Product Designer

Paperless Parts; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits package including health

Parental leave

Stock options

Open vacation policy

Job summary

Paperless Parts is seeking a Product Designer to evolve our AI-enabled SaaS platform for manufacturing. You will translate ambiguous customer problems into intuitive, production-ready solutions in close collaboration with engineering, product, and marketing teams.

You will work on user discovery, design systems, and front-end prototyping to validate ideas with customers and guide engineering direction, while contributing to marketing visuals and content design.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in Product Design, Design Engineering, or Design Technology roles.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating shipped work, systems thinking, and technical depth.
• Curious, driven problem-solver.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills.
• Comfort with modern front-end frameworks (React, design systems, prototyping in code).
• Experience with design systems and component libraries.

Responsibilities

• Lead design execution across key areas of the product by triangulating customer workflows, technical capabilities, and product strategy into intuitive, production-ready experiences.
• Prototype at multiple levels, from high-fidelity mockups to real front-end implementations for validation with customers and guiding engineering.
• Strengthen collaboration between Design and Engineering to improve speed, quality, and shared understanding.
• Design with intention for AI and data-driven features and balance power, clarity, and trust.
• Participate in user discovery with Product to learn from job shops, manufacturers, and buyers.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Customer teams to deliver high-quality work and ensure customer success.
• Partner with Marketing on content design for blog, website, case studies, events, emails, and socials.

Skills

4+ years experience

Portfolio

Curious

Communication

React & front-end

Design systems

SaaS

AI/data-driven workflows

Marketing designs

Manufacturing domain (nice)

Tools

React

Design systems

Job description

Paperless Parts is a SaaS startup helping manufacturers quote faster and win more work. From rockets to medical devices, we power the parts that move the world forward.

This position requires activities that are subject to US Export Control Laws and require US Citizenship or Green Card Holder.

Paperless Parts is the #1 quoting & estimating software purpose-built for the manufacturing industry. We are on a mission to transform the manufacturing industry, one interaction at a time. We celebrate each other's victories in and outside of work, respect each other as individuals and professionals, and value ideas over hierarchy. Paperless Parts promotes a culture of continuous learning, by always seeking ways to better ourselves, our team, and our customers.

As a Product Designer, you will play a key role in the evolution of Paperless Parts, helping us build innovative new products as we aspire to build the best technology platform in manufacturing. You can think in systems, prototype in real code, and partner deeply with engineering, product, and marketing to translate ambiguous customer problems into intuitive, production-ready solutions.

What You\'ll Do

• Lead design execution across key areas of the product by triangulating customer workflows, technical capabilities, and product strategy into intuitive, production-ready experiences.
• Prototype at multiple levels, from high-fidelity mockups to real front-end implementations that enable validation with customers and inform engineering direction.
• Strengthen collaboration between Design and Engineering by acting as a partner who improves speed, quality, and shared understanding throughout the build process.
• Design with intention for AI and data-driven features: partner with Product and Engineering to evolve how automation, intelligence, and insights appear within the product, balancing power, clarity, and trust.
• Participate in user discovery along with Product to learn directly from job shops, manufacturers, and buyers to ensure both new and existing solutions solve real workflow challenges.
• Collaborate and work closely with Product, Engineering, and Customer teams to deliver high quality work, ensuring customers are successful in solving problems around the delivered features.
• Partner with Marketing on content marketing design: create graphics, illustrations, and visual assets for blog posts, website, case studies, tradeshow events, email campaigns, and social content.

What We\'re Looking For

• 4+ years\' experience in Product Design, Design Engineering, or Design Technology roles
• A strong portfolio demonstrating shipped work, systems thinking, and technical depth
• Curious, driven problem-solver
• Strong communication and facilitation skills
• Comfort working in or alongside modern front-end frameworks (React, design systems, prototyping in code, etc.)
• Proven experience in one or more of the following:
• Understanding of modern application architectures
• B2B or B2C SaaS with a metrics-driven methodology
• Design systems and component libraries
• Content, brand, or event/tradeshow design
• Experience designing user-facing AI or data-driven workflows (LLMs, automation, or intelligent assistance) is a plus; deep ML expertise is not required
• Experience designing for marketing surfaces (web, brand, and campaign design) preferred but not required
• Manufacturing industry experience preferred but not required

Who We Are

Paperless Parts emphasizes focused work, continuous improvement and strong relationships with colleagues and customers. Our three core values that are the foundation of our company culture, which every employee embodies:

• "We are intentional" - Highlights the importance of being committed, focused, and deliberate in our work, emphasizing planning, clear ownership, prioritization, and continuous refinement to ensure the best possible outcomes.
• "We are persistent" - Underscores our dedication to continuous improvement and growth, both individually and as a team, with a focus on grit and determination to achieve impactful results.
• "We are a team" - Emphasizes the importance of relationships, both internally and with customers, highlighting the need to listen, learn, empathize, and take action to create the best possible experience and solutions.

What We Offer

Our employees enjoy benefits that make them more productive and contribute directly to the development of their professional skills. We want to be able to attract the best of the best and make sure they keep getting better. On top of an exciting, supportive and intellectually challenging workplace, we are offering:

• A fun, lively startup culture
• Core values-based leadership
• A culture of employee engagement, diversity and inclusion
• Full benefits package including parental leave, and medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• Open vacation policy - we all work hard and take time for ourselves when we need it
• Competitive salary and generous stock options - we all get to own a piece of what we're building
• Ample opportunities to learn and take on new responsibilities in a fast-paced, growth-mode startup

Salary range: $110,000 - $150,000