Senior Product Designer

Why You Should Join Our Team

As a Product Designer at Smartcat, you won’t just create UI — you’ll be a key strategic partner in an empowered product team. You'll drive the future of user experience for a platform that reshapes how global content is created, localized, and delivered. This is your chance to leave your mark on a $100B+ industry and help shape a category-defining product alongside an ambitious, highly skilled, and globally distributed team.

Mission

To redefine and elevate the experience of multilingual content creation by partnering with product and engineering to build intuitive, intelligent, and scalable solutions that our users love.

Outcomes

• Partner deeply with Product Managers and Engineers as a key member of an empowered product team — from problem discovery to solution delivery — contributing to strategy, shaping outcomes, and ensuring exceptional user experience.
• Conduct in-depth user research, run usability tests, and gather feedback to inform and validate design decisions.
• Create wireframes, low-fidelity drafts, and interactive prototypes that bring design concepts to life.
• Build and maintain a design system and style guide to ensure consistency and a seamless experience across the platform.
• Deliver high-quality, pixel-perfect designs for web and mobile that engage and delight users.
• Iterate rapidly based on user insights, feedback, and changing project needs.
• Proactively explore and apply new tools and technologies — including AI — to improve design quality, speed, and user understanding.
• Continuously evolve our design practices and bring fresh, creative approaches to problem-solving.

How You’ll Ramp

By Day 30

• Understand our product, customers, and business goals.
• Get up to speed on our design system, tools, and processes.
• Partner with your PM and Engineering leads to align on current priorities and areas of focus.

By Day 60

• Lead user research and validation activities for your area.
• Start delivering design artifacts for upcoming product initiatives.
• Proactively suggest improvements to design process or tools.

By Day 90

• Own design execution in your product area end-to-end.
• Contribute to shaping product strategy with insights and design perspective.
• Introduce or pilot one new tool, method, or workflow that helps level up design quality or velocity.

What You’ve Accomplished (Qualifications)

• Proven Product Designer with a portfolio that sets the industry standard.
• Expert-level skills in Figma.
• Strong advocate for user-centered design and deep understanding of usability principles.
• Ability to clearly communicate design decisions to both designers and non-designers.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Familiarity with UI animation, HTML, CSS, and front-end development is a plus.
• Data-driven mindset with the ability to support design choices with metrics and research.
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate design, prototyping, or research is a plus.
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for experimenting with new tools and technologies, especially AI.
• High integrity and full commitment to quality and outcomes.
• Growth-oriented, product-focused mindset.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment with a strong sense of ownership.
• Receptive to feedback and open to diverse perspectives.