Full-Time

Product Design Leader

Deepsky

Posted on 10/31/2025

Flow

Flow

201-500 employees

Develops rental properties fostering community well-being

No salary listed

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Hybrid

Category
UI/UX & Design (1)
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 12+ years of experience in product design, digital product strategy, or related fields
  • 5+ years of people management experience, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management
  • Portfolio showcasing end-to-end product design work across mobile and web applications, with measurable impact
Responsibilities
  • Define the long-term design vision for Flow’s property management and smart living platforms—balancing user needs, business outcomes, and technical possibilities
  • Actively contribute to product design—creating flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI for web and mobile applications
  • Manage, mentor, and grow a small but expanding team of product designers. Provide feedback, career development, and coaching while fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and accountability
  • Recruit top design talent, ensuring Flow attracts and retains world-class product designers
  • Lead the creation and evolution of a scalable design system that spans devices, contexts, and user groups
  • Design intuitive experiences that integrate IoT, automation, and connected home technology into everyday living
  • Partner with engineering, product management, and data science to bring insights to life and influence company-wide strategy through design thinking
  • Turn research, resident feedback, and behavioral insights into actionable improvements and breakthrough opportunities.
  • Measurement & Impact: Collaborate with analytics to track engagement, adoption, and satisfaction—using data to refine and elevate design outcomes
Desired Qualifications
  • Master’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or related field
  • Experience managing distributed design teams
  • Familiarity with smart home technologies, IoT platforms, or connected hardware/software ecosystems
  • Proven track record of leading design-driven products at scale, ideally in proptech, SaaS, IoT, or consumer platforms

Flow Life focuses on transforming the rental housing market by developing and managing apartment communities designed to foster social connection, well-being, and harmony with nature for urban renters. Its products are rental housing developments that emphasize communal spaces, neighbor interaction, and environmental integration, with experiences and services that support personal growth. The company makes money through rental income from its properties and aims to attract tenants who value community and a premium living experience. Compared with traditional landlords or generic multifamily operators, Flow Life differentiates itself by weaving community-building and nature-focused design into every property, aiming to improve tenant belonging and retention rather than just providing a place to rent. Its overarching goal is to help people live more connected and fulfilling lives by creating vibrant, connected communities within cities.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$450M

Headquarters

Miami, Florida

Founded

2022

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Raised $100M from a16z, valuing Flow at $2.5B.
  • Secured Miami development loan with Canada Global.
  • Expanded to Saudi Arabia, developing Riyadh complexes in 2024.

What critics are saying

  • Neumann's WeWork scandal triggers investor skepticism, collapsing valuation.
  • WeWork creditors sue Flow for $600M, freezing financing.
  • Miami project defaults on $17M loan from hurricane insurance costs.

What makes Flow unique

  • Flow reimagines renting via physical-digital lifestyle services.
  • Digital wallet with Bond enables seamless resident finance management.
  • Core values—give, grow, love, commit—foster community well-being.

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Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans

PTO

Commuter benefits

401(k) Plan

Monthly phone stipend

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

5%
TechCrunch
Apr 24th, 2025
Report: Adam Neumann’s Flow raises $100M+, more than doubles valuation to $2.5B

Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has raised over $100 million in capital for his proptech startup, Flow, in a round that values that company at about $2.5

Bloomberg Law
Apr 24th, 2025
Flow Raises $100M, Valued at $2.5B

Adam Neumann, former CEO of WeWork, has raised over $100 million for his new residential real estate company, Flow, in a funding round that values the business at approximately $2.5 billion. Investors include a16z. Neumann is considering the possibility of taking the company public in the future, as mentioned in an interview for the upcoming Bloomberg Originals series, Bullish with Sonali Basak.

FinanzNachrichten.de
Apr 8th, 2025
Apex Group Acquires Flow for $17bn

Apex Group Ltd. is acquiring FTS Tech, Inc. ("Flow"), a software provider for private markets, to enhance its fund management services. Flow, founded in 2018, adds 15 employees and $17 billion in assets under administration to Apex. The acquisition strengthens Apex's private markets infrastructure, offering streamlined investor onboarding, data management, and compliance. Legal advisors were Goodwin for Flow and Kirkland & Ellis for Apex.

CoStar
Mar 19th, 2025
Adam Neumann's Flow gets loan for Miami development site

Canada Global, an Israeli real estate firm led by Assaf Tuchmair and Barak Rosen, is teaming up with Flow to develop a mixed-use project on the site, according to The Real Deal.

Refresh Miami
Jan 24th, 2025
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