Senior Product Designer

RiverPark Ventures; Somerville (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

CYVL is a Physical AI company building for real-world infrastructure in the Boston area. You will be the sole product designer, shaping how customers interact with sensors, the platform, and field workflows.

Reporting to the VP of Product, you’ll collaborate with PMs and engineers in fast cycles to ship usable, scalable interfaces used by public works teams. As the team grows, you’ll lead the design function, own the design system, and push for a seamless experience from sensor to screen.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing B2B enterprise software in a high-growth startup.
• Experience with real-time data and complex workflows.
• Customer-focused design with field-based validation.
• Strong portfolio showing messy systems made usable.
• Fluency with data and AI concepts and ML basics.

Responsibilities

• Run discovery with public works teams to learn tasks and blockers.
• Build pitches with product and engineering and ship to production, often in code.
• Turn LiDAR, imagery, and condition data into fast, clear interfaces.
• Dig into product analytics to identify friction and prioritize fixes.
• Own the design system and platform look-and-feel with hardware team.

Skills

Product design

B2B software

Real-time systems

Data & AI fluency

UI prototyping

Production coding

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

ABOUT CYVL

The best infrastructure is invisible. You only notice it when it fails. For decades, the people responsible for our roads, bridges, and sidewalks have been asked to manage the physical world with tools that can't see it.

CYVL is the Physical AI company changing that. We help governments build infrastructure faster with hardware, software, and AI — turning street-level capture into living intelligence that 500+ cities and towns across the country use to see what's out there, direct the work, and fix problems before they fail.

We believe in a future where infrastructure keeps up with society. Every street, sidewalk, bridge … everywhere. The proof isn't a dashboard. It's a smoother commute, a safer walk to school, public dollars going where they matter most.

We're a fast-moving team in Boston building for the real world. If you believe technology's highest calling is public good, come build with us.

THE ROLE

You'll be Cyvl's only product designer, and you'll own how customers experience Cyvl, from the sensor on their vehicle to the platform on their screen. Reporting to our VP of Product, you'll work daily with PMs and engineers in pitch-based build cycles. PMs frame the problem; you get in front of public works teams, shape the answer, and ship it. As we grow, you'll build and lead Cyvl's design function. This is pure product design, not marketing or brand: what you ship is what public works crews use to fix real streets.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Run discovery with public works teams to learn what they're trying to get done and where our product gets in their way.

• Build pitches with product and engineering and take them all the way to production, often in the code yourself.

• Turn LiDAR, imagery, and condition data into interfaces a busy public works director gets in seconds. Prototype fast with Claude Code or similar tools.

• Dig into product analytics and customer data to find friction and make the call on what to fix.

• Own the design system and the platform's future look and feel, and help shape the field-capture experience with our hardware team.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Startup experience. 5+ years designing B2B enterprise software, with real time inside a high-growth, VC-backed startup. Have 3+ years plus a background in PM, engineering, or industrial design? Let's talk.

• Customer obsession. You'd rather watch a public works crew in the field than guess in Figma. You turn what you hear into sharp business decisions, and customers trust you in the room.

• You build and ship. You push UX changes to production code yourself, not just hand off files.

• A portfolio that shows you take messy, complex systems and make them feel effortless.

• Fluency in data and AI. Comfortable in a codebase, at home in the analytics, and you understand data models and AI/ML well enough