Sr Product Designer

Senior Product Designer

Overview

Kantata is building modern software for the professional services industry.

We're hiring a Senior Product Designer to craft end-to-end design for high-impact areas of our platform. Your work will impact every end user of Kantata.

You will define core product experiences, introduce AI-driven capabilities into real workflows, and improve how complex systems are structured, understood, and used.

Initial focus areas may include Resource Management and our emerging Agentic Platform.

The Role

• Own end-to-end design (problem framing shipped experience)
• Partner with PM to define problems, shape solutions, and sequence work
• Work with Engineering to deliver scalable, well-executed solutions
• Improve coherence across interaction design, IA, and system behavior

Meaningful ownership and influence on product direction.

What You'll Do

Work & Ownership

• Ship net-new AI-driven workflows and improve core product flows
• Improve structure, navigation, and overall coherence
• Drive consistency across interaction patterns and system behavior
• Contribute to our design system in partnership with engineering

Collaboration

• Partner with PM to define problems, shape solutions, and sequence work
• Work with Engineering to deliver scalable, well-executed solutions
• Align with Content Design on clarity and terminology
• Mentor other product designers

Approach

• Operate with high autonomy and initiative
• Form strong opinions through research, discovery, and iteration
• Clearly articulate design tradeoffs
• Design beyond screens-flows, structure, and behavior
• Move efficiently while maintaining clarity and quality

Core Capabilities

Systems Thinking (Essential)

• Identify patterns, abstractions, reusable structures
• Understand system-level impact of local decisions
• Design for scale, consistency, extensibility

Interaction Design

• Strong command of flows, states, edge cases
• Clear user intent and system response
• Experience with complex, multi-step workflows

Information Architecture

• Structure complex domains into clear models
• Improve navigation, hierarchy, conceptual clarity

Product Thinking

• Frame problems before solving
• Navigate tradeoffs across user, business, and technical constraints

Communication

• Clear articulation of decisions and tradeoffs
• Ability to influence and align
• Comfortable across disciplines

Experience & Tools

• Experience with B2B SaaS (preferred)
• Experience with complex, data-rich or platform products (preferred)
• Experience evolving established, production-scale systems
• Experience using and contributing to a design system
• Familiarity with modern frontend concepts (React, components)
• Understands AI system behavior (deterministic vs probabilistic behavior, user control)
• Actively leverages AI tools to inform and accelerate design work
• Open to working closer to implementation as design and frontend roles converge

Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Communication Skills, Customer/Consumer Behavior, Mentoring, Process Improvement, Product Design, Product Flow, Production Systems, Professional Services, Quality Management, Resource Management, Sales Closing Skills, User Interface Design, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)

About the Company

Kantata Inc