Technical Product Designer

CurbWaste•New York, NY

2d•Remote

About The Position

CurbWaste is a venture-backed, early-stage vertical SaaS company on a mission to modernize the waste and recycling industry. We are looking for a Technical Product Designer to join a small, high-impact design team. This is a Product Design role first, where you will own real feature work end to end, from concept through shipped experience. The unique aspect of this role is the comfort with front-end code (React, component-based systems) to partner directly with engineering on our design system and contribute to our “design-to-code” workflows. You will act as a design-side technical partner, helping to bridge the gap between design and development.

Requirements

3+ years as a product/UX designer or design engineer, with a portfolio showing real shipped product work, not just concepts.
Comfortable reading and writing basic front-end code (HTML/CSS/JS or React) — enough to prototype, contribute to a design system, or have a real conversation with engineers about implementation.
Strong craft fundamentals: interaction design, visual design, and the judgment to know when detail matters and when it doesn't.
Self-sufficient and comfortable in a small team where you'll wear a few hats.
Experience working directly with a design system or component library team.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI-assisted design/developer tooling (i.e. MCPs, design-harnesses, etc.).
Experience at a B2B SaaS or vertical software company.
Experience with customer or user research.

Responsibilities

Own product design work for one of our Pod’s — partnering with Product and Engineering on discovery, concepting, prototyping, and testing.
Help strengthen and extend our design system alongside another designer, including contributing directly by designing and potentially implementing components where useful.
Pair with Head of Design to explore design infrastructure that makes it easier for Design, Product, and Engineering to stay in sync (e.g., AI-enabled design workflows, design-to-code processes).
Help set up the Design team to pick up frontend-adjacent work that often falls between design and engineering — polish, small UI fixes that rarely get prioritized, prototyping in code.
Participate in customer calls and research alongside the rest of the Design team.