Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kantata is building modern software for the professional services industry. They are hiring a Senior Product Designer to craft end-to-end design for high-impact areas of their platform, impacting every end user of Kantata.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end design (problem framing → shipped experience)
- Partner with PM to define problems, shape solutions, and sequence work
- Work with Engineering to deliver scalable, well-executed solutions
- Improve coherence across interaction design, IA, and system behavior
- Ship net-new AI-driven workflows and improve core product flows
- Improve structure, navigation, and overall coherence
- Drive consistency across interaction patterns and system behavior
- Contribute to our design system in partnership with engineering
- Align with Content Design on clarity and terminology
- Mentor other product designers
- Operate with high autonomy and initiative
- Form strong opinions through research, discovery, and iteration
- Clearly articulate design tradeoffs
- Design beyond screens—flows, structure, and behavior
- Move efficiently while maintaining clarity and quality
- Identify patterns, abstractions, reusable structures
- Understand system-level impact of local decisions
- Design for scale, consistency, extensibility
- Strong command of flows, states, edge cases
- Clear user intent and system response
- Structure complex domains into clear models
- Improve navigation, hierarchy, conceptual clarity
- Frame problems before solving
- Navigate tradeoffs across user, business, and technical constraints
- Clear articulation of decisions and tradeoffs
- Ability to influence and align
- Comfortable across disciplines
Skills
- Own end-to-end design (problem framing → shipped experience)
- Partner with PM to define problems, shape solutions, and sequence work
- Work with Engineering to deliver scalable, well-executed solutions
- Improve coherence across interaction design, IA, and system behavior
- Ship net-new AI-driven workflows and improve core product flows
- Improve structure, navigation, and overall coherence
- Drive consistency across interaction patterns and system behavior
- Contribute to our design system in partnership with engineering
- Align with Content Design on clarity and terminology
- Mentor other product designers
- Operate with high autonomy and initiative
- Form strong opinions through research, discovery, and iteration
- Clearly articulate design tradeoffs
- Design beyond screens—flows, structure, and behavior
- Move efficiently while maintaining clarity and quality
- Identify patterns, abstractions, reusable structures
- Understand system-level impact of local decisions
- Design for scale, consistency, extensibility
- Strong command of flows, states, edge cases
- Clear user intent and system response
- Experience with complex, multi-step workflows
- Structure complex domains into clear models
- Improve navigation, hierarchy, conceptual clarity
- Frame problems before solving
- Navigate tradeoffs across user, business, and technical constraints
- Clear articulation of decisions and tradeoffs
- Ability to influence and align
- Comfortable across disciplines
- Experience with B2B SaaS
- Experience with complex, data-rich or platform products
- Experience evolving established, production-scale systems
- Experience using and contributing to a design system
- Familiarity with modern frontend concepts (React, components)
- Understands AI system behavior (deterministic vs probabilistic behavior, user control)
- Actively leverages AI tools to inform and accelerate design work
- Open to working closer to implementation as design and frontend roles converge
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