Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Poka Labs builds AI agents for chemical and industrial manufacturers that help commercial teams generate quotes, find products in large catalogs, and make better pricing decisions. The contract product designer will design new features and improve workflows across quoting and pricing products, translating complex requirements and customer feedback into intuitive, implementation-ready experiences while collaborating closely with founders and engineers.
Responsibilities
- Helping users review AI-recommended price changes across a large product catalog without becoming overwhelmed
- Making quote status, review requests, and next steps easy to understand
- Showing the reasoning behind AI recommendations at the right level of detail
- Incorporating customer feedback while supporting both simple and more complex workflows
- Build enough understanding of our product and customers to make decisions in context
- Turn requirements, customer feedback, and conversations into clear user flows and concrete designs
- Identify missing requirements, edge cases, and tradeoffs before engineering starts building
- Produce implementation-ready screens, prototypes, and concise interaction notes
- Work with engineers through implementation and refine designs based on feedback
- Establish reusable patterns where they help us build more consistently
Skills
- You're an experienced product designer with strong UX judgment and a track record of making complex software easier to use
- Experience designing B2B software with substantial workflows, tables, approvals, or other information-heavy interfaces
- The ability to reason through an ambiguous product problem and explain your decisions
- Good instincts for hierarchy, progressive disclosure, and helping users understand what to do next
- A practical approach to working with a small engineering team: you know where detail matters and when a straightforward solution is enough
- The independence to get up to speed, ask focused questions, and move work forward
- Comfort using AI tools to explore ideas and accelerate delivery while applying your own design judgment
- Chemical industry experience isn't required
- Experience with AI products or early-stage startups is helpful
Benefits
- Remote work
- Part-time schedule of approximately 10–15 hours per week
- Flexible scope and capacity arrangements
- Direct access to the founders and engineers
- Most collaboration happening asynchronously
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