Product Designer — AI-Driven Compliance Platform

Kobalt Labs co; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Kobalt Labs is seeking a Product Designer to define the next generation of its product and brand, shaping complex workflows and establishing a scalable design system. You will collaborate with the CTO and engineering to design new products and rethink existing ones, while owning the website's design and implementation.

This hands-on role emphasizes how the system works and how it looks, with a focus on creating intuitive interfaces that scale with growth across risk and compliance workflows.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing and shipping software products, ideally complex B2B or enterprise applications.
• Exceptional systems thinking across information architecture, interaction patterns, states, and reusable primitives.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating both visual craft and thoughtful interaction design.
• Experience building or contributing to a design system across a growing product.
• Comfortable working directly in code and using modern AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Design complex product workflows from first principles, working closely with engineering from early concepts through shipped product.
• Establish the design system for Kobalt’s platform, including reusable components and patterns for common product surfaces.
• Own Kobalt’s website end-to-end, from visual direction and information architecture through implementation and iteration.
• Evolve Kobalt’s visual identity across the product and website as we enter our next stage of growth.
• Spend time with customers and our team to understand how people actually work, then turn messy workflows into simple, thoughtful interfaces.

Skills

UI/UX Design

Design systems

Systems thinking

Portfolio

Cross-functional

Code familiarity

Job description

Kobalt Labs is seeking a Product Designer to define the next generation of its product and brand, shaping complex workflows and establishing a scalable design system. You will collaborate with the CTO and engineering to design new products and rethink existing ones, while owning the website's design and implementation.

This hands-on role emphasizes how the system works and how it looks, with a focus on creating intuitive interfaces that scale with growth across risk and compliance workflows.