Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join Smartcat's Product Design team and become a key strategic partner, driving the future of user experience for a platform reshaping global content creation, localization, and delivery. You will contribute to strategy, shaping outcomes, and ensuring exceptional user experience. This role offers the chance to impact a $100B+ industry and work with a highly skilled, globally distributed team. The mission is to redefine and elevate the experience of multilingual content creation by building intuitive, intelligent, and scalable solutions. You'll partner with Product Managers and Engineers, conduct user research, create designs, and iterate rapidly based on feedback. Smartcat is a fully remote company with a strong focus on innovation and inclusion.

Requirements

• 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
• Data-driven mindset with the ability to support design choices with metrics and research
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with UI animation, HTML, CSS, and front-end development is a plus
• 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

Benefits

Fully remote team