Product Designer

About This Role

This Product Designer role leads complex design initiatives, shaping high-quality, customer-centered experiences across Karbon's product. As an individual contributor, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy, defining problems, exploring solutions, and delivering well-crafted designs end-to-end. You will partner deeply with Product and Engineering, influence standards and quality beyond your own work, and help elevate the overall design practice.

Responsibilities

• Own Experience end to end: Partner with Product and Engineering to define the problem space
• Use LLMs to clarify intent, draft briefs, pressure-test assumptions, and surface edge cases and risks before committing to a direction
• Prototype to set direction: Use AI-assisted tools to build and iterate on flows and lightweight interfaces quickly
• Let AI accelerate the generation while you guide structure, behavior, and craft
• Partner with engineers to decide what moves into the product
• Validate with customers early: Talk directly with customers, run quick tests, and use what you learn to adjust direction
• Treat research as a velocity tool, not a gate
• Refine in Figma: Translate validated concepts into designs with complete state coverage, system alignment, and production readiness
• Design for the platform: Move complexity under the hood so that experiences feel effortless for customers
• Encode design judgement into decisions and principles that our people and tools can follow
• Drive our craft forward with patterns, prompts, and an attention to detail that compounds over time

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of experience in product design, ideally within B2B SaaS or complex product environments
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design thinking, interaction design, visual craft, and problem-solving across complex systems
• Proven ability to work autonomously on ambiguous problems and drive work forward with clarity and ownership
• Active use of LLMs in your design workflow, for problem framing, research synthesis, prototyping, or iteration, not just awareness of them
• Comfort using AI-assisted development tools to build and iterate on concepts, even without writing production code
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with experience partnering closely with Product and Engineering
• Comfort balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution
• Experience contributing to or working within established design systems
• Passion for high-quality, customer-centered design and continuous improvement

Nice to have:

• Experience designing for vertical SaaS, professional services, or accounting-adjacent products