Senior Designer

Zoo • Los Angeles, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

We're on a mission to revolutionize the CAD industry by developing the world's most advanced hardware design infrastructure and tools. Mechanical CAD is in the dark ages, and hardware demands have outpaced today’s hardware design infrastructure. The industry is due for a refresh, and we're laying the foundation for a modern hardware design toolkit so that you can create new design tools never before possible. We are headquartered in Los Angeles, CA with both a local and remote team. We were founded and incubated by Embedded Ventures in 2021. We’re looking for curious, innovative, and ambitious self-starters to join our lean and growing team to help us bring our mission to life. We think you’ll thrive on our team if you’re: Curious at your core, with an eagerness to learn and do things differently Customer-focused, always thinking about ways to improve the user experience Able to operate autonomously and work asynchronously, while also being an effective team player. As a Senior Designer at Zoo, you will own design across our product experiences, core workflows, as well as our website, tutorials, and brand systems assets. This is a broad, high-impact role for a versatile designer who thrives moving between product design, web design, visual storytelling, and user education. You will help shape how customers experience Zoo at every stage: discovering the company, learning the platform, using complex technical tools, and engaging with the brand over time. Our products include Zoo Design Studio- our 3D CAD modeling app, Zookeeper- our AI agent, and infrastructure tools, so we need a designer who can bring clarity, usability, and visual excellence to highly sophisticated technology. You will partner closely with engineering and leadership to establish a world-class design standard across every touchpoint.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Marketing, Design, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years of experience in a broad design role spanning product design, web design, brand, or growth design for a technical product
• Strong portfolio demonstrating versatility across software products, websites, and visual design systems
• Exceptional UI/UX instincts with the ability to simplify complex workflows into intuitive experiences
• Professional expertise with Figma creating and maintaining design systems
• Experience using AI tools to automate design workflows
• Experience collaborating closely with engineering teams and shipping high-quality digital products
• Strong visual design skills including typography, layout, hierarchy, and brand consistency
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment with ambiguity and shifting priorities
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple parallel design workstreams

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing technical products such as developer tools, CAD software, 3D tools, or B2B SaaS platforms
• Experience creating tutorials, onboarding systems, or educational product content
• Familiarity with front-end technologies such as React or TypeScript
• Experience with motion design, illustration, or video content
• Interest in hardware, engineering, manufacturing, or computational design
• Experience working with open-source communities or technical users

Responsibilities

• Own our next phase of design across Zoo’s full ecosystem, including product, website, tutorials, documentation, brand, and marketing surfaces
• Design intuitive product experiences and workflows for complex technical tools
• Support website design and optimization, improving storytelling, conversion, visual polish, and brand consistency
• Create tutorials, onboarding flows, product education assets, and visual learning content that help users adopt the platform quickly
• Build, maintain, and evolve a scalable design system in Figma across product and web experiences
• Design wireframes, prototypes, polished UI, graphics, presentations, and launch assets as needed
• Partner closely with engineering to ensure designs are implemented with high quality and strong user experience standards
• Collaborate with leadership on brand direction, creative strategy, and company-wide visual identity
• Gather user feedback, run usability testing, and continuously improve experiences across customer touchpoints
• Document systems, workflows, and design processes to create leverage as the company scales
• Raise the quality bar across the company through strong taste, thoughtful execution, and user-centered thinking

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior