Product Designer

Adaptive•New York, NY

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Adaptive is a vertical AI company of 50, building the agentic operating system for the $2 trillion U.S. construction industry. We work with over 1,000 customers, partner with over 50 accounting firms, and have raised $26m from Emergence, a16z, and other top funds. We are hiring our second product designer to help shape the future of Adaptive. You'll drive the design of impactful, user-centric products that meet the real needs of small-business builders nationwide. Reporting to the Lead Designer, you'll partner day-to-day with a Product Manager and engineering counterparts to design and ship key product features — including the suite of AI agents we're building to automate construction back-office work. You'll define product experiences, contribute to our design system, and run user research to validate what we build.

Requirements

3–5 years of product design experience, ideally in SaaS or startup environments
Strong skills in UX/UI design, user research, and design systems
Demonstrated ability to own projects from concept to delivery
Excellent communication and storytelling, with the ability to collaborate across product and engineering
Comfort with fast-evolving processes and building in an AI-native product

Responsibilities

Design and ship new product features end-to-end, in close partnership with product and engineering
Participate in user research and usability testing to validate solutions and improve the experience
Contribute to and help evolve the design system so design stays consistent and scalable across the platform
Collaborate with stakeholders to align user needs, business goals, and product vision