Senior Product Designer

📋 Description

• • Design product experiences rooted in human behaviour—motivation, habit, and friction—before screens or components, using deep user insights to drive product decisions.
• • Lead product design at a high-growth startup where you are the most senior design hire, serving as the instinctive first point of contact across the company for all product, experience, and communication decisions.
• • Collaborate directly with an existing designer, an early-product manager hire, and engineers to shape foundational product experiences and define design-process norms.
• • Ship high-quality, premium product interfaces with speed and precision, using Figma, ShadCN, and Tailwind CSS while maintaining coherence across web and mobile web platforms.
• • Design AI-powered productivity features including live transcription tools, personalized AI draft generation that adapts to individual communication styles, and complex cross-surface workflows that feel effortless despite underlying complexity.
• • Create interaction designs for real-time notetaking systems that surface contextual insights without overwhelming users, ensuring calm, intuitive, and coherent experiences.
• • Build and align design systems with engineering workflows using components compatible with ShadCN, Tailwind CSS, and V0, ensuring seamless integration with AI-assisted development pipelines.
• • Conduct independent user research—including user interviews, session recording analysis, and survey interpretation—to validate, challenge, or pivot design directions with data-backed reasoning.
• • Work closely with engineers to understand technical constraints and co-create solutions that balance ambition with feasibility, avoiding static handoffs in favor of collaborative implementation.
• • Design custom internal tooling that empowers the engineering team with design-aligned components and workflows, reducing friction between product and engineering.
• • Think natively in AI-native design contexts—understanding how AI-generated outputs impact user trust, perception of control, and interface predictability—and design accordingly.
• • Own end-to-end design ownership in a fast-moving, early-stage environment where processes are not inherited but built from scratch, adapting quickly as the product and team evolve.
• • Use PostHog for analytics, session recordings, and surveys to inform design decisions and measure user behaviour across the product.
• • Shape how the company thinks about its users by consistently applying a human-behaviour-first lens to product strategy, prioritizing understanding over aesthetics.
• • Deliver scalable design systems that remain coherent as teams move rapidly with AI-assisted development, ensuring consistency across all touchpoints without sacrificing speed or quality.
• • Drive the creation of products where AI is not a gimmick but a natural, daily habit—designing experiences that make complex functionality feel simple, invisible, and intuitive.
• • Be instrumental in defining the foundational relationship between product design and product management, helping to establish norms that scale as the company grows.
• • Maintain high standards of craft and execution without compromising velocity, ensuring every shipped feature feels polished and intentional.
• • Operate with autonomy and ownership in a small, exceptional team where impact is direct and visibility is high, accelerating into senior responsibilities faster than at traditional organizations.