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We are looking for a highly technical Product Designer to take ownership of our user experience, eliminate design bottlenecks, and build AI-native, code-ready design processes.\n\n### What Youll Do\n- **Build an AI-Native Design System:** Build a scalable, React-based component-driven design system that engineers can and will use by default.\n- **Empower Engineering:** Proactively educate the engineering team by showing them how to leverage the design system to make good, independent UI/UX choices.\n- **Introduce and lead rapid prototyping techniques,** to quickly gather feedback on early feature ideas before heavy engineering begins.\n- **Help review meaningful frontend changes** for design concerns.\n- **Own the Design Process:** Establish a new, scalable design process that matches our fast pace and takes design out of the bottleneck.\n- **Position product design as a proactive product owner** that iterates on the platform without requiring direct hand-holding.\n- **Establish tight feedback loops** with customer strategists and end-users to inform product direction and usability improvements.\n\n### Qualifications\n- 3–5+ years of experience designing complex digital products, with a portfolio showing real shipped work, clear problem framing, and strong visual craft.\n- **Design & Technical Hybrid:** You have a strong grasp of user experience principles and some frontend skills, specifically in React. 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