Senior/Staff Product Designer, AI

FloQast; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 164,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Vacation

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Family Forming Benefits

Life & Disability Insurance

Job summary

A leading accounting transformation platform in Austin is seeking a Staff Product Designer to shape and drive the design strategy for AI-powered products. You will play a pivotal role in enhancing user experiences and setting quality standards across the platform while mentoring design teams. Ideal candidates possess over 7 years of experience in enterprise product design, showcasing a strong portfolio, and skills in design tools like Figma. This role offers competitive compensation, with a focus on collaboration and innovation in design.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience designing and shipping high-quality, complex SaaS products.
• Proven leadership in creating and shipping new platform components.
• Mastery of design and prototyping tools, especially Figma.
• Experience in designing intelligent, AI-driven experiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver AI capabilities across the product suite.
• Lead long-term design vision and strategy.
• Set the bar for design quality across the platform.
• Design and lead high-impact research initiatives.

Skills

Professional experience in enterprise product design

Exceptional strategic thinking

Interaction design

Visual polish

Ability to lead complex projects

Mastery of design tools (e.g., Figma)

Fluency in AI-powered tools

Organizational influencing skills

Education

7+ years of experience designing SaaS products

Tools

Figma

Job description

FloQast is at the forefront of the accounting industry, providing an AI-powered Accounting Transformation Platform founded by accountants, for accountants. Trusted by over 3,000 organizations worldwide such as Snowflake, Twilio, Zoom, Instacart, and The Golden State Warriors, we serve customers from fast-growing startups to global enterprises. By leveraging our groundbreaking AI Agents and purpose-built workflows, we empower teams to streamline their financial close, enhance compliance, and achieve a new level of transparency and accuracy. FloQast is more than a SaaS company, it’s a movement to transform the accounting profession.

At FloQast, design is a driving force behind our AI-powered Accounting Transformation Platform and we’re building a world‑class design organization to support our next chapter of hyper‑growth! Our vision is to create human‑centered tools that act as intelligent partners that automate repetitive work, detect anomalies, and surface insights in real time to help accounting teams operate with clarity and precision. Product design shapes: 1) How complex data becomes intuitive 2) How AI becomes a trusted partner, and 3) How everyone from the accountant to the CFO feels empowered. This role is for a design leader who will serve as the principal authority on our design system and platform‑level experiences, driving quality, consistency, and velocity across all FloQast products. Come join us!

This role has a requirement of working in office 3 days per week, which may be subject to change based on team and business needs, as determined by the department leader. Please note that this requirement is subject to ongoing review and may be adjusted in the future.

• Visa sponsorship is not available at this time

What You’ll Do

• As a Staff Product Designer, you will be a principal force in defining the future trajectory of the FloQast platform, focusing on high‑leverage problems across multiple teams or product areas. You will define and deliver the next generation of seamlessly embedded AI capabilities across the product suite.
• Define and Drive Design Strategy: Lead the long‑term design vision and strategy for major, cross‑functional product domains (not just features) within the FloQast platform, ensuring alignment with company objectives and driving significant business impact.
• Design for Transformative AI: Act as the principal designer translating complex AI capabilities and enterprise requirements into intuitive, high‑trust, and scalable experiences that remove adoption barriers and deliver groundbreaking value to accounting teams.
• Architect Design Vision and Roadmap: Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering Leadership to define the product roadmap and architecture, contributing a deep, user‑centered perspective that proactively identifies and scopes opportunities for platform‑level improvements.
• Elevate Quality and Consistency at Scale: Set the bar for design quality across the entire platform. Guide the evolution of the design system, establishing standards and patterns that ensure consistency, usability, and technical feasibility across multiple design teams.
• Champion Strategic User Empathy: Design and lead high‑impact research initiatives that deepen the organization’s understanding of our users’ unmet needs, leveraging both qualitative and quantitative data to inform high‑level strategic product decisions.
• Lead Complex Execution and Mentorship: Own execution on the most complex, ambiguous projects, driving them to completion. Mentor and coach other designers on the team in strategy, execution, technical feasibility, and cross‑functional leadership, fostering a culture of excellence.
• Influence the Organization: Proactively influence stakeholders across the organization, effectively communicating complex design problems, rationale, and solutions to executive leadership and large cross‑functional teams.

What You’ll Bring

• You possess a deep professional history in enterprise product design. This experience includes 7+ years of professional experience designing and shipping high‑quality, complex SaaS or enterprise products at scale, with a significant track record of delivering organizational impact.
• You maintain a world‑class portfolio that demonstrates exceptional capability. Your portfolio showcases exceptional strategic thinking, interaction design, and visual polish, particularly demonstrating work on large‑scale data applications, complex workflows, or platform‑level tooling.
• You are a proven leader in creating and shipping new platform components. You have proven experience successfully leading and shipping product initiatives from 0‑1 that became core components of the platform, demonstrating exceptional ability to navigate ambiguity.
• You demonstrate mastery of core design tools and influence design systems. This includes mastery of design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma) and deep experience contributing to robust design systems used by multiple teams.
• You are fluent in accelerating design through modern, intelligent tools. You leverage advanced proficiency in AI‑powered tools (e.g., Figma Make, ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude, etc.) to accelerate knowledge, quality, collaboration, and delivery, with evidence of active toolset experimentation and evolution.
• You possess expert knowledge in designing intelligent, AI‑driven experiences. This specialized knowledge includes establishing appropriate user controls, building trust, translating complex models into clear user value, and addressing ethical implications.
• You have exceptional strategic collaboration and organizational influencing skills. You have a proven ability to articulate and defend design rationale to executive leadership across product, design, and engineering.
• You lead and inform organizational strategy through rigorous research. You can design and lead research efforts that inform major strategic product decisions and pivots.

Why You’ll Love Working With Us

• FloQast Product Design is a place where curious, thoughtful people come together to solve meaningful problems and grow through their work. You’ll have the freedom to explore ideas, take ownership, and create real impact with the support of teammates and managers who genuinely want you to succeed. We’re a collaborative team that values openness and initiative. Here, you can be scrappy, think boldly, and know that your voice truly matters.

About FloQast

FloQast is the leading Accounting Transformation Platform in accounting workflow automation created by actual former accountants for accountants. By streamlining and modernizing daily accounting tasks, FloQast helps teams collaborate more effectively and complete their work with greater efficiency and precision. This cloud‑based, AI‑powered software is trusted by over 3,000 accounting teams, including those at Snowflake, Twilio, Instacart, and The Golden State Warriors—and continues to grow. Our mission is to continuously elevate the accounting profession, enhancing both its practice and perception.

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The base pay range for this position is $164,000‑$246,000. Compensation is not limited to base salary. FloQast values our Total Rewards, and offers a competitive and elaborate Benefits Package including, but not limited to, Medical, Dental, Vision, Family Forming benefits, Life & Disability Insurance, and Unlimited Vacation. FloQast reserves the right to amend, change, alter, and revise pay ranges and benefits offerings at any time. All applicants acknowledge that by applying to this position you understand that this specific pay range is contingent upon meeting the qualifications and requirements of the role, and for the successful completion of the interview selection and process. It is at the Company’s discretion to determine what pay is provided to a candidate within the range associated with the role.

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