Founding Product Designer — Enterprise SaaS UX Lead

C10labs; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 55,000 - 69,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership on product direction

Direct collaboration with founders

Opportunity to define design language

Significant visibility across the team

Job summary

Buckstop Industries in Washington, DC is seeking a Founding Product Designer to shape the user experience, workflows, and visual direction of our enterprise platform. This is not a role that merely executes mockups; you will evaluate what’s built, understand business needs, and present thoughtful design solutions in close collaboration with the founders, engineers, and customers.

You’ll design end-to-end journeys, build scalable design systems in Figma, and help define design principles while

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Product Design, UI/UX Design, or User Experience roles.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design work.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma.
• Experience creating wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and design systems.
• Strong understanding of UX principles, information architecture, and interaction design.
• Experience collaborating directly with engineering teams.
• Ability to clearly communicate design decisions and rationale.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate existing product experiences and identify usability improvements.
• Translate business requirements into intuitive user workflows.
• Create multiple design concepts and recommendations for key product initiatives.
• Partner with founders to shape product direction and user experience strategy.
• Help define design principles and standards across the platform.
• Design end-to-end user journeys and workflows.
• Create wireframes, user flows, mockups, and interactive prototypes.
• Conduct usability reviews and recommend improvements.
• Simplify complex operational and analytical workflows into intuitive experiences.
• Design for enterprise users in logistics, asset management, and sustainability environments.
• Create and maintain scalable design systems in Figma.
• Establish reusable components and interaction patterns.
• Ensure consistency across product experiences.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure designs can be implemented.
• Participate in product roadmap and feature planning discussions.

Tools

Figma

Job description

Buckstop Industries in Washington, DC is seeking a Founding Product Designer to shape the user experience, workflows, and visual direction of our enterprise platform. This is not a role that merely executes mockups; you will evaluate what’s built, understand business needs, and present thoughtful design solutions in close collaboration with the founders, engineers, and customers.

You’ll design end-to-end journeys, build scalable design systems in Figma, and help define design principles while