Product Designer

diracinc; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Dirac is building the creative suite for manufacturing engineering. You will own projects from pencil to release, working across user research, product strategy, prototyping, interaction design, visual design, and frontend development.

You\'ll shape both structure and surface elements to deliver coherent tools for technical users. Join a small team that values autonomy, quality, feedback, and a bias toward action as Build OS grows, and contribute to the design language and system while

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design experience in complex B2B/technical software.
• Strong ability to design large information-dense interfaces and workflows.
• Experience owning end-to-end product design from research to release.
• Ability to communicate decisions clearly across Product and Engineering.
• Curiosity about how physical things get made; manufacturing familiarity a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own projects from pencil to release across research, strategy, prototyping, interaction and frontend design.
• Define patterns, primitives and interactions for complex workflows.
• Understand user needs and existing tools, and design faster, more trustworthy replacements.
• Familiarize with manufacturing workflows including BOMs, work instructions, and takt time.
• Collaborate with manufacturing engineers, operators, and customers on-site.
• Help establish Dirac's design language, design system and product standards as Build OS grows.
• Partner with Product and Engineering from exploration through release.
• Contribute to frontend code, prototyping and product polish.

Skills

Product design

Complex systems

Interaction design

Visual design

End-to-end ownership

User research

Communication

Prototyping

Tools

React

TypeScript

HTML

CSS

Job description

About the Company

Dirac is building the creative suite for manufacturing engineering. Manufacturing engineering has been underserved by fractured tooling. The work of defining how a product gets built is spread across process plans, MBOMs, routings, work instructions, spreadsheets, PLM configurations, ERP tables, and internal tools. Each artifact represents only part of the process, forcing engineers to rebuild context whenever a design changes.

BuildOS brings these workflows together in one environment. Manufacturing engineers author, version, review, and distribute the Build-the canonical definition of how a product is produced.

About The Company

Dirac is building the creative suite for manufacturing engineering. Manufacturing engineering has been underserved by fractured tooling. The work of defining how a product gets built is spread across process plans, MBOMs, routings, work instructions, spreadsheets, PLM configurations, ERP tables, and internal tools. Each artifact represents only part of the process, forcing engineers to rebuild context whenever a design changes.

BuildOS brings these workflows together in one environment. Manufacturing engineers author, version, review, and distribute the Build-the canonical definition of how a product is produced. Figma owns the design file, GitHub owns the repo, Dirac owns the Build. We're looking for an early Product Designer to define how that suite works and feels. You'll build serious tools for technical users in a domain where great design can fundamentally change how someone works. We're a small team that values autonomy, quality, feedback, and a bias toward action.

About The Role

You will own projects from pencil to release, working across user research, product strategy, prototyping, interaction design, visual design, and frontend development. You'll shape both Structure-flows, information architecture, and wireframes-and Surface-layout, typography, color, and interaction polish.

Responsibilities

• Design across BuildOS, including 3D CAD interaction, structured data authoring, document generation, and shop floor workflows.
• Define the patterns, primitives, and interactions that make complex workflows feel like one coherent product.
• Understand the spreadsheets, internal tools, and manual processes users rely on today, then design replacements that are faster, more complete, and more trustworthy.
• Become fluent in manufacturing workflows, including BOMs, BOPs, work instructions, GD&T, PMI, revision control, work centers, and takt time.
• Work directly with manufacturing engineers, operators, and customers, including spending time on factory floors.
• Help establish Dirac's design language, design system, and product standards as Build OS grows.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering from early exploration through implementation and release.
• Contribute beyond traditional product design through user research, prototyping, frontend development, and product polish.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product design experience, ideally designing complex B2B, technical, or professional software.
• High technical acumen and experience designing complex systems, workflows, and information-heavy interfaces.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills, from early concepts and prototypes through polished production-ready designs.
• Experience owning projects end-to-end, including research, problem definition, design, implementation, and release.
• Strong product judgment and the ability to balance user needs, technical constraints, business priorities, and speed.
• High attention to detail and a strong bar for craft, usability, and visual quality.
• Ability to self-direct, prioritize independently, and thrive in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
• Experience using qualitative and quantitative insights to inform design decisions.
• Familiarity with user research, usability testing, and prototyping.
• Ability to clearly communicate design decisions and rationale across Product and Engineering.
• A bias toward shipping and iteration over perfection.
• Curiosity about how physical things get made. Manufacturing experience is not required, but you should want to build that expertise.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing CAD, PLM, EDA, developer tools, data tools, industrial software, or other professional-grade applications.
• Experience designing complex data models, tables, hierarchical information, timelines, graphs, or 3D/spatial interfaces.
• Experience building or maintaining a design system.
• Ability to contribute frontend code, particularly with React, TypeScript, HTML, or CSS.
• Experience designing zero-to-one products or working at an early-stage startup.
• Experience conducting research with specialized technical users.
• Exposure to manufacturing, mechanical engineering, robotics, aerospace, automotive, industrial engineering, or hardware development.

Why This Role

CAD and PLM describe what a product is. ERP and MES record that production happened. Neither describ