Senior Product Designer

Nicely Co.; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Nicely Co. is seeking a Senior Product Designer to strengthen accessible research-led experiences, interaction quality, visual systems, prototyping, and design collaboration. You will turn company priorities into clear, dependable work while partnering with colleagues across functions.

As an early-stage company, this role helps create processes and internal systems, not a pre-existing mature playbook. You will communicate tradeoffs, exercise sound judgment, and operate with autonomy.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering accessible, research-led design across products.
• Ability to translate priorities into documented plans and measurable outcomes.
• Strong written and verbal communication with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to organize ambiguous work and document decisions.
• Experience building systems in early-stage environments.
• Commitment to ethics, confidentiality, security, accessibility, and inclusive collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day work across accessible research-led experiences, interaction quality, visual systems, prototyping, and design collaboration.
• Translate the priorities of the Senior Product Designer role into documented plans, decisions, and measurable outcomes.
• Build lightweight, repeatable processes that fit an early-stage company and can mature over time.
• Collaborate across functions to resolve dependencies and deliver complete outcomes.
• Identify risks early, recommend proportionate solutions, and escalate consequential decisions.
• Maintain accurate documentation and handle company, customer, and employee information responsibly.
• Use relevant evidence and feedback to improve quality, efficiency, and stakeholder experience.
• Communicate progress, constraints, priorities, and results clearly to affected teammates.

Skills

Accessible research-led design

Interaction quality

Visual systems

Prototyping

Design collaboration

Ownership & judgment

Communication

Job description

Help build Nicely Co.'s accessible research-led experiences, interaction quality, visual systems, prototyping, and design collaboration as Senior Product Designer, with meaningful ownership in an early-stage company.

Position overview

Nicely Co. is seeking a Senior Product Designer to strengthen accessible research-led experiences, interaction quality, visual systems, prototyping, and design collaboration. This role will turn company priorities into clear, dependable work while partnering directly with colleagues across functions.Nicely Co. is an early-stage company, so this position will help create the processes and internal systems behind the work, not merely inherit a mature playbook. The successful candidate will use sound judgment, communicate tradeoffs, and operate with appropriate autonomy.Responsibilities may evolve as the company grows. This is an opportunity to influence how the Design function develops, establish useful standards, and leave behind systems that scale responsibly.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day work across accessible research-led experiences, interaction quality, visual systems, prototyping, and design collaboration.
• Translate the priorities of the Senior Product Designer role into documented plans, decisions, and measurable outcomes.
• Build lightweight, repeatable processes that fit an early-stage company and can mature over time.
• Collaborate across functions to resolve dependencies and deliver complete outcomes.
• Identify risks early, recommend proportionate solutions, and escalate consequential decisions.
• Maintain accurate documentation and handle company, customer, and employee information responsibly.
• Use relevant evidence and feedback to improve quality, efficiency, and stakeholder experience.
• Communicate progress, constraints, priorities, and results clearly to affected teammates.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated capability relevant to accessible research-led experiences, interaction quality, visual systems, prototyping, and design collaboration.
• Judgment and ownership appropriate for the Senior Product Designer scope.
• Strong written and verbal communication with both specialists and cross-functional partners.
• Ability to organize ambiguous work, make progress independently, and document decisions.
• Comfort building systems in an early-stage environment where priorities may evolve.
• Commitment to ethical conduct, confidentiality, security, accessibility, and inclusive collaboration.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with modern methods and tools used in Design.
• Experience in a startup, small business, or other resource-conscious environment.
• Evidence of improving a workflow, standard, product, service, or measurable outcome.
• Relevant education, certification, portfolio, or equivalent practical experience.
• Flexible work arrangements where applicable.
• Opportunity to help build an early-stage company.
• Direct impact on company growth and operating quality.
• Cross-functional collaboration and professional development opportunities.
• Significant ownership over assigned responsibilities.
• Opportunity for responsibilities to expand as the company grows.