Senior Product Designer

Copia Automation; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Copia Automation is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our team in New York City. You will collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to design solutions for complex challenges, owning your process within a hybrid work environment.

The ideal candidate has 5-8 years of Product Design experience and is comfortable navigating ambiguity. As part of this role, you’ll engage with cross-functional teams and present your designs at various company levels. Opportunities to work with emerging technologies like AI tooling make this a dynamic position.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of hands-on Product Design experience.
• Ability to work in a startup environment, adaptable and execution-driven.
• Experience in translating complex conversations into clear problems to solve.

Responsibilities

• Define problem statements and target user archetypes.
• Leverage industry standard software to explore solutions.
• Collaborate with other designers, engineers and product team members.

Skills

Product Design experience

Collaboration with cross-functional teams

Problem-solving in ambiguous situations

Figma or Claude software proficiency

Tools

Figma

Claude

Job description

About the Role

We’re seeking a Senior Product Designer to join us as our product teams expand. As part of our design team, you’ll be working across the product space and with stakeholders from Product Management and Engineering to help define and design solutions for complex and technical problems. You will be the owner of your process, with the autonomy to define how you solve in pursuit of outcomes. This is a high‑agency position.

Location: Hybrid out of our New York City HQ.

Who you are

• You have 5‑8 years of hands‑on Product Design experience.
• You thrive in a startup environment and are resourceful, adaptable, and execution‑driven.
• You have a knack for taking complex conversations and translating them into clear problems to solve.
• You have experience or excitement about all areas of the design process from discovery to delivery.
• You are comfortable working with ambiguity.
• You are eager to collaborate cross‑functionally with product, engineering, customer success and other teams in the organization.
• Your low ego makes you receptive to feedback and agile in adjusting plans.

Design challenges you’ll tackle

• Bringing highly complex workflow to a new industry.
• Creating solutions that work for users at very different levels of technical experience.
• Balancing solution breadth with deliverability and velocity.
• Designing through ambiguity with a focus on problem alignment.

Your day‑to‑day

• Defining problem statements and target user archetypes.
• Leveraging industry standard software, like Figma or Claude, to explore solutions.
• Collaborating with other designers, engineers and product team members.
• Presenting your work on small and large stages within the company.
• Gathering feedback from internal SMEs and external users to inform design decisions.
• Building on internal design practices to improve the end‑to‑end process.

Nice to haves

• Experience working in data‑dense, technical products.
• Background in industrial automation, manufacturing systems, or OT/IT convergence.
• You’ve experimented with emerging technologies like AI tooling.
• Familiarity with Git workflows, code review practices, and DevOps culture.