Product Designer, Dashboard

Plotwell Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Plotwell Inc. is seeking a seasoned product designer to own the dashboard experience, including the upload flow and the read-from-file-to-understanding pathway. You will craft a cohesive chart system so every visualization feels like part of a single product.

You will maintain a disciplined visual language—hairlines, spacing, one indigo, one teal, amber only for outliers—and participate in customer calls to ensure the product matches real user needs.

Qualifications

• Five+ years designing software used to help people decide or act.
• A portfolio with at least one dense, data-heavy screen you are proud of.
• You build prototypes yourself, in code or close to it.
• You have opinions on charts and typography and can defend them.

Responsibilities

• Own the dashboard, the upload flow and the read-from-file-to-understanding path.
• Design the chart system so every type looks like it belongs to one product.
• Keep the visual system honest: hairlines, spacing, one indigo, one teal, amber only for outliers.
• Participate in customer calls; the watcher should be the designer who builds it.

Skills

UI design

Data visualization

Prototyping

Typography

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Framer

D3.js

Job description

Someone uploads a messy sales export and needs to understand it in seconds, on a laptop and on a phone, without a legend or a tutorial.

That is a genuinely hard design problem: charts chosen by a model, a takeaways panel, outlier flags, and a data table, all legible and calm rather than a wall of widgets.

What you would own

• Own the dashboard, the upload flow and the read from file to understanding.
• Design the chart system so every type looks like it belongs to one product.
• Keep the visual system honest: hairlines and space, one indigo, one teal, amber only for an outlier.
• Sit in on customer calls. The person who watches someone use this should be the person who designs it.

What we are looking for

• Five or more years designing software people use to make a decision, not to browse.
• A portfolio with at least one dense, data-heavy screen you are proud of.
• You build your own prototypes, in code or close to it.
• You have a view about charts and typography and can defend it.

How hiring runs

A thirty minute call with a founder, then a paid work session on a real problem from our backlog, three to four hours, then conversations with two people you would work alongside. Four steps, usually inside two weeks, and we tell you where you stand at every one.