and AI-assisted experiences
- Shape agentic workflows, conversational interfaces, and voice-enabled interactions where they improve outcomes
- Make AI capabilities feel understandable, trustworthy, and usable – not just impressive
- Use AI actively in your own process to move faster and think deeper
- Run lightweight research, synthesize insights, and act as the evidence-backed voice for the customer
- Champion our design system, contribute to craft standards, and raise the bar in every critique

## What You Bring

- 5–8 years shipping web-based SaaS or enterprise products at scale
- Demonstrate end-to-end ownership with real shipped work, including AI-assisted experiences
- You are actively using AI tools today. Claude, Cursor, Lovable, v0 – whatever fits your workflow. This is a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have.
- Strong systems thinking across complex, interconnected product surfaces. Furthermore, knowing when to lean on systems and when to break out of them. You balance rigour with creativity.
- High autonomy. You move work forward without waiting for direction
- Clear communication, comfort with ambiguity

Strongly Valued

- Background in complex domains: analytics, operations tooling, procurement, marketplaces, or similar
- Familiarity with agentic experiences
- Comfort working close to code or prototyping with code
- Multifamily or proptech experience is a plus, not a prerequisite

Why Join HappyCo?

- High autonomy, high support. Trusted to lead, supported to grow
- Culture that genuinely values design and craft
- Remote-friendly, flexible hours
- Work that reaches millions of residents and thousands of property teams
- HappyCo fosters a values-led, inclusive, and people-first culture where everyone thrives. [Learn more on our careers page, and check out our benefits](https://happy.co/company/careers#positions). HappyCo is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.

## About HappyCo

Founded in 2011, HappyCo (happy.co) builds mobile and cloud solutions to enable real-time property data. Our flagship product suite 'Happy Property’ has more than 5 million units on its platform.

We’re everyday people with a shared purpose — improving the lives of others. Our team is made up of thinkers, talkers, planners, makers, builders and everything in between. Together, we’re turning our passions into happier communities!

When customers use our software, their communities get stronger. Our tools empower everyone in multifamily property management to improve their operations and maximize returns, which means they’re building better experiences for their residents. Learn more about our Product Vision here!

Our HappyCo Culture & Values HappyCo strives to build better communities. So naturally, we are dedicated to making our own community an enjoyable place that lets us do our best work. We’re devoted to building an inclusive, supportive culture that empowers each HappyCo’er to succeed and grow. To learn more about our culture, check out our Glassdoor page and our careers page!

HappyCo’s culture is driven by our core values of Make Happiness, Better Together, Get Good Sh*t Done, Customer Obsessed and Kaizen - sounds great, right, but what does this mean for you?

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that HappyCo upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status. HappyCo is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.

A note to Recruitment Agencies: Please don’t reach out to us about our roles -- we’ve got it covered. We don’t accept unsolicited agency resumes and HappyCo is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes

A note on hiring scams: All legitimate communication from HappyCo about this role — including interview scheduling, offer letters, and any request for personal information — will come from an @happy.co email address. We will never conduct interviews over chat-only platforms (e.g., Telegram, WhatsApp, Skype) or ask you to pay for equipment, training, or background checks. If you receive an offer or interview request from any other domain, please don’t respond, and report it to us at recruitingscam@happy.co

## About HappyCo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: HappyCo is a mobile and cloud platform for inspecting, managing, and monitoring multifamily residential properties and commercial facilities, built maintenance-first and powered by its proprietary AI, JoyAI.
- **Entity Type**: Private (profitable, with 7 prior funding rounds; not publicly traded)
- **Headquarters**: Carlsbad, California, USA (founded in Adelaide, Australia; remote-first workforce across US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand)
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Jindou Lee (CEO) and Andrew Mackenzie-Ross

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Property technology (PropTech), multifamily property management software, maintenance operations, asset management, real estate inspection
- **Target customers**: B2B Enterprise — multifamily owners and operators, fee managers, property management companies (PMCs) of all sizes, and lenders. Works with some of the top 50 NMHC owners and managers.
- **Mission**: "Happy properties make happy communities" — giving multifamily professionals everything they need to streamline operations, maximize returns, and create better resident experiences.

## Products & Services
- **Happy Property**: Onsite management solutions to optimize day-to-day operations, including inspections, task management, and maintenance workflows with certified integrations to leading property management systems (Yardi Voyager, MRI, RealPage, Entrata, ResMan, Rent Manager, AppFolio).
- **Happy Asset**: Asset management solutions for evaluating and closing deals — covering capital projects, fixed assets, audits, due diligence, deal management, property budgeting, leasing, and renewals.
- **Happy Force**: Remote maintenance services (launched 2022) — a virtual maintenance offering designed to retain staff and residents by reducing onsite burdens.
- **JoyAI**: Custom-trained proprietary AI that automates and optimizes maintenance scheduling, 24/7 resident communications, intelligent inventory management, and technician matching.
- **Happy Due Diligence & Call Complete**: Service products added in 2021 to support the full portfolio lifecycle.
- **Optigo Happy℠ Inspection Platform**: A 2018 joint offering with Freddie Mac Multifamily that helps lenders connect with Freddie Mac to deliver inspection data for underwriting and closing loans faster.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (privately held)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue ~$11M (per LinkedIn company data); currently thriving and profitable per company statements
- **Employees**: ~124 (+3.9% YoY, +9 people), distributed across 11 countries including the US, Australia, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Freddie Mac Multifamily (Optigo Happy partnership, 2018); certified integrations with Yardi, MRI, RealPage, Entrata, ResMan, Rent Manager, and AppFolio; top 50 NMHC owners and managers as customers
- **Growth Signals**: Has in-unit data on over 3.5 million rental homes; expanded from a single inspection tool to three product lines plus AI (JoyAI) and remote services; continued hiring across engineering, sales, marketing, and design roles recently.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Category-leading inspection platform**: Founder Jindou Lee built the tool out of personal pain as a real estate investor — giving the product deep, authentic domain insight from day one.
- **Certified integrations moat**: Deep, certified integrations with all major property management systems (Yardi, MRI, RealPage, Entrata, ResMan, Rent Manager, AppFolio) create stickiness and switching costs.
- **Freddie Mac partnership**: Exclusive-ish position with a major government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) for loan underwriting inspections.
- **Proprietary AI (JoyAI)**: Custom-trained AI embedded throughout the platform, differentiating them from legacy inspection tools.
- **Profitable and independent**: Remains privately held and profitable, allowing long-term product bets without public-market pressure.
- **Scale of data**: Data across 3.5+ million rental homes provides a network-effects advantage for benchmarking and AI training.

## Strategic Focus
- **Maintenance-first vertical expansion**: Extending from inspections into full maintenance operations, remote services, and asset management to cover the entire portfolio lifecycle from acquisition to disposition.
- **AI-powered automation**: Deepening JoyAI's role across scheduling, resident communications, inventory, and technician matching to reduce onsite labor burdens.
- **Market recovery enablement**: Leveraging remote tools (Happy Force) to address lingering COVID-era staffing and market-impact challenges.
- **Integration ecosystem growth**: Continuously pursuing new integration partners alongside existing PMS certifications.
- **Scaling headcount**: Actively hiring across engineering, sales, marketing, design, and virtual maintenance roles to support growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Team spans the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and beyond — designed to keep people connected ("you'll always feel right at home") regardless of location.
- **Equity for all**: Stock options granted to all employees as part of total compensation.
- **Strong US benefits package**: 100% employer-paid employee premium on a high-deductible health plan (Aetna or Kaiser Permanente), $100/month HSA funding, dental and vision through Guardian, and up to $50,000 company-provided life/AD&D insurance for US full-time employees.
- **Empowered Teams model**: Product, Design & Engineering teams operate with high agency, collaboration over hierarchy, and a "can-do" accountability culture.
- **Mission-driven work**: Direct line of sight between software and real-world outcomes — better property conditions, more effective staff, happier residents.
- **Growth and mobility**: Company emphasizes internal movement, competitive and equitable pay (market-data-based), and career growth tied to fast scaling.
- **Global, eclectic team**: Described as collaborative, diverse, intelligent, and "silly" — a culture that values both big dreaming and game-changing execution.

## Sources
1. [HappyCo Company page](https://happy.co/company)
2. [HappyCo Careers page](https://happy.co/company/careers)
3. [HappyCo Employee Benefits USA](https://happy.co/company/careers/employee-benefits-usa)
4. [HappyCo on LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/happyco)
5. [HappyCo Job Openings on Lever](https://jobs.lever.co/happyco)

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