Pickle is on the hunt for a dynamic and driven Contract Product Designer to revolutionize the future of warehouse automation. In this role, you'll help build the end-to-end UX for our robotic truck-unloading system, translating complex hardware interactions into intuitive controls and touchscreen experiences. From deeply understanding loading dock workflows to delivering polished, production-ready UI, you'll tackle meaningful design challenges that bridge the physical and digital worlds. If you thrive on solving real-world design challenges in a collaborative, fast-paced startup environment, we'd love to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
Understand and document user workflows, target use environments, and typical user profiles
Maintain a UI design system compatible with the company's brand guidelines and culture
Create high-fidelity wireframes for a touchscreen interfacesthat controls a robotic truck unloader
Design reusable components, icons, and animations for our app
Work with product management to develop clickthrough prototypes that can be used to test with new users
Work closely with our frontend engineers to ensure proper implementation of designs
Travel occasionally to customer warehouses to test new design ideas
Skills and Experience:
5+ years of experience designing UI for mobile devices ,web applications, or touchscreen interfaces, including industrial or ruggedized display environments
Proficiency in Figma for wireframing, prototyping, and delivering production-ready design specs
Experience with design tools such as Sketch, Adobe XD, or other visual design and prototyping tools
Experience using software tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, or After Effects to generate icons, illustrations, and animations in .png, .svg, and Lottie formats
A portfolio demonstrating a solid understanding of data-driven and user-centric UX
Strong understanding of UX design principles and methodologies
Experience conducting user tests and leveraging qualitative and quantitative data to support design decisions
Some experience with hardware-based products is preferred
Some experience with robots or robotic hardware products is a plus
Knowledge of warehouse operations is a plus
Top Skills
What We Do
We believe the best working experience is one where machines do the heavy lifting and people do the problem solving. Our robots work with people in the messy world of warehouse loading docks, reducing the real physical pain of unloading trucks and containers radically amplifying what each person can accomplish. Founded by an exceptional cast of robotics and machine learning experts, Pickle creates robots that work alongside people in the very messy world of the loading dock, reducing the backbreaking human effort that goes into getting your online orders to your door.
