Sr Product Designer

Overview

Kantata is building modern software for the professional services industry. We're hiring a Senior Product Designer to craft end-to-end design for high-impact areas of our platform. Your work will impact every end user of Kantata.

Role

Own end-to-end design (problem framing → shipped experience)
Partner with PM to define problems, shape solutions, and sequence work
Work with Engineering to deliver scalable, well-executed solutions
Improve coherence across interaction design, IA, and system behavior
Meaningful ownership and influence on product direction.

What You'll Do

• Ship net-new AI-driven workflows and improve core product flows
• Improve structure, navigation, and overall coherence
• Drive consistency across interaction patterns and system behavior
• Contribute to our design system in partnership with engineering
• Collaborate with PM to define problems, shape solutions, and sequence work
• Work with Engineering to deliver scalable, well-executed solutions
• Align with Content Design on clarity and terminology
• Mentor other product designers
• Operate with high autonomy and initiative
• Form strong opinions through research, discovery, and iteration
• Clearly articulate design tradeoffs
• Design beyond screens—flows, structure, and behavior
• Move efficiently while maintaining clarity and quality

Core Capabilities

• Systems Thinking (Essential)
• Identify patterns, abstractions, reusable structures
• Understand system-level impact of local decisions
• Design for scale, consistency, extensibility
• Interaction Design
• Strong command of flows, states, edge cases
• Clear user intent and system response
• Experience with complex, multi-step workflows
• Information Architecture
• Structure complex domains into clear models
• Improve navigation, hierarchy, conceptual clarity
• Product Thinking
• Frame problems before solving
• Navigate tradeoffs across user, business, and technical constraints
• Communication
• Clear articulation of decisions and tradeoffs
• Able to influence and align
• Comfortable across disciplines
• Experience & Tools
• Experience with B2B SaaS (preferred)
• Experience with complex, data-rich or platform products (preferred)
• Experience evolving established, production-scale systems
• Experience using and contributing to a design system
• Familiarity with modern frontend concepts (React, components)
• Understands AI system behavior (deterministic vs probabilistic behavior, user control)
• Actively leverages AI tools to inform and accelerate design work
• Open to working closer to implementation as design and frontend roles converge