Product Designer
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About the role
We're hiring our second product designer to help shape the future of Adaptive. You'll drive the design of impactful, user-centric products that meet the real needs of small-business builders nationwide. Reporting to the Lead Designer, you'll partner day-to-day with a Product Manager and engineering counterparts to design and ship key product features - including the suite of AI agents we're building to automate construction back-office work. You'll define product experiences, contribute to our design system, and run user research to validate what we build.
Responsibilities
- Design and ship new product features end-to-end, in close partnership with product and engineering
- Participate in user research and usability testing to validate solutions and improve the experience
- Contribute to and help evolve the design system so design stays consistent and scalable across the platform
- Collaborate with stakeholders to align user needs, business goals, and product vision
Requirements
- 3-5 years of product design experience, ideally in SaaS or startup environments
- Strong skills in UX/UI design, user research, and design systems
- Demonstrated ability to own projects from concept to delivery
- Excellent communication and storytelling , with the ability to collaborate across product and engineering
- Comfort with fast-evolving processes and building in an AI-native product
Benefits
Additional Information
What we do Adaptive is a vertical AI company of 50, building the agentic operating system for the $2 trillion U.S. construction industry. We work with over 1,000 customers, partner with over 50 accounting firms, and have raised $26m from Emergence, a16z, and other top funds. Why join us? Win a massive category that's up for grabs. Construction is among the least digitized industries left, and no AI king has been crowned. With our momentum, team, and backing, we are in position to be that company Build a moat that compounds. We orchestrate multi-stakeholder workflows across an industry that today runs on paper, email, and phone calls. Every process we manage generates data no one else has. That data makes each new use case easier to expand to, while building a compounding moat Work with the rare team that can pull this off. Winning here takes deep construction knowledge and deep AI fluency in the same room. That intersection is rare, and we have it with backgrounds across finance, technology, and construction Serve the people building the world around you. Your favorite local café. The new house on the corner. The massive new skyscraper at Central Park South. All built by our customers: skilled, creative people who have spent their lives bringing neighborhoods to life
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