Technical Product Designer

A1 Valet Trash

$100K — $120K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years as a product/UX designer or design engineer with a proven portfolio of shipped products.
  • Proficiency in front-end code (HTML/CSS/JS or React) for prototyping and collaborating with engineers.
  • Strong skills in interaction and visual design, knowing when to focus on detail.
  • Ability to work independently in a small team environment wearing multiple hats.
  • Experience with design systems or component libraries.

Responsibilities

  • Own product design for a specific Pod, collaborating on discovery and testing.
  • Contribute to the design system by designing and possibly implementing components.
  • Collaborate with the Head of Design to enhance design infrastructure for better team synchronization.
  • Support the Design team in frontend-adjacent tasks like polishing UI and creating prototypes.
  • Engage in customer calls and conduct user research alongside the Design team.

Benefits

  • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
  • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
  • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
  • Training & Development
  • Work From Home
  • Free Food & Snacks
Full Job Description
ABOUT THE ROLE

We're hiring a Technical Product Designer to join a small, high-impact design team. This is a Product Design role first - you'll own real feature work end to end, from concept through shipped experience. What makes it different: you're comfortable enough with front-end code (React, component-based systems) to partner directly with engineering on our design system, and help contribute to our "design-to-code" workflows.

You won't be asked to ship production features solo - you'll be a design-side technical partner who helps close the gap between what we design and what we build.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
  • Own product design work for one of our Pod's - partnering with Product and Engineering on discovery, concepting, prototyping, and testing.
  • Help strengthen and extend our design system alongside another designer, including contributing directly by designing and potentially implementing components where useful.
  • Pair with Head of Design to explore design infrastructure that makes it easier for Design, Product, and Engineering to stay in sync (e.g., AI-enabled design workflows, design-to-code processes)
  • Help set up the Design team to pick up frontend-adjacent work that often falls between design and engineering - polish, small UI fixes that rarely get prioritized, prototyping in code.
  • Participate in customer calls and research alongside the rest of the Design team.


Requirements

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
  • 3+ years as a product/UX designer or design engineer, with a portfolio showing real shipped product work, not just concepts.
  • Comfortable reading and writing basic front-end code (HTML/CSS/JS or React) - enough to prototype, contribute to a design system, or have a real conversation with engineers about implementation.
  • Strong craft fundamentals: interaction design, visual design, and the judgment to know when detail matters and when it doesn't.
  • Self-sufficient and comfortable in a small team where you'll wear a few hats.
  • Experience working directly with a design system or component library team.


NICE TO HAVE
  • Experience with AI-assisted design/developer tooling (i.e. MCPs, design-harnesses, etc.).
  • Experience at a B2B SaaS or vertical software company.
  • Experience with customer or user research


Benefits
  • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
  • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
  • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
  • Training & Development
  • Work From Home
  • Free Food & Snacks

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