Product Designer

GigSafe•Austin, TX

15d

About The Position

GigSafe is a contractor management platform built for gig and last-mile delivery operations. We are building infrastructure for the future of 1099 work that helps companies verify, manage, and pay independent contractors at scale. The 1099 economy is the fastest-growing segment of the American workforce, and it's been running on duct tape and spreadsheets. A credentialing gap or an uninsured worker is a serious liability that can shut down a business. This is a big problem. A large market. And we're early. Come build with us. For more information, visit gigsafe.com

Requirements

5-8 years of UX/UI or product design experience, with a portfolio of shipped software, not concept work.
Demonstrated fluency with AI design and prototyping tools as part of your everyday workflow. Be ready to walk us through how you used them on real work and what you produced faster because of it.
Strong interaction and visual craft: you can take a rough requirement to a clean, consistent, buildable screen without heavy art direction.
Experience designing for web and mobile applications with operational complexity – dashboards, queues, tables, forms, multi-step workflows.
Comfortable working from written specs and asking sharp questions when they're incomplete.
Strong in Figma (components, variants, auto layout). If you came up in Sketch, Framer, or Penpot, tell us why. We care that you can pick up our stack quickly.
Ability to manage several concurrent workstreams and ship on a regular cadence without heavy process.
You can clearly explain a design decision to an engineer or non-designer.

Nice To Haves

Experience in gig economy, contractor management, workforce, logistics, or other B2B operational software.
Prototyping in code (HTML/CSS, React, or AI-assisted code generation) to get closer to a real, testable artifact.
Experience building or maintaining a design system from scratch.
Familiarity with compliance-heavy or document-review interfaces.
Startup experience, especially as an early or sole designer.

Responsibilities

Translate product requirements into user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity interfaces ready for engineering handoff.
Build clickable prototypes quickly – using AI-assisted tooling wherever it speeds you up – so flows can be tested and decisions made before engineering time is spent.
Design for complex, data-dense workflows: onboarding queues, document and credential review, compliance status, exception handling, and admin tooling.
Maintain and extend GigSafe's component library and design standards so the product stays consistent as it grows.
Partner daily with Product and Engineering to scope what's feasible, pressure-test edge cases, and stay involved through implementation and QA.
Prepare specs, states, and assets — empty, loading, error, and permission states included — so engineers aren't guessing.
Run lightweight usability checks with internal operations staff and customers, and fold what you learn back into the designs.
Support marketing and sales with in-product screens and visuals when needed.