Product Designer

About the company Our client is a fast-growing software company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as the first dedicated designer on a small team, shaping how a multi-audience software product looks, feels and behaves. Blend design craft with hands-on front-end coding, and partner closely with leadership, engineering, product and go-to-market colleagues to ship quickly. What you'll do - Get to know the product deeply across every type of user and pinpoint where people run into friction. - Create and maintain shared visual and interaction standards, tidying up inconsistencies that piled up while the team shipped without a design owner. - Review usage analytics and session recordings to learn what works, then turn those findings into concrete improvements. - Collaborate with engineering, product and go-to-market colleagues so the experience feels coherent on every screen. - Redesign and build the company marketing site ahead of launch, from page structure and navigation through visuals to front-end code. **Requirements** What we're looking for - 2 to 4 years of product design experience, including time as an early or founding designer at a startup. - Strong technical fluency and comfort communicating with engineers. - Experience designing software for technical or hardware-related products. - Skill in Figma for UX and visual work, plus production TypeScript coding, shown in a polished portfolio of shipped work. - Experience creating reusable component libraries and guidelines and keeping a whole product aligned to them. - Familiarity with product analytics tools for guiding design decisions. - Clear communication across functions. - Comfort with the fast pace of an early-stage startup, including occasional extra hours. - Based in San Francisco and able to work in the office 3 to 4 days per week. **Benefits** Compensation and benefits - Base salary: USD 140,000 to 185,000 per year - Equity Location and work model - San Francisco, CA, United States - Hybrid, 3 to 4 days per week in office - Full-time