Turo

Senior Product Designer, Host

Turo$156K — $195K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of product design experience, focusing on both web and mobile platforms.
  • Exceptional interaction and visual design skills with a portfolio demonstrating high-quality work.
  • Ability to simplify complex design challenges while maintaining a premium visual standard.
  • Strong product judgment and communication skills for articulating design rationale.
  • Comfortable navigating from broad design concepts to detailed execution.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design from concept to high-fidelity execution across web and mobile.
  • Utilize prototyping to communicate ideas and align with partners during the design process.
  • Define and investigate user experience questions using data to inform design decisions.
  • Elevate UI and interaction craft to create clear and cohesive guest experiences.
  • Influence stakeholders with strong rationale and defined tradeoffs in design choices.
  • Balance creative exploration with practical simplification to achieve quality delivery.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and perks for all full-time employees.
  • Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Retirement employer match.
  • Learning & Development stipend for professional growth.
  • Paid time off, holidays, volunteer time off, and parental leave.
Full Job Description
As the world's largest car-sharing marketplace, Turo is growing, and we're hiring in the San Francisco Bay Area. We're looking for a Senior Product Designer on our Host Experience team who brings exceptional taste and a high craft bar, turning complex operational problems into experiences that feel simple, confident, and intuitive across native mobile and web.

At Turo, exceptional design is a driving force behind the end-to-end marketplace experience, shaping not only what we build, but how it feels and performs at scale. Many of our top priorities are seeded through research insights or a design-led vision, and designers play a meaningful role in influencing product strategy and direction.

Craft quality carries through implementation, supported by close partnership across product, engineering, and research. The work is elevated through thoughtful critique and deliberate iteration, grounded in empathy and kindness. Designers have a strong voice in how the experience looks, behaves, and expresses the Turo brand across consumer-facing and business-critical surfaces.

Product work is shaped by real user and business problems, and designers frequently partner with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to carry design thinking through key moments of the host journey.

What you will do

As a Senior Product Designer on the Host team, you'll shape high-quality, intuitive product experiences that directly impact how Turo's entrepreneurial hosts run and grow their businesses. You'll design core workflows across listings, pricing, communication, and operations, turning complex marketplace and operational problems into experiences that feel simple, confident, and intuitive across iOS, Android, and web.

You'll partner closely with product managers, researchers, engineers, data analysts, and fellow designers, including senior and lead designers, and take responsibility for design work within clearly scoped problem spaces. From discovery and ideation through interaction design, testing, and final visual polish, you'll deliver thoughtful, production-ready solutions that balance craft excellence with measurable business impact.

Responsibilities
  • Design intuitive, high-utility product experiences that simplify complex operational workflows and improve host efficiency, confidence, and earnings.
  • Lead design work for features and product areas within your scope, collaborating closely with cross-functional partners from early exploration through delivery.
  • Design clear, scalable interaction and interface patterns grounded in marketplace dynamics, pricing logic, and operational constraints.
  • Use qualitative research, experimentation, and data insights to inform design decisions and improve product quality and outcomes.
  • Define success metrics with your partners and measure the impact of your work on host behavior, satisfaction, and business performance.
  • Design tools and workflows that support real entrepreneurs running real businesses, balancing power, flexibility, and ease of use.
  • Raise the craft bar through strong interaction design, visual refinement, and attention to detail, while reducing complexity and design debt.
  • Communicate design thinking, rationale, and tradeoffs clearly, and incorporate feedback through thoughtful iteration.
  • Design systemically and contribute back to shared components, patterns, and design standards.
  • Model Turo's design principles, collaborative culture, and a high bar for ownership and execution.


Your profile
  • Exceptional interaction and visual design skills, with a strong portfolio demonstrating thoughtful, well-crafted product work.
  • 8+ years of experience designing and shipping high-quality mobile and web products.
  • Experience designing complex workflows or systems and turning ambiguity into clear, intuitive user experiences.
  • Experience partnering closely with user researchers to shape studies, learn from qualitative and quantitative research, and apply insights to design decisions.
  • A data-informed mindset, with a track record of using insights and metrics to elevate design quality and product outcomes.
  • A collaborative, low-ego approach with the ability to communicate your thinking clearly and influence cross-functional partners.
  • Strong judgment, adaptability, and a bias toward thoughtful execution in fast-moving environments.


For this role, the target base salary range in San Francisco is $156,000-$195,000 annually. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits. In general, our ranges reflect the market-based target for new hire salaries based on the level and location of the role. Within the range, individual pay is determined by objective factors assessed during the application and interview process, such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. We encourage you to talk with your recruiter to learn more about the total compensation and benefits available for this role.

Turo highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule - Turists will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursday. Turo considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Turo offers.

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We've learned that there are scammers targeting job candidates by impersonating Turo and its employees. We ask candidates to be careful of fraudulent job postings or suspicious recruiting activity during their job search, especially if they're contacted through unofficial channels (such as Instagram, Telegram, MS Teams, etc.). In general, Turo interacts with candidates through our Careers page and via turo.com email addresses, and we don't ask candidates for sensitive financial or personal info or request money as part of the hiring process (so an application fee or equipment costs). If candidates are not sure whether they're dealing with an impersonator, they can contact Turo's Recruiting Team at [redacted]. Candidates can also report suspicious activity to the FTC or other appropriate authorities.

Turo AI Policy:

Turo may use AI-enabled tools to support our recruiting operations, including gathering information from candidates, drafting communications, helping with interview note-taking and assessment, and so on. These tools only supplement our team; all decisions to advance or hire candidates are made by Turo employees. While we welcome candidates to use AI-enabled tools to help prepare for their interviews, the use of such tools, including any AI chatbots or note-takers, is not permitted during live interviews or technical assessments. We want to see how you consider and solve problems in real-time, so interviews and assessments are all you (unless we indicate otherwise and ask you specifically to use an AI-enabled tool to answer a question). If during the application process you require the use of an AI-enabled tool as a reasonable accommodation for a disability, please let us know at [redacted].

Benefits
  • Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and perks for all full-time employees
  • Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (Country specific)
  • Retirement employer match
  • Learning & Development stipend to invest in your professional development
  • Turo host matching program
  • Turo travel credit
  • Cell phone and internet stipend
  • Paid time off to relax and recharge
  • Paid holidays, volunteer time off, and parental leave
  • For those who are in the office full-time or hybrid we have in-office lunch, office snacks, and fun activities


We are committed to building a diverse team. If you are from a background that's underrepresented in tech, we'd love to meet you.

Aside from an award winning work environment and the opportunity to be part of the world's largest car sharing marketplace, we are also growing the team quickly - join us! Even if you don't meet every qualification, we are looking for people with enthusiasm for what we do and we will consider you for this and other possibilities.

About Turo

Turo is a peer-to-peer car sharing company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company was founded in 2009 by Shelby Clark and has since grown to over 10 million users in over 5,500 cities worldwide. Turo allows car owners to rent out their personal vehicles to other users, providing an alternative to traditional car rental companies. The company offers a variety of vehicles, from economy cars to luxury vehicles and sports cars.
Learn more about Turo
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2009

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