Founding Product Designer for GovTech Platform

GovWell; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Equity / stock options

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) program

Flexible PTO

Job summary

An innovative tech startup in New York City seeks a Founding Product Designer to enhance product usability and coherence as they scale. This role will involve defining interaction patterns and workflows to create a consistent user experience across the platform. The ideal candidate should possess over 5 years in SaaS product design and strong systems-level understanding, preferably with a background in public-sector technology. Competitive compensation and equity options are included along with flexible PTO in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing complex, workflow-heavy SaaS products.
• Experience in defining reusable interaction patterns and design systems.
• Strong ability to validate workflows with modern AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Define shared interaction patterns, terminology and design systems.
• Prototype and iterate using AI-native tools.
• Support incubation work for AI products.
• Design core government workflows end-to-end.
• Embed with engineers to shape and direct design.

Skills

Complex SaaS product design

End-to-end workflow ownership

Systems-level design

AI-native design workflows

Public-sector workflows

Tools

Lovable

Figma

Cursor

Job description

An innovative tech startup in New York City seeks a Founding Product Designer to enhance product usability and coherence as they scale. This role will involve defining interaction patterns and workflows to create a consistent user experience across the platform. The ideal candidate should possess over 5 years in SaaS product design and strong systems-level understanding, preferably with a background in public-sector technology. Competitive compensation and equity options are included along with flexible PTO in a hybrid work environment.