[Hiring] Product Designer @Karbon

Role Description

We're looking for a Product Designer to lead complex design initiatives and play a critical role in shaping high-quality, customer-centered experiences across Karbon's product.

As an individual contributor, you'll operate with a high degree of autonomy, defining problems, exploring solutions, and delivering well-crafted designs end-to-end. You'll partner deeply with Product and Engineering, influence standards and quality beyond your own work, and help elevate the overall design practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Own Experience end to end:
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to define the problem space.
  • Use LLMs to clarify intent, draft briefs, pressure-test assumptions, and surface edge cases and risks before committing to a direction.
• Prototype to set direction:
  • Use AI-assisted tools to build and iterate on flows and lightweight interfaces quickly.
  • Let AI accelerate the generation while you guide structure, behavior, and craft.
  • Partner with engineers to decide what moves into the product.
• Validate with customers early:
  • Talk directly with customers, run quick tests, and use what you learn to adjust direction.
  • Treat research as a velocity tool, not a gate.
• Refine in Figma:
  • Translate validated concepts into designs with complete state coverage, system alignment, and production readiness.
• Design for the platform:
  • Move complexity under the hood so that experiences feel effortless for customers.
  • Encode design judgement into decisions and principles that our people and tools can follow.
  • Drive our craft forward with patterns, prompts, and an attention to detail that compounds over time.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience in product design, ideally within B2B SaaS or complex product environments.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design thinking, interaction design, visual craft, and problem-solving across complex systems.
• Proven ability to work autonomously on ambiguous problems and drive work forward with clarity and ownership.
• Active use of LLMs in your design workflow, for problem framing, research synthesis, prototyping, or iteration, not just awareness of them.
• Comfort using AI-assisted development tools to build and iterate on concepts, even without writing production code.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with experience partnering closely with Product and Engineering.
• Comfort balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Experience contributing to or working within established design systems.
• Passion for high-quality, customer-centered design and continuous improvement.

Bonus

• Experience designing for vertical SaaS, professional services, or accounting-adjacent products.
• Experience designing AI-enabled product experiences.

Benefits

• Gain global experience across the USA, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Canada, and the Philippines.
• 4 weeks annual leave plus 5 extra "Karbon Days" off a year.
• Flexible working environment.
• Work with (and learn from) an experienced, high-performing team.
• Be part of a fast-growing company that firmly believes in promoting high performers from within.
• A collaborative, team-oriented culture that embraces diversity, invests in development, and provides consistent feedback.
• Generous parental leave.