Published: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:51:07 GMT
Product Designer at Covalent Networks
Who We Are:
Covalent Networks is a fast-paced, SaaS startup revolutionizing how top industrial companies manage their workforce data. We are dedicated to building data-heavy tools that power the future of manufacturing and workforce management. Our platform enables supervisors and teams to make better, faster decisions with tools designed for frontline intelligence. We are currently expanding our capabilities with new AI/LLM features and are seeking an experienced designer to lead the charge.
What You’ll Do:
As our lead design hire, you will be responsible for all design aspects of the company, from shaping user experiences to prototyping new AI/LLM-powered concepts. In the short term, you will collaborate with product and engineering teams to rapidly explore, prototype, and validate high-impact features. Over time, your role will evolve into the design leader for the organization, helping us build scalable, beautiful, and intuitive workflows for our users.
This is a rare opportunity to not only define the user experience of a fast-growing product, but also shape our entire design culture, system, and strategy.
In this role, you will:
– Design user-centric experiences from concept to implementation, balancing usability with technical feasibility.
– Prototype and test new ideas, particularly AI-driven features, using tools like Figma or similar.
– Lead UX discovery efforts through user research, interviews, usability testing, and feedback loops.
– Iterate rapidly based on insights, feedback, and changing priorities.
– Partner closely with engineering and product teams to scope and ship intuitive, high-impact features.
– Establish and evolve a design system that will scale with the platform.
– Lay the foundation for our internal design practice and help grow a thoughtful, consistent design language.
– Communicate clearly across teams and stakeholders to advocate for design and articulate your decisions.
Requirements:
What We’re Looking For:
– 3+ years of experience in product or UX/UI design (experience with B2B SaaS or data-heavy apps is a plus).
– Proficiency in Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or equivalent tools for wireframing and prototyping.
– Experience designing and shipping intuitive, user-first interfaces in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
– Strong user research and discovery skills; comfortable speaking with users and translating insights into action.
– A systems thinker – capable of building and maintaining reusable components, patterns, and scalable design systems.
– Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, and able to switch between high-level vision and tactical execution.
– A technical mindset – able to effectively communicate with engineers, understand constraints, and design realistic solutions.
– Familiarity with design thinking methodologies and customer discovery frameworks.
– Excellent communication skills – able to align stakeholders and tell compelling product stories.
– Strategic vision – able to shape and drive the overall design vision in line with the company’s goals and product vision.
– Bonus: Experience with AI/LLM-powered UX or designing in frontier tech environments.
– This position must meet Export Control compliance requirements, therefore a “US Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 is required. “US Person” includes a US Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.
Benefits:
Why You’ll Love It Here:
– Work directly with the Head of Product and co-founders on meaningful, high-impact problems.
– Become an early contributor to a growing technology organization in a high-growth startup.
– Take ownership and leadership as our first design hire, helping define our product DNA.
– Build at the intersection of AI, manufacturing, and modern workforce tech.
– Fully remote with flexible hours and unlimited PTO.
– Annual home office stipend and learning and development program.
– Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
– Competitive compensation and meaningful equity – you’ll help shape the future and share in its success.
About the Company:
Covalent Networks started as a research initiative to understand the drivers of the skills gap in advanced manufacturing and energy. Our research revealed that the majority of industrial employers still track worker qualifications offline, limiting access to data that can provide deep insight into how their workforce needs to evolve.
In response, Covalent Networks designed a unique, cloud-based software solution purpose-built to manage end-to-end qualifications in complex, industrial environments. By doing so, we capture data required to improve company operations, individual employment outcomes, and ultimately contribute to closing the skills gap.
We are an agile, passionate team focused on improving workforce outcomes and delivering value to companies and individuals through access to better data.
Covalent Networks is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Apply link
