Founding Product Designer

Responsibilities

• You will work directly with the founders, engineers, and customers to create intuitive workflows and enterprise-grade user experiences that make complex data and operational processes easy to understand and act upon.
• Product & UX Strategy
• Evaluate existing product experiences and identify usability improvements

Translate business requirements into intuitive user workflows

• Create multiple design concepts and recommendations for key product initiatives
• Partner with founders to shape product direction and user experience strategy
• Help define design principles and standards across the platform
• User Experience Design
• Design end-to-end user journeys and workflows
• Create wireframes, user flows, mockups, and interactive prototypes

Conduct usability reviews and recommend improvements

• Simplify complex operational and analytical workflows into intuitive experiences
• Design for enterprise users operating in logistics, asset management, manufacturing, and sustainability environments
• Product Design & Systems
• Create and maintain scalable design systems in Figma
• Establish reusable components and interaction patterns
• Ensure consistency across product experiences
• Collaborate closely with engineering to ensure designs can be efficiently implemented
• Participate in product roadmap and feature planning discussions
• Founding Team Contributions
• Bring product and customer insights into company discussions
• Challenge assumptions and advocate for users
• Help establish the product culture and design standards of the company
• Work cross-functionally across engineering, operations, and leadership
• Operate with a founder mentality and ownership mindset

Requirements

• Experience creating wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and design systems
• Strong understanding of UX principles, information architecture, and interaction design
• Experience collaborating directly with engineering teams
• Ability to clearly communicate design decisions and rationale

Preferred

• Experience designing SaaS, enterprise software, analytics platforms, operational tools, or workflow applications
• Experience in startup or early-stage environments
• Familiarity with data-heavy applications, dashboards, and reporting tools
• Experience conducting customer interviews and usability testing
• Understanding of AI-enabled products and workflow automation

The Opportunity

Buckstop is looking for a highly talented Founding Product Designer to help shape the user experience, workflows, and visual direction of our platform.

This is not a role for someone who simply executes mockups.

We are looking for a designer who can evaluate what has already been built, understand the business and customer requirements, identify opportunities for improvement, and present thoughtful design solutions.

The ideal candidate combines strong visual design skills with strategic product thinking and can confidently say:

"Here's what you've built, here's what's working, here's what isn't, and here are three approaches I'd recommend moving forward."

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Product Design, UI/UX Design, or User Experience roles
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design work
• Advanced proficiency in Figma

Who You Are

• You have exceptional design instincts and attention to detail
• You care deeply about both usability and visual quality
• You are comfortable presenting multiple solutions to a problem
• You think strategically rather than simply executing requests

You enjoy working directly with founders and engineers

• You thrive in ambiguity and can create structure where none exists
• You take ownership and operate with a builder mentality
• Why Buckstop
• Founding-team level influence on product direction

Direct collaboration with founders and engineering leadership

• Opportunity to define the design language of an emerging category leader
• Significant ownership and visibility across the company

Work on meaningful sustainability and circular economy challenges

• Potential pathway into a long-term Product Design leadership role as the company scales
• If you're excited about creating elegant experiences for complex enterprise workflows and helping shape a category-defining platform from the ground up, we'd love to hear from you.

Compensation

$40.00 - $50.00 / hour