Senior Product Designer, Internal Tools

Base Power Company•Austin, TX

19h•Onsite

About The Position

Base is seeking a Senior Product Designer to lead the user experience for their internal tools. This role involves designing software to enhance the efficiency and decision-making capabilities of Operations and Engineering teams. The designer will gain a deep understanding of user workflows through observation and user shadowing to proactively identify and address product improvement opportunities. The position emphasizes a systems-thinking approach, focusing on owning the design system, interaction patterns, and foundational elements that enable consistent, high-quality experiences across products with minimal design intervention in every implementation. Success is measured by the quality of created systems and their effectiveness in empowering others. The role also requires comfort with moving between design and code, utilizing AI coding tools for rapid prototyping, shipping production-ready UI, and continuous platform improvement.

Requirements

5+ years of experience designing digital products, with a portfolio demonstrating strong product thinking, interaction design, and visual craft.
Experience designing internal tools, operational software, or other workflow-heavy products.
Strong systems thinker who naturally looks beyond individual features to build reusable patterns, scalable frameworks, and durable product foundations.
Strong product instincts with the ability to identify problems, conduct user research, and turn insights into thoughtful product improvements.
Comfortable balancing multiple projects while bringing structure and clarity to ambiguous problems.
Experience building and maintaining design systems that help teams move faster while maintaining a high quality bar.
Comfortable using AI coding tools to prototype ideas, contribute production-ready UI, and collaborate directly in a frontend codebase through pull requests.
Strong understanding of modern product development, with the ability to work effectively across Design, Operations, and Engineering.
Excellent communication skills and a bias toward ownership.

Responsibilities

Design intuitive internal tools that improve workflows across Operations, Deployments, Growth, and other teams across Base.
Spend time with the people who use our software every day by shadowing workflows, interviewing users, and uncovering opportunities to improve the product.
Proactively identify product opportunities and propose thoughtful solutions based on user needs, operational challenges, and business impact.
Work across multiple efforts at once and drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces.
Own and evolve our internal design system, creating reusable components, interaction patterns, and documentation that scale across products.
Design systems that enable engineers, product managers, and AI coding tools to build consistent, high-quality products without requiring design involvement in every implementation.
Use AI coding tools to rapidly prototype ideas, contribute production-ready UI, and ship pull requests alongside engineering.
Partner closely with Operations and Engineering from early discovery through implementation, ensuring solutions are both thoughtful and practical.
Look for opportunities to replace one-off solutions with scalable systems that improve speed, consistency, and long-term maintainability.
Raise the quality bar across our internal products through thoughtful product design, strong visual craft, and a systems-first approach.