Description
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
| Location | CA |