Senior Product Designer

About the Role

Product design has lived with the founders and the Head of Product so far. You'd be our first dedicated Product Designer: a senior generalist who can own the experience across our products today and grow into the company's design leader over the next 12 to 18 months . You'll set how Labrynth designs and builds, not inherit it.

This is a builder's seat, not a screen-production seat. If your favorite part of the job is standing up a working prototype and watching a real user move through it, you'll feel at home.

What You'll Do

• Drive the experience for a vertical or platform surface end to end, from discovery through build-ready prototype, and tie your work to adoption, retention, and reusable patterns, not bespoke one-offs.
• Frame ambiguous experience problems across a vertical (a new Authority Having Jurisdiction, a new rules domain). Decide what's worth solving, then set the design direction and interaction standards.
• Build usable prototypes that de-risk the hardest flows before engineering invests, and hand off specs and components engineering can build from with minimal rework.
• Hold the bar on accessibility and brand at the system level. WCAG 2.2 AA and our visual language are table stakes, not stretch goals.
• Raise the craft: review others' work, coach as we hire, and help interview the next designers.

What We're Looking For

• Senior-level product design scope : you've owned significant surfaces end to end and can show the outcomes, not just the screens.
• You build: a track record of usable prototypes in code or AI tools ( HTML/Tailwind/shadcn, Lovable, v0, Cursor ), and specs or components engineers built from.
• Design-systems depth : tokens, components, patterns; ideally design-system-as-code.
• You think in components and work hand-in-hand with front-end engineers: comfortable in a component-driven stack ( shadcn/Radix/Tailwind ) and pairing on the build, not throwing designs over the wall.
• Experienced in conducting remote User Research sessions and translating behaviors into delightful experiences.
• Comfort with complex, dense, regulated or enterprise B2B workflows and genuine ambiguity.
• Discovery and usability testing as a habit. Evidence over opinion.
• Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA) and strong brand and visual fluency.
• AI-native fluency and the instinct to orchestrate AI tooling, not avoid it.
• Excellent written and spoken communication; you can frame a problem and a direction for a room.

Nice to Have

• Regulatory, govtech, legal, insurance, or compliance domain experience.
• Forward-deployed, embedded, or customer-facing design experience.
• Hands-on React and Tailwind , enough to push components and prototypes toward production.
• Motion and interaction design.
• Comfort collaborating across US and Australia time zones .

What We Offer

• High-impact work at the intersection of AI and critical infrastructure regulation.
• Direct customer exposure and a seat at the table when we decide what to build.
• Small team with outsized influence; your field learning shapes the product roadmap.
• Remote-first.
• Competitive compensation.