Contract Senior Product Designer

Job Responsibilities:

• End-to-End Design: Lead ideation, wireframing, prototyping, and high-fidelity visual design for complex interfaces that blend graph networks and interactive maps. Collaborate with user researchers to validate assumptions and iterate based on qualitative and quantitative feedback.
• Design System Contribution: Contribute to and extend our shared design system, ensuring consistency across graph, map, and risk-analysis workflows. Define new components, patterns, and guidelines that support scalability and accessibility.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product managers and engineers to translate user needs and business goals into clear design requirements and stories. Present design rationale and trade-offs to senior leadership, advocating for user-centered solutions.
• Craft & Aesthetics: Bring “great taste” to every pixel: curate visual language, color, typography, and motion that elevate our brand and delight users. Stay abreast of design trends to keep Sayari’s products feeling fresh, polished, and innovative.

Skills & Experience:

• Experience: 6+ years in product design, with a strong portfolio demonstrating data-intensive or mapping interfaces.
• Communication: Outstanding presentation and communication skills, with the ability to distill complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives for diverse audiences.
• Design Sense: A proven eye for detail, color, layout, and motion, able to articulate design decisions that balance beauty and usability. Collaboration: Strong communication skills and experience working in agile, cross-functional teams.
• User Advocacy: Familiarity with conducting or partnering on user research; ability to translate insights into design outcomes.
• Growth Mindset: Eagerness to experiment with emerging AI tools, continuously refining your craft and sharing learnings.
• Domain Interest: Bonus points for prior exposure to supply chain risk, third-party risk, or enterprise SaaS environments.
• Technical Skills: Expert in Figma (incl. AI plugins), proficient with generative AI tools and vibe-coding workflows. Proficiency with industry-standard design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Vercel, emerging AI prototyping solutions). Deep working on B2B SaaS platform teams, geospatial tools, and design system frameworks.
• Analytical Mindset: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, especially in understanding and visualizing complex data sets related to geography, relationships, and risk.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Design, HCI, Interaction Design, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).