About Transect
Transect is a B2B SaaS startup on a mission to accelerate renewable energy development. Our platform helps solar, wind, BESS, and data center developers discover and assess sites faster - turning months of environmental and regulatory due diligence into hours. We move fast, we care deeply about our users, and we believe great design is a competitive advantage.
The Role
We're hiring a Product Designer to own design end-to-end across our platform. This is a sole-designer role: you'll be the only dedicated designer at the company, working directly with product and engineering to take features from early concept through shipped UI. You'll join at a pivotal moment - we're expanding platform coverage across a broader range of our customers' workflows, and exploring how AI can be woven directly into the product experience. You'll have real influence over what all of that looks like.
This role reports to our Director of Product.
What You'll Do
Own design end-to-end: User experience, user interface, information architecture, and interaction design, for our complex, data-dense B2B SaaS platform
Talk directly to customers to deeply understand their pain points, mental models, and jobs-to-be-done, developing strong user empathy for the industries and personas we serve
Balance speed with craft - know when to move fast with low-fidelity wireframes and when a polished mockup is what the situation demands
Manage and evolve our design system to ensure visual and interaction consistency across the platform
Help build a culture of AI curiosity on the product team - share learnings, experiment openly, and help identify where AI can meaningfully accelerate our design and product workflows
Support occasional creative projects requested by Marketing or other teams that fall outside core UX design but leverage your broader creative skillset, such as producing product highlight videos for the website
What We're Looking For
Minimum 4 years of product design experience, with real range across both research/IA and visual/UI craft - we need a strong generalist, not a specialist in one half of the process
Startup or small-team experience, ideally as a sole or founding designer - you know how to prioritize ruthlessly and move without a design team backing you up
Experience designing complex, data-dense B2B software, including dashboards, multi-step workflows, interactive map-based tools, and multiple application states
Exceptional communication skills - you can articulate design rationale clearly and persuasively to product, engineering, and leadership
Collaborative by default - you build trust with cross-functional partners and know how to give and receive design feedback well
Strong proficiency with Figma, including component libraries, variables, design tokens, prototyping, and maintaining shared design-system patterns
Ability to understand technical constraints, ask the right questions, and work with engineers to identify solutions that balance user needs, delivery effort, maintainability, and product quality
Genuine curiosity about AI in product design - either hands-on experience shipping AI-powered features, or a strong point of view on the tradeoffs involved
Comfort and confidence operating in a fully remote yet fast-paced environment
Nice to Have
Experience or interest in climate tech, energy, infrastructure, or geospatial/mapping products
Experience designing for both novice and power users within the same product
Experience using AI-assisted design and prototyping tools responsibly to accelerate exploration, documentation, and collaboration without sacrificing design judgment or consistency
Familiarity with front-end development concepts such as HTML, CSS, responsive layouts, component-based frameworks, and the practical constraints of web applications
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive salary
Equity
Employee health, dental, and vision insurance, plus basic life, short-term disability, long-term disability, and AD&D. 100% coverage, starting at the beginning of the next month after your start date
Access to a 401(k) company-sponsored retirement account
Access to other voluntary, employee-paid benefits may be made available and are determined annually
Flexible work schedule and vacation policy
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