Principal Product Designer

PermitFlow is redefining how America builds. We’re an applied AI company serving the nation’s builders, tackling one of the largest information challenges in the economy: understanding what can be built, where, and how. Our AI agent workforce helps the fastest-growing construction companies navigate everything from permitting and licensing to inspections and project closeouts – accelerating housing, clean-energy, and infrastructure development across the country. Despite being a $1.6T industry, construction still suffers from massive delays, wasted capital, and lost opportunity. PermitFlow has already delivered unprecedented speed, accuracy, and visibility to over $20B in development, helping contractors reduce compliance time, de-risk projects, and scale with confidence. As the U.S. enters a new capex supercycle across data centers, factories, housing, and renewables, joining PermitFlow means building the AI infrastructure at the core of every construction project driving the next wave of reindustrialization. We’ve raised over $90M, most recently completing our Series B, from top-tier investors including Accel, Kleiner Perkins Initialized, Y Combinator, Felicis, and Altos Ventures, with backing from leaders at OpenAI, Google, Procore, ServiceTitan, Zillow, PlanGrid, and Uber. Our HQ is in New York City with a hybrid schedule (3 in-office days per week). We prefer NYC-based candidates or those open to relocation.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Principal Product Designer at PermitFlow, you are the most senior individual contributor on the design team. You set the vision and the craft bar for our most complex, highest-leverage product surfaces, and you raise the ceiling for what design at PermitFlow can be. This is a hands-on role: you'll go deep on the hardest problems in construction permitting, and your influence felt in the quality of the product and in the impact of the designers around you. Permitting is a workflow-dense, high-stakes, historically manual industry, and we are rebuilding that industry as an intelligent product. You will define how automation and AI show up in moonshots & strategic big-bet experiences. In our core product offerings, you'll ensure our users understand what the product is doing, trust its output, and stay in control of decisions that carry real financial and regulatory weight.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own the design vision for our highest-impact product areas, from framing the problem through pixel-perfect execution.
• Set the strategic direction for how permitting workflows, automation, and AI-assisted decisions are designed, ensuring users can read, trust, and guide the product's output.
• Partner with the Head of Design, product, and engineering leadership to shape the roadmap, not just execute against it, bringing a strong and well-reasoned point of view on where the product should go