Product Designer

About the Role

We’re hiring a Product Designer to join a growing operations and compliance SaaS platform built for trucking companies and fleet operators.

This is a hands-on design role for someone comfortable owning product design independently. You won’t be joining a large design team, but you also won’t be starting from zero. We have an existing product, an existing component foundation, and a strong need for someone who can bring structure, consistency, and design judgment as the platform grows.

Right now, product and design responsibilities sit too close together, which means things ship but design can become the bottleneck. You’ll help change that.

This engagement starts as a contract role with a clear path to full-time for the right person. You’ll work closely with the Product Manager and engineering team to move features from rough requirements to clear, thoughtful, dev-ready designs.

This is not a spec-decoration role. You’ll be involved while problems are still being shaped, asking the right questions, catching UX issues early, and making sure every workflow makes sense to the people using it.

This is a complex, workflow-heavy product with dense interfaces, operational edge cases, and detail-oriented users. There is a real opportunity to strengthen our design system, establish scalable patterns, and improve a product used daily in a highly regulated industry.

What You’ll Own

Product Design

• Wireframes and high-fidelity mockups for new features, from rough idea to dev-ready spec 
• Full user flow mapping, including screen states, empty states, error states, and edge cases 
• Multi-step workflows, data tables, dashboards, and complex forms 
• Fast iteration based on feedback from product, engineering, and users 
• Clear developer handoff with minimal ambiguity 

Design System

• Owning and improving our existing component library 
• Documenting reusable patterns so features feel consistent 
• Auditing the live product for inconsistencies and proposing practical fixes 
• Keeping design patterns aligned with what is actually in production 

Collaboration

• Serving as the primary design partner for product and engineering 
• Flagging UX concerns before development starts 
• Answering design questions during implementation 
• Reviewing built features against designs before release 
• Occasionally joining client feedback sessions to hear problems firsthand 

Research and Discovery

• Lightweight competitive analysis 
• Usability feedback when helpful 
• Translating client and user feedback into concrete design improvements 

How You’ll Work with Product

The Product Manager will continue to own roadmap priorities, business requirements, stakeholder communication, acceptance criteria, QA coordination, and release decisions.

Your role is to make sure that once we decide to build something, the experience has been thought through clearly before engineering starts. You’ll help shape the “how,” challenge unclear requirements, and turn complex workflows into usable product experiences.

Required

1. Portfolio with real web application design work, especially data tables, dashboards, complex forms, or multi-step workflows 
2. Experience designing enterprise, SaaS, or data-heavy tools such as ERP, CRM, finance, logistics, compliance, or similar platforms 
3. Proficiency in Figma or a comparable design platform, including component libraries and developer-ready handoff 
4. Ability to take a requirement, ask smart questions, and work independently 
5. Experience collaborating directly with engineering teams in an agile environment 
6. Working knowledge of AI tools to speed up design work while applying strong judgment and consistency 

Preferred

• Experience with role-based or permission-aware interfaces 
• Experience conducting user research or usability testing with specialist users 
• Awareness of accessibility standards and power-user needs 
• Background in compliance, logistics, trucking, fleet, or operations-heavy industries 
• Jira or similar product management tool experience 
• Basic understanding of front-end constraints 

How You Work

• Comfortable operating with a high level of autonomy 
• Able to improve an existing product without needing to restart from scratch 
• Strong at simplifying dense, complex workflows 
• Clear when explaining design decisions to non-designers 
• Practical, iterative, and not precious about feedback 
• Comfortable balancing speed, consistency, and usability 

We care more about how you think than how many years you have. Show us portfolio work where you solved a real, complex problem. Show us you can make a dense screen feel manageable. We’ll teach you the industry we need you to bring the design instincts.

Why This Role Is Worth Your Time

You’ll have real ownership

You’ll be the primary design voice and help shape how product design evolves here.

You’ll build on a foundation

There is already a product and component library in place. Your job is to improve, organize, and scale it.

You’ll be involved early

You won’t just decorate finished specs. You’ll help shape workflows before they reach engineering.

You’ll solve meaningful problems

Our users deal with compliance, operations, deadlines, and real-world complexity. Good design matters here.

You’ll grow with the platform

We’re expanding into new industries, and the patterns you create now will influence where the product goes next.

Clear contract-to-hire path

This starts as a contract so both sides can build trust before moving into a full-time role.