Thunkable

Product Designer

Thunkable$100K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience in product design with strong skills in UX research, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing polished design execution from concept to completion.
  • Proficiency in design and prototyping tools like Figma.
  • Experience in a fast-paced, growth-stage startup environment.
  • Ability to simplify complexity and create elegant design solutions.
  • Technical fluency for deep collaboration with engineering on advanced products.
  • Familiarity with mobile app ecosystems and responsive UX design.
  • Excellent communication skills for clear product copy and design rationale.

Responsibilities

  • Understand user needs through conversations, research, and testing.
  • Design user flows and interaction patterns while evolving the design system.
  • Create high-quality interfaces focusing on usability and visual clarity.
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering to simplify complex systems for users.
  • Rapidly prototype and iterate in a startup environment.
  • Communicate design decisions and connect them to product and business goals.
  • Work cross-functionally to launch ideas from concept to deployment.
  • Enhance product consistency and design standards across the platform.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity options
  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
  • Health and wellness benefits including a training budget
  • Flexible remote work options
  • Opportunities to shape the future of no-code and AI-driven development
Full Job Description
Role Overview

As a Product Designer at Thunkable, you'll solve complex problems - spanning the product, engineering and marketing organizations and be responsible for the features and projects you bring to life. You will work closely with our engineering team to define features as well as with our marketing team to support growth efforts.

Key Responsibilities

  • Deeply understand our users and their pain points through customer conversations, user research, interviews, and usability testing.
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  • Design intuitive user flows and interaction patterns while contributing to and evolving our design system.
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  • Create polished, high-quality interfaces with strong attention to usability, accessibility, visual clarity, and consistency.
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  • Partner closely with Product and Engineering to transform sophisticated technical systems into simple and elegant user experiences.
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  • Prototype and iterate quickly, balancing speed with craft in a fast-moving startup environment.
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  • Present and communicate design decisions clearly, connecting user experience choices to broader product strategy and business goals.
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  • Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, data, and marketing teams to bring ideas from concept to launch.
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  • Help improve overall product consistency, interaction quality, and design standards across the platform.
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Required Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience in product design, with strong foundations in UX research, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design.
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  • Strong portfolio demonstrating thoughtful product thinking, polished visual execution, and end-to-end product design work.
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  • Expertise with modern design and prototyping tools such as Figma
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  • Experience working in a fast-paced, growth-stage startup environment.
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  • Strong design craft with a passion for building experiences that are both beautiful and highly functional.
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  • Ability to think from first principles, simplify complexity, and craft elegant solutions.
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  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and moving quickly through 0-1 product development, rapid iteration, and experimentation.
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  • Strong product intuition and ownership mindset, with the ability to independently drive projects from concept to launch.
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  • Technical fluency with the ability to collaborate deeply with engineering teams on AI-native products, developer workflows, or technically sophisticated systems.
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  • Familiarity with mobile app ecosystems, mobile-first product design, and responsive UX patterns.
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  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear, concise, conversion-oriented product copy.
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  • Familiarity with no-code or low-code development platforms is highly preferred.
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Nice to Have

  • Experience using modern AI-powered design and creative tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, AI-assisted prototyping tools, or emerging AI-native design workflows to accelerate ideation, prototyping, content generation, and product iteration.
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  • Experience designing AI-native or generative AI products.
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  • Familiarity with front-end development, design systems implementation, or close collaboration with engineering teams on highly technical workflows.
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  • Experience working on mobile-first products, creator tools, developer platforms, or no-code / low-code products.
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$100,000 - $150,000 a year

What You'll Get:

- Competitive compensation, equity, and unlimited PTO

- Health, wellness, and training budget

- Global remote flexibility

- The opportunity to directly influence the future of no-code and AI-driven app development

About Thunkable

Thunkable is a mobile app development platform that allows users to create and publish their own apps without needing to know how to code. The platform uses a drag-and-drop interface and offers a variety of pre-built components and templates. Thunkable was founded in 2015 by two MIT graduates and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company's mission is to democratize app development and make it accessible to everyone.
Learn more about Thunkable
Size
50 employees
Industry
Founded
2015

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