Product Designer

About the role

You’ll be our second designer, working alongside Maren, our Design Lead, and owning flows end to end — from ride-along research with logistics teams to the shipped UI. Windrose is a dense-data product: boards, timelines, exception queues. The craft here is making a thousand rows feel like one calm answer.

You’ll also help grow Chartroom, our design system, so the product keeps feeling like one hand drew it.

What you’ll do

Run discovery with logistics teams — ride-alongs, board reviews, support-ticket archaeology.
Design dense, legible data UI: tables, timelines, and exception queues that read at a glance.
Extend Chartroom with documented, accessible components.
Prototype at whatever fidelity gets the answer fastest — paper to code.
Ship with engineers weekly, then sand the edges after launch.
Help define what “calm software” means for operations work.

What we’re looking for

4+ years designing B2B or data-heavy product.
A portfolio that shows systems thinking, not just polished screens.
Comfort making tables, charts, and empty states genuinely legible.
You write clearly and present your own work.
You’ve worked elbow-to-elbow with engineers in short cycles.

Nice to have

You prototype in code — HTML/CSS or React.
Time spent in logistics, fintech ops, or another gloriously unglamorous domain.
Working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2).
You’ve tended a pattern library before and it survived you leaving.

Compensation & benefits

Base salary is $120k–$155k depending on level and location, plus equity of 0.08%–0.20% with a 10-year exercise window. Full benefits are on the jobs page.

How we hire

Intro call with Maren, our Design Lead (30 min).
Portfolio walkthrough — you drive (60 min).
Paid design working session on a real board problem (3 h).
Crew conversations and offer (2 × 30 min).

The working session is paid and time-boxed — no spec work, no unpaid take-homes. We reply to every application within five business days.