Product Design Lead

PermitFlow • Fulltime • New York, NY, US, United States • 4m ago

About PermitFlow

PermitFlow is TurboTax for construction permitting. We are on a mission to streamline and simplify construction permitting in the United States, unlocking more value in the $1.6 trillion construction market. Our software reduces time to permit, supporting permitting end-to-end including permit research, application preparation, submission, and monitoring.

We’ve raised a $31m Series A led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, Felicis Ventures, Altos Ventures, and the founders and executives from Zillow, PlanGrid, Thumbtack, Bluebeam, Uber, Procore, and more. Our team consists of architects, structural engineers, permitting experts, and workflow software specialists, all of whom have personally experienced the pain of permitting.

We are building a hybrid work culture with team members in office 2-3 days per week in NYC, and we are offering highly competitive market rate salaries.

About the role

Skills: Figma

🚀 About PermitFlow

PermitFlow’s mission is to streamline and simplify construction permitting in the $1.6 trillion United States construction market. Our software reduces time to permit, supporting permitting end-to-end including permit research, application preparation, submission, and monitoring.

Our team consists of architects, structural engineers, permitting experts, and workflow software specialists, all who have personally experienced the pain of permitting.

📌 About the Team

We have a lean but mighty engineering team. We’ve done a lot with a little, but there’s much more work to be done to continue our fast-paced growth and we want you to be a part of that growth. You’ll help us get there by owning end-to-end projects, talking with customers, and ultimately supporting the growth of PermitFlow. Ideally, you’re based in NYC or willing to relocate for hybrid work. We’re currently hybrid in-person 3 days/week in our NYC office.

✋ Who you are?

Rockstar Designer: A designer at heart who loves to create simple-to-use and trustworthy interfaces
Entrepreneur: You love to move fast and solve pervasive and challenging technical problems. Maybe you were a previous founder or early employee at a startup
User Driven: You empathize deeply with our users and the nuances of the construction space and permitting
Learner: You're innately curious and willing to build a deeper understanding of underlying problems
Leader: You're autonomous and self-driven. You have strong opinions, loosely held driven by a commitment to doing the right thing for our users
Team player: Highly communicative, kind, and committed to improving the team and others around you. We treat everyone with respect

✅ What You’ll Do:

You will work with the CTO and engineering team to lead and execute design and strategy of PermitFlow's product experience. We are the leading construction permit application software for builders. Our current team consists of engineers from Uber, Amazon, Stripe, NerdWallet, Harvard, Stanford, and more.

Work closely with our customers, engineering, and the founders to design internal and customer-facing applications
Run user research sessions, usability testing sessions, and product analysis for actionable insight
Plan and design interactive wireframes of new features and visual assets needed to implement those features
Assess existing UX architecture and identify areas for improvement
Iterate on features and edits to drive adoption and customer satisfaction
Collaborate with the sales and marketing team to produce sales collateral
Head and contribute to branding and material on the customer marketing website and PermitFlow software
Help us design a really amazing permitting product that is not only beautiful, but works and scales