Product Designer

Reference: 129697 Arda is seeking senior product designers to help build the future of manufacturing in the USA. If you're looking to solve hard problems that matter, own end-to-end workflows, and ship high-quality software that will define how things get made, we'd love to meet you! BLUFGreat role for an experienced (4+ years) product designer wanting to take on complex design challenges in a fast-paced startup environment. Should be able to own hard design problems independently at a high quality bar, bring systems thinking across design system + platform IA, and comfortable shipping in an AI-native, agentic workflow. Could be a designer from a company like Palantir, a high-velocity B2B/enterprise startup, or a similar environment where they've shipped software fast and grown quickly. Probably not: an agency designer, a pure-visual/brand designer, or an [exclusively] consumer/mobile app designer. Expected ActivitiesThis hire will be expected to engage flexibly across initiatives. Project execution — own the day-to-day of executing projects across feature sets, especially the challenging design problems, at a high quality bar with limited oversight. Design system management — contribute to maintaining and extending our component library (both atoms and bits), and help scale agentic design — rules, skills, etc. — for agents building Arda features. Platform design — information architecture, core patterns, and tending to the Arda design garden as a whole so individual features strengthen the system rather than fragment it. Ship in code — Arda designers work in an agentic, AI-native way and are comfortable shipping code. Not expected to always own end-to-end implementation, but should be fluent enough to prototype in code and contribute production changes rather than handing off static mocks. CharacteristicsSF or NYC-based — should be willing to travel a bit and interested in getting onsite, but no more than ~10%High agency / thrives with limited oversight — can be handed a hard, underspecified problem and drive it to a high-quality shipped outcome without close direction. Strong interaction design — Arda is tricky software with many surfaces and patterns; handles that gracefully with attention to state, flow, and edge cases. Systems thinking — understands how a design system and platform IA hold together, and designs individual features so they reinforce the whole. Strong taste and quality bar — sweats the details that make dense enterprise software feel clear and inevitable rather than complicated. Comfort with ambiguity — energized rather than stalled by open-ended, fast-moving problem spaces. Appetite to grow — we're in a brave new design world, and we'll need someone willing to reinvent their processes, workflow, etc. to accommodate an agentic worldPotential backgroundsProduct designer at a high-velocity B2B/enterprise startup who's owned complex, stateful surfaces end to endPalantir (or similar) designer used to shipping dense enterprise software fast, wanting more ownershipProbably not: agency designer, pure-visual/brand designer, or consumer/mobile app designerInterview processRound 1Pierce 30 min behavioral screenPierce 1 hr portfolio reviewRound 2Alex 1 hr behavioral screen2-day work trialWork trial that will revolve around a scoped but ambiguous design challenge Arda is seeking senior product designers to help build the future of manufacturing in the USA. If you're looking to solve hard problems that matter, own end-to-end workflows, and ship high-quality software that will define how things get made, we'd love to meet you! BLUFGreat role for an experienced (4+ years) product designer wanting to take on complex design challenges in a fast-paced startup environment. Should be able to own hard design problems independently at a high quality bar, bring systems thinking across design system + platform IA, and comfortable shipping in an AI-native, agentic workflow. Could be a designer from a company like Palantir, a high-velocity B2B/enterprise startup, or a similar environment where they've shipped software fast and grown quickly. Probably not: an agency designer, a pure-visual/brand designer, or an [exclusively] consumer/mobile app designer. Expected ActivitiesThis hire will be expected to engage flexibly across initiatives. Project execution — own the day-to-day of executing projects across feature sets, especially the challenging design problems, at a high quality bar with limited oversight. Design system management — contribute to maintaining and extending our component library (both atoms and bits), and help scale agentic design — rules, skills, etc. — for agents building Arda features. Platform design — information architecture, core patterns, and tending to the Arda design garden as a whole so individual features strengthen the system rather than fragment it. Ship in code — Arda designers work in an agentic, AI-native way and are comfortable shipping code. Not expected to always own end-to-end implementation, but should be fluent enough to prototype in code and contribute production changes rather than handing off static mocks. CharacteristicsSF or NYC-based — should be willing to travel a bit and interested in getting onsite, but no more than ~10%High agency / thrives with limited oversight — can be handed a hard, underspecified problem and drive it to a high-quality shipped outcome without close direction. Strong interaction design — Arda is tricky software with many surfaces and patterns; handles that gracefully with attention to state, flow, and edge cases. Systems thinking — understands how a design system and platform IA hold together, and designs individual features so they reinforce the whole. Strong taste and quality bar — sweats the details that make dense enterprise software feel clear and inevitable rather than complicated. Comfort with ambiguity — energized rather than stalled by open-ended, fast-moving problem spaces. Appetite to grow — we're in a brave new design world, and we'll need someone willing to reinvent their processes, workflow, etc. to accommodate an agentic worldPotential backgroundsProduct designer at a high-velocity B2B/enterprise startup who's owned complex, stateful surfaces end to endPalantir (or similar) designer used to shipping dense enterprise software fast, wanting more ownershipProbably not: agency designer, pure-visual/brand designer, or consumer/mobile app designerInterview processRound 1Pierce 30 min behavioral screenPierce 1 hr portfolio reviewRound 2Alex 1 hr behavioral screen2-day work trialWork trial that will revolve around a scoped but ambiguous design challenge